Therapists who treat phobias: Do you use the formal phobia names (e.g. aerophobia) or do you typically just say fear of XYZ (e.g. fear of flying)

Check out this poll on phobias: #Psychotherapists #VR #CBTWorks #ExposureTherapy Dan Hoffman PhD ABPP Anxiety and Depression Association of America Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies

Searching for that kernel of excitement rather than a feeling of completeness and certainty is such a better way to navigate the adventure of life.

“Boundaries are a verb, not a noun.” Boundaries are actions that we take, focusing on what is in our control (saying no or making a request), not necessarily about what other people do or the outcome.

Excited to be attending training by STRONG STAR Consortium on comorbid OCD & PTSD. Interesting stats: Those with current PTSD treatment are 3.6x more likely to have OCD OCD dx onset occurs: same year as PTSD onset (20.7%), following PTSD dx (39.9%), before PTSD onset (39.4%)

After a long break, I decided to jump back into sharing evidence-based, #CBTWorks techniques & what I hope you'll find to be useful & hopeful perspectives and insights! To get us started, here is a sheet on values clarification shorturl.at/oBfee:

#PTSD Clinical/Research Tidbit: For clinicians who use #CognitiveProcessingTherapy to treat #PTSD, homework completion for sessions 8 and 9 (Trust and Power/control themes) was associated with additional clinically significant improvement in symptoms pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC61…