Your Brain Has a Love Map
When people say they have a “type” in romantic relationships, they’re not just being picky—they may be revealing something fundamental about how the brain encodes attraction and attachment.
Attachment Isn’t Just for Babies
Most people think of attachment as something that concerns babies and their mothers, a set of behaviors designed to keep helpless infants close to their caregivers. But decades of research in developmental psychology and neuroscience have revealed that attachment doesn’t disappear after childhood — it simply transforms.
Why Do Therapists Focus So Much on Feelings?
We tend to think of feelings as fleeting, subjective experiences—mere reactions to the world around us and perhaps even distractions. But emotions, moods, and other subjective feelings are far more than momentary states or ; they are central to understanding why we act the way we do.
What Couples Typically Do – and Do Not – Bring to Couple’s Therapy
Couples therapy is often seen as a last resort—a way to mend a relationship teetering on the edge of collapse. However, many couples come to therapy without fully considering what they might best bring with them beyond just grievances and frustrations.
Therapy Can Promote Your Affective Health and Lower Your Risks
If you’ve been thinking about starting therapy but are unsure if it’s the right fit for you, know that you’re not alone in feeling this way—and therapy can offer a powerful path to significant improvements.
Dealing with Your Stress-Induced Insomnia: Ways to Help You Sleep Better
It is 3 a.m. in the morning and Sarah is still wide awake. If she was in college and did not have class until the afternoon or it was the weekend, this would not be as much of an issue; however, it is actually Tuesday night (Wednesday morning, really), and she has to be at […]
Anxiety Management: Techniques You Can Easily Use
Anxiety Management Techniques You Can Easily Use From 40, 50 and 60 hour work weeks to shuttling kids from soccer practice to school to recitals and more to dealing with personal and social commitments, we are pulled in what feels like an infinite number of directions at all times. Unfortunately, American culture and society has […]
Overcoming Back To School Jitters and Job Training Anxieties
In today’s society, Americans face a large variety of stresses and anxieties in their lives, from financially-related stress factors to medical issues. However, two of the most common things that cause people to seek the help of an anxiety therapist are school and work. While these stressors can affect people at any point in their […]
What Is Biofeedback?
Biofeedback is a technique that trains people to improve their health by controlling certain bodily processes that normally happen involuntarily, such as heart rate, blood pressure, muscle tension, and skin temperature. Electrodes attached to your skin measure these processes and display them on a monitor. With help from a biofeedback therapist, you can learn to […]