Recently, I was working with a client who was struggling with a tendency to override her intuition whenever she needed to make important decisions. She was ruminating about whether to go to a dinner party she was invited to because her ex-husband was going to be there. She really didn’t seem to want to go, [...]
If you are parenting a highly sensitive child (and so many children and adolescents seem to fall into this category these days), you might find this excerpt from my recent book chapter relevant and useful regarding how to think about and work with your child or adolescent's struggles. The chapter was published in "Obsessive [...]
Hidden figures: a somatic and relational approach to healing ocd
Because many people have a hard time jumping into Exposure and Response Prevention treatment in addressing their OCD symptoms, I have developed a way of working that often precedes, sometimes bypasses and/ or modifies the need for exposure treatment and I have had a lot of success working in this way. My approach is integrative [...]
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It’s that time of year again when many of us think of something new we can take on, be it a new pattern or goal like losing weight, sitting down to write that novel, eating healthier or being kinder to our loved ones. The new year is a great inspiration for starting over or trying [...]
When you’re doing any kind of personal work on yourself, sometimes it’s easy to forget to give yourself credit for your hard work. Sometimes we look only outside ourselves hoping other people in our lives will notice the work we’re doing and support us for doing it but we fail to see that WE can [...]
Stacey Klein, LCSW
1398 Solano Avenue
Albany, California 94706
www.eastbayareapsychotherapy.com.com
Welcome to my blog where I share insights and tips distilled from the worlds of psychology, eastern and western philosophy (including Buddhism, Judaism, Taoism, Kabbalah), my experience as a psychotherapist, meditator, and my ongoing curiosity about the art of being a human being.
