Therapy and Buddhism

← How Ratios Can Help Your Relationship Acceptance → Therapy and BuddhismMy office and my home are decorated with pictures and statues of the Buddha. I’m often asked why I surround myself with these images. I am a student of Buddhism and I have...

How Ratios Can Help Your Relationship

← Anxiety is a Symptom Therapy and Buddhism → How Ratios Can Help Your RelationshipA ratio is defined as a proportion: the relation between things with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree. According to multiple studies the ratio that...

Anxiety is a Symptom

← The Complexities of Body Image How Ratios Can Help Your Relationship → Anxiety is a Symptom: NOT the ProblemI see many clients who are experiencing anxiety and they want it to stop. Many of them come to my therapy office due to physical symptoms such as...

The Complexities of Body Image

← What's That Sound?! Anxiety is a Symptom → The Complexities of Body ImageI hear many different relationships that people have with their bodies, their nourishment, and their lifestyles. When one of these relationships is out of balance it often causes...

What’s That Sound?!

← Faulty Foundation The Complexities of Body Image → What’s That Sound?!Our minds determine much of our experience. Here’s my own story of the mind-body connection to illustrate this point: My husband and I moved to Santa Cruz from San Francisco...

Faulty Foundation

← The Limits of Fear What's That Sound?! → Faulty FoundationSometimes after working with clients for a few sessions they ask me why their life is getting worse instead of better. For example, a client might come in to my office because she is...