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The Importance of “Selfishness”

Have you ever felt guilty - like you weren’t doing enough for the people in your life? Are you the type to feel bad if you can’t attend a birthday party, or stay late to help a colleague, or return a phone call promptly?  If this is...

         Is “no” a word you have difficulty using with most people in your life?  Do you often stay at work late?  Do you rarely take your allotted breaks?  Do you continuously pay your adult child’s rent?  Are you doing most of the...

So as a psychologist who specializes in anxiety, the presenting problem of a lot of my clients is, you guessed it, anxiety.  Therefore, as you can imagine, I often engage in standard anxiety treatment that is CBT in nature and composed of breathing techniques and thought restructuring....

          Social anxiety, however common, is one of the most difficult anxiety disorders to treat.  My practice has informed me that it is, also, one of the most misjudged and misunderstood disorders I have ever diagnosed. Essentially, social anxiety is a...