Being constantly on the go, which drives others crazy, can make social outings complicated and can interfere with your work. If you have ADHD as an adult, you may have found that medication may help but just doesn’t do enough to completely control the situation.
A new study in the Journal of American Medical Association suggests that Cognitive Behaviour Therapy can be helpful for coping with symptoms of ADHD. This form of counselling helps you identify thoughts and behaviours that are counterproductive, provides training in planning, problem solving, reducing distractions and thinking more in healthy ways.
The researchers found that those who received Cognitive Behaviour Therapy improved significantly by the end of 12 sessions. Improvement was maintained well after 12months too. [click to continue…]
If you are going through a really sad time, a period of unspeakable pain, you may be hurting from the cruel taunts of others and are confused or lost, there is help. By just looking around you in nature can take you out of your self imposed mind torture.
Eckhart Tolle describes the flower as the ” enlightenment of plants’. Seeing their beauty can awaken you to their essential inner being , their true nature. “They are like messengers from another realm” with their fragrance “from the realm of spirit”. An unexplainable happiness, amazement and joy overwhelms us when we really look at a flower. [click to continue…]
Often clients will come to their first appointment, anticipating instant remedies, the new miracle pill once assigned to the doctors. “Just give me some techniques to cope and I’ll be fine!” they cry. It’s true that Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is well known for its effective intervention techniques.
However, its really important and it’s an essential part of this approach, to take the time initially, to develop a working concept about you as a particular individual. CBT starts with having a concept that ties a cognitive behavioural theory with your unique psychological makeup. [click to continue…]
For those of you who know of people who have been in psychotherapy for years, yet still can’t get over their anger at their parents or find a healthy relationship. You may be asking “so why go to a Psychologist?” It may be useful to know what is happening in the realm of help and Cognitive behaviour therapy.
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Many people come to me complaining of insomnia and inability to sleep. When it starts to affect your concentration and even getting yourself to work, it’s generally accepted as serious enough to call in the counsellors. Better sleep keeps the body healthier and the mind more alerts (Counselling Northern Beaches).
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If you’re experiencing anxiety to the point of being nervous all the time, overwhelming depression that you can’t even get out of bed, resorting to addictive behaviours as eating not because you’re hungry but for comfort or becoming so scared or fearful that you avoid all company, help can be there for you. Psychotherapeutic treatments such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is a way for you to get through your difficulty and improve your situation.
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Many answers to man’s most acute problems have been given in dreams. Freud , Adler and Jung , all distinguished psychologists and psychiatrists have studied the symbols portrayed in dreams. The meaning of these symbols are personal and apply to each individual; the same symbol appearing to another member of the family or friend may have a completely different meaning.
It is believed that your dreams are projections of your subconscious mind, and have been known to warn people of impending dangers regarding investments, journeys and marriage. [click to continue…]
Did you see that programme on daytime TV where a reallly overweight person is matched with a really skinny person and then they swap diets? The sight of those two extremes facing each other was quite confronting. It was interesting to find out how the attractive thin person with a ” to die for figure” was actually causing harm to her joints and other organs because she avoided the carbs in an effort to stay model thin. [click to continue…]
From Xanax to Xanadu, panic attacks to “Massive Attack”, the effects of crowded urban stress on suicide rates, the culpability of music on a teenage gun toting rampage -
Psychologists are asked to solve it all ! They are the new high priest-confessor, shaman , detective, doctor, scientist, judge and jury rolled into one. Dysfunctional behavior is the new “norm”. [click to continue…]
I had a real wake up call this morning with the news of the Malaysian earthquake! Luckily the tsunami wasn’t coming , though I had my evacuation plan all ready , we were half way up the mountain already camped up next to the pool.
I had finally ditched my usual crack-the- bones chiropractic treatment after no improvement after one year and ran into a chiropractic friend who uses spinal network analysis. I was ready and open to something new. I continued my search for the meaning of healing. [click to continue…]