Will Baum, LCSW

NYT:  Following a Script to Escape a Nightmare.

In recent years, nightmares have increasingly been viewed as a distinct disorder, and researchers have produced a growing body of empirical evidence that this kind of cognitive therapy can help reduce their frequency and intensity, or even eliminate them.

The treatments are controversial. Some therapists, particularly Jungian analysts, take issue with changing nightmares’ content, arguing that dreams send crucial messages to the waking mind.

Happy to announce that I’m now seeing clients in Los Feliz, 90027.  In addition to the therapy offices in Silver Lake and Beverly Hills, I’ve now got office space on a nice, tree lined street just off Hillhurst.  Same therapy, same therapist; extra location.

Please call of write if you’d like to arrange an appointment.

I’ve got a prime time therapy hour available at the Silver Lake office: Tuesdays at 6:30pm.  The office is at 4001 1/2 Sunset Blvd., 90027 (Sunset Junction). Write or call to talk and arrange a first appointment.

Nearing 100 posts on this blog, I’m going to begin adding a few entries now and then with an eye toward search engine results.  An experiment.  Hope they won’t be too distracting.  Things like, “Los Angeles Therapist.”

I am a Los Angeles therapist, in case you’re finding this site for the first time.  I work out of two offices, one in Beverly Hills (Robertson and Olympic) and one in Silver Lake (Sunset Junction).  Please call or write to arrange a free 15-minute consultation and first appointment.

Maybe this is for therapists only, but take a look at Wikipedia’s long list of psychotherapies if you’ve got some time to kill and some curiosity about the different approaches to therapy that are out there.

The list goes from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (which I’ m a fan of) to Wilderness Therapy (haven’t tried).

The list skips several letters, so if you want to make a name in the therapy world, come up with something that starts with K, X, Y, or Z–you’ll stand alone.  Zootherapy, anyone?

Skiing, pizza, and group–program for teens profiled in the Calgary Herald:

There’s no texting on skis. No distractions. Just fresh air and the challenge of learning a new sport. So-called “bad kids” can leave their reputation behind at school and forge a better one in the outdoors.

That’s the theory behind the Adventure Therapy program, which an Airdrie high school counsellor has developed to help small groups of students with behaviour problems become more confident and socially adapted…