Faces of Social Work: Barbara on building on clients’ strengths – “I love my work because significant change is possible…people come out the other side with amazing strengths.”–Barbara Heffernan, psychotherapist

 

Lies My Anxiety Told Me: The Bear, The Psychologist and an Impractical Purple …

Filed under: anxiety psychotherapist

People are always asking me why I became a therapist, and an anxiety therapist to boot. Perhaps this will explain: I've had two close calls in life. One with a bear, one with a purple skirt. First the skirt. The year was 1968. I was in first grade. The …
Read more on Huffington Post (blog)

 

Art therapist offers comfort & coping tools during holidays, her busiest season

Filed under: anxiety psychotherapist

West Seattle resident and art therapist Jennifer Harkness is offering workshops to help cope with holiday-producing anxiety. In addition to talk-therapy, she utilizes art supplies, and diagrams of people, to assist clients to unmask emotions in a non …
Read more on Westseattleherald.com

 

Commentary: The benefits of traditional psychotherapy

Filed under: anxiety psychotherapist

We're living in a world where waiting longer than 10 seconds for an Internet page to load is experienced as "too slow," and where we expect others to respond instantly to our e-mails and texts. So it isn't surprising we want our psychological problems …
Read more on Daily Pilot

 

With a natural disaster like Sandy, anxiety is only natural

Filed under: anxiety psychotherapist

You have your health and that's the most important," said Dr. Kenneth Langlieb, a Ridgewood psychotherapist who specializes in treating anxiety. Your family and friends may be on edge and showing frustration; it's important to let them vent, said Langlieb.
Read more on NorthJersey.com