When you’re suffering from OCD, from a mindfulness perspective you are very identified with certain thoughts you have to the exclusion of others. In fact, not only are you identified with your obsessive thoughts, you may in general tend to be more aware of your thoughts than you are of other aspects of your being [...]
Today’s tool for coping with OCD might provoke criticism from those who believe OCD is exclusively a biological disease that should be treated in a solely behavioral and non exploratory context. However, those of us who practice CBT know that what really needs to happen for you to soften your OCD patterns is for you [...]
This week I will be blogging about how to cope with OCD. Each day I will share tools that support the cognitive behavioral approach of ERP (exposure and response prevention) derived from all the different approaches I incorporate when I treat OCD in children, adolescents and adults including Cognitive Behavioral, Mindfulnes, Somatic, Psychodynamic and Gestalt [...]
This blog is dedicated to all my single friends and all singles who have struggled with their status at some point in their singlehood. In the landscape of spring there is neither better Nor worse; The flowering branches grow naturally, some long, some short. -Taoist Poem Over the past few months, [...]
I recently heard an interview on NPR with the film director and documentarian Werner Herzog whose newest film “Into the Abyss” focuses on the ripple effects of criminal acts on both the perpetrators and victims of murder. In the interview, Herzog says that when you ask inmates who have been sentenced to life [...]
We have a way of seeing ourselves as fixed beings at times. Meaning, we have ideas about who we are capable of being, who we should be, what options are out there or not out there for us and that we have to stay within certain parameters. While to some [...]
I just came across an article in the New York Spirit about Jena LaFlamme, a woman who designed her own weight loss program called “Pleasureable Weight Loss”. Her program helps women take the focus off restrictive, punitive diet and exercise regimens that lead to binge eating and teaches them how to find pleasure both [...]
So what are we doing here on this earth? Do you ever ask yourself this on yet another draggy Monday morning? I wonder about this a lot, especially as a therapist who sees people’s suffering quite a bit. What’s it all for anyway? Here’s something to chew on for this week if you’re [...]
So what are we doing here on this earth? Do you ever ask yourself this on yet another draggy Monday morning? I wonder about this a lot, especially as a therapist who sees people’s suffering quite a bit. What’s it all for anyway? Here’s something to chew on for this week if you’re [...]
Facebook is amazing on many levels. You can connect with old friends you never knew how to locate, look up an ex-girlfriend you might want to reconciliate with, find people to date from your friends’ lists of friends (not so much) and connect socially even when you’re home sick or having a lonely weekend. [...]
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.
