by Dr Aletta | Apr 29, 2013 | Anxiety, Self-Esteem, Video
Has this ever happened to you? It’s a perfectly good day but you are worried about something. That little worry sets off a chain reaction so it gets bigger and bigger until it becomes a huge, all-encompassing giant monster of anxiety! Here’s an example:... 
by Dr Aletta | Oct 12, 2011 | Anxiety, Self-Esteem
Do you ever wonder how your therapist does it? If you are a therapist, do you ever have a day when it takes everything in you not to reach over and slap your patient silly? Or raise a white flag in defeat? Occasionally people ask me, “How do you listen to... 
by Dr Aletta | Nov 19, 2009 | Mental Health, Relationships, Self-Esteem
Great name, right? Project Happily Ever After, a website/blog run by Alisa Bowman, a professional writer, was brought to my attention by a reader of this blog. Alisa's readers love her blog about her marriage and life with her family because it's fresh and... 
by Dr Aletta | Nov 17, 2009 | Mental Health, Self-Esteem
The graduate school I went to, the Derner Institute at Adelphi University, is a professional school that teaches psychoanalytic, psychodynamic psychotherapy. It wasn’t until my first post-doctoral job that I learned about cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and... 
by Dr Aletta | Oct 19, 2009 | Mental Health, Self-Esteem
Around this time of year I begin to hear from people who have trouble with what we call Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). “I always have trouble this time of year. It’s the season. I can’t take it.” What distinguishes SAD from regular...
