Tag: therapy
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Therapy Apps
Read more: Therapy AppsFrom NPR: Mental Health Apps: Like A ‘Therapist In Your Pocket’. [On one app,] [t]hroughout the day at random times, a “mood map” pops up on a user’s cell phone screen. “People drag a little red dot around that screen with their finger to indicate their current mood”…Users also can chart their energy levels, sleep…
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Passionate Marriage (in 6 Simple Steps)
Read more: Passionate Marriage (in 6 Simple Steps)Couples’ lit spotlight: Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships, by sex/relationship therapist, David Schnarch. The book samples actual sex therapy sessions to make its case. Don’t care to read 400 pages about how differentiation? Try the six-point plan linked from Schnarch’s website, posted here minus the explanations: Operate from the Best in Yourself. Sustain…
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Choice v. Anxiety
Read more: Choice v. AnxietyThe client knows best–studies catching up: Flexible Treatment Intervention Associated With Greater Improvement In Anxiety Symptoms (Medical News Today).
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Tourette’s Therapy
Read more: Tourette’s TherapyFrom the Los Angeles Times: Behavioral therapy effective in treating Tourette syndrome: The therapy, called comprehensive behavioral intervention for tics, has several elements. The key component, habit reversal training, helps patients become more aware of the urge to tic, then teaches them to engage in a voluntary behavior — rhythmic breathing, perhaps — that competes…
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Journaling and Chronic Pain
Read more: Journaling and Chronic PainA new page on the TMS Wiki details various approaches to journaling. They’re up there to help people with chronic pain, but journaling can be a big help to just about anyone. Among the approaches on the page: List Making, Spider Writing, Free Writing, Unsent Letters, and Dialogue. Several workbooks, which’ll help you through the…