Bipolar Disorder
In recent years there has been increased attention in the popular media to bipolar disorder.
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What Is Telehealth Therapy, How Effective Is It, and Is It Right for You?
Telehealth refers to the practice of seeing any doctor or health care professional using phone or videoconferencing.
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Research and Training at Portland Psychotherapy
Portland Psychotherapy is a clinic, research and training center.
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Rather than dispose of the barriers to our dreams…
Quote by Peter McWilliams
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If you’re brave enough to say goodbye…
Quote by Paulo Coelho
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Blue light at night is bad
We have known or suspected for quite some time that there are significant harmful health and environmental consequences associated with excessive light use at night, especially blue-rich light.
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Article: My Secret Life as a Skin Picker
One of the problems I specialize in working with is repetitive skin picking (also known as excoriation or dermatillomania).
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Misophonia: what the heck is it and what’s a trigger?
Misophonia is a condition in which a person has an automatic, unpleasant internal reaction to specific sounds.
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Huffington Post Article on Hair Pulling and Skin Picking
One of my specialties is working with people who struggle with repetitive hair pulling (called trichotillomania) and/or skin picking (called dermatillomania or excoriation). Individuals with these conditions often do damage to their appearance.
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Research graveyard may come to life
It’s an amazing day for scientific research!
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New Law in Oregon: Your Rights to Bereavement Leave
People who experience the loss of a loved one are often tasked with managing life insurance and legal issues, resolving financial paperwork, planning a funeral, and sorting through their loved one’s belongings.
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Good Grief: Before asking how to get over your grief, ask whether you should.
Sometimes people aren’t very understanding of the pain of grief.
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How to avoid jet lag while travelling
For many years, it has been known that the effective use of light therapy and sunglasses can help you avoid jet lat and adjust more rapidly to a new time zone.
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Recovery from Schizophrenia? Yes, it’s Possible!
If you live in a major city you have probably encountered a person who is dressed strangely, mumbling to himself, not making eye contact, and perhaps pacing back and forth or engaging in some other repetitive behavior.
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Spoiler Alert: Spoilers Don’t Spoil
Have you ever had the experience of learning the ending of a book, movie, or TV show that you had really wanted to read/watch and saying to yourself, “AARGH—it’s ruined for me!”?
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Aimee Mullins on the Beauty of Adversity (and Human Cheetah Legs)
As a therapist, I sit face to face every day with people’s suffering.
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The Courage to Survive, Thrive, and Tell About It: Marsha Linehan’s Journey
Marsha Linehan, Ph.D. is easily one of the most influential psychologists of the past thirty years.
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On the Virtues of Being Wrong
Take a moment and consider, what are you wrong about right now?
