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It was June of 1992 and the Portland Trailblazers were pulling ahead of the Chicago Bulls in game 1 of the NBA Championship. As a Bulls fan, I was flat out nervous because it seemed as if the game...
Just a few weeks ago as many of us were doing life as usual, it seemed as if the stability of our world was fairly certain.
The economy was roaring. The stock market was strong. Everything seemed...
You have two choices: You can hire the Valedictorian of the senior class at Harvard or the guy who just barely scraped by at the bottom of Harvard’s latest graduating class. What’s it...
Can beauty come out of the ashes?
That’s a question many of us are asking as we look squarely at the devastation the Coronavirus has wrought in our country. It really does seem like the...
One of the most interesting aspects of a psychology practice is the ebb and flow of my patients’ emotional regulation. There are times when people have personal situations and even biological...
Let’s imagine that a client named Linda walks into my clinical office complaining about emotional instability and difficulty with interpersonal relationships. As I conduct my...
As COVID 19 continues to linger across our nation, the effects of the virus are becoming clear. While the physical toll the virus takes on those afflicted is obvious, we are starting to see...
In the next few weeks, children all over the country will be returning to school during one of the most unusual and challenging times of our generation. Although there is still a debate on...
It was Game 1 of the 1995 NBA Eastern Conference Finals and the Indiana Pacers were down 6 points to the New York Knicks with just 18 seconds left. It looked like Reggie Miller’s Pacers...
I want to tell you about three conversations I have had over the last several weeks that capture the current spirit of our times in fairly dramatic fashion. The first conversation was with a...
2021 – The Year of Redemption
Most of us have known someone who has been through a significant trauma that caused symptoms of PTSD and many of us have even experienced this kind of trauma...
A client, we will call Timothy, made an initial appointment with me at Florida Counseling Centers several years ago to talk about his struggle with symptoms of anxiety and depression....
