Julie Orlov, LCSW, MSW
Julie Orlov has devoted 24 years to helping people transform their lives through her work as a psychotherapist, executive coach, trainer, speaker, and consultant. She is the author of The Pathway to Love: Create Intimacy and Transform Your Relationships through Self-Discovery and remains passionate about helping people create relationships in their lives that work. She holds a master's degree in Organizational Leadership from Chapman University, a master's degree in Social Work from University of Southern California, and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from University...
How A Secure Relationship Can Help Your Depression
Relationships with a depressed partner are often characterized by negative communication, blame, withdrawal, irritability...
Our Emotional Lives
As we consider our emotional lives, it is a real challenge to try to understand what we mean when we talk about emotions.
Allison Cohen, MA, MFT
Allison Cohen works to bring out couples and individuals 'best selves' by providing solutions, tools, empathy and education to alleviate the stresses of even the toughest "Life Issues." Starting her career as a Peer Counselor in college, she first pursued professional ambitions through work in mental health clinics and family centers. She quickly learned that the client is the expert on themselves, but that emotional roadblocks impeded their successes. From that point forward, she become dedicated to learning everything possible to help my clients...
Andrea Mathews, LPC, NCC
Andrea Mathews is an author, psychotherapist, corporate trainer, and motivational and inspirational speaker. She has over 30 years of experience in the mental health field, the last 14 of those in a thriving private practice, providing Transpersonal Therapy and Cognitive Therapy to individuals and couples on a variety of issues. Cognitive Therapy is an approach in which one works with thoughts, self-talk and beliefs to change patterns that are not working and develop new ways of interacting with self and others. Transpersonal Therapy assists...
Vickie Chang, Ph.D.
Dr. Vickie Chang is an integrative therapist with extensive training in cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic approaches to treatment. Cognitive behavioral therapy works on identifying critical thoughts about yourself that can interfere with how you feel and behave. In therapy Chang practice ways to challenge these thoughts and to develop more supportive ways of relating to yourself. The behavioral aspect of this treatment focuses on changing behaviors to improve well-being, for instance through taking care of your body or learning to be assertive. Psychodyamic therapy...
Caitlin
One of the Davies’ daughters suffers from a severe form of depression. She was always called the family’s “little sunshine” and was a kind and thoughtful, happy and outgoing, and very talkative young child. In middle school she became more anxious and withdrawn. The summer before 9th grade – facing a large class size of 750 – she began to express much concern about attending high school, and to first show signs that later were realized as depression, but then were believed to be...
Suicide Risk and Prevention Across Generations
Suicide ranks as the eleventh leading cause of death in the United States.
Podcast: To Therapy or Not to Therapy?
"People don't want to see a therapist because they think that means they're crazy. But, who decided that?"
~Gabe Howard
Today, we discuss the pros and cons of therapy. What it is, why it works, why it doesn't work, and every tangent in between. Spoiler Alert: One host loves therapy and the other host doesn't love therapy. Listen in now.
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About the Hosts of A Bipolar, A...