Mental Disorders

How to Know If You Have a Good Therapist

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Clinical Researchers, Clinicians, Evidence-Based Psychotherapy, Mental Disorders, psychological flexibility, Relationships /

When you think about visiting a therapist for the first time, you might feel quite uncomfortable. After all, why should you tell a virtual stranger the most intimate details of your life – things you haven’t even told your spouse, or your closest friends? What, are you going to be asked to open up about […]

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The Most Important Skill Set in Mental Health

Anxiety, Depression, Health, Mental Disorders, Mindfulness, Pain, psychological flexibility /

Why does psychotherapy work? Until relatively recently, many scientists studying methods of improving mental and behavioral health have delayed answering that question. Instead, they argued, it’s better first to ask if a method works, and when we know that it does, then we can ask why.  It’s not an irrational strategy, but as the decades

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