Acts of Kindness That Heal the World

My husband shared this remarkable story with me, and I wanted to pass it on to all of you. One of his employees, we’ll call her Sally, was shopping in...

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Incorporating Yoga into Therapy

by Stacey Hellman, LCSW-C Though I’m not a certified yoga instructor, I’ve had some formal training with using yoga in therapy as well as many years of personal practice and...

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Recent Mall Shooting and Acute Stress Disorder

The recent, senseless shooting at the Columbia Mall in Maryland took the lives of two innocent young people, injured five bystanders, and potentially traumatized countless others. The idea that an...

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New Year’s Resolutions: Outsourcing your Willpower

If you read the statistics on the number of people who actually succeed in achieving their New Year’s resolutions you will quickly lose hope! The literature says that most of...

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The Importance of a Professional Will

For those of us who work in private practice and love what we do it’s hard to imagine not doing it. It’s even more impossible to imagine our own sudden...

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Speaking up About Bullying

Jonathan Martin is a 312 pound, 6’5” tackler for the Miami Dolphins. And yet he was relentlessly subjected to bullying that included racial slurs, intense verbal abuse, harassment, threats against...

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Men and Shame

by Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA Working with shame is one of the most important emotions to process in therapy. So many presenting problems have an additional underlying layer of shame...

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To Refer Out or Not to Refer Out, That is the Question!

by Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA As a consultant to many beginning and seasoned mental health professionals, I am amazed by how often ethical concerns find their way into the clinical...

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The Adolescent Brain

Currently, I have two cases in my practice that prove that sometimes adolescents struggle even when they come from loving and safe families.  It’s not always the case that kids...

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A New Way to Honor 9/11

We just passed the 12th anniversary of one of the most tragic days in recent history. Although most of us can’t recall what we had for breakfast a few days...

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