by Patricia Smucker | Jul 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
I learn as much from my clients as they learn from me, which is why my life is richer and more fulfilling because of the work I do. Recently, a client returned to treatment to focus on an eating disorder. I had already successfully treated her for an anxiety disorder...
by Patricia Smucker | Jul 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
I was about 25 years old when I first learned the term anxiety. Until that time I was not aware such a feeling existed. Fear I knew well. Having grown up in a family where my father was chronically ill and eventually died when I was in 10th grade. The uncertainty of...
by Patricia Smucker | Jul 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Clients have come to therapy and asked me what the difference is between feeling sad and being depressed. When I hear that question, I often come to find the sadness they are feeling is not so much depression, but a grieving experience. Grief is a process – a series...
by Patricia Smucker | Feb 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Personality is the way a person thinks and acts in the world. There are many personality traits. No two people have the same traits in the same way. All personality traits are helpful in the right context, but some people have such limited traits that they do not have...
by Patricia Smucker | Jan 14, 2020 | CBT
In Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) the focus is on understanding your internal processes. In traditional therapy the focus was on the past experiences. In CBT a therapist will help you understand how your past experiences and the beliefs and emotions created in...
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