Reassurance seeking is a common pattern in clients with high worry (e.g. Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Health Anxiety, Attachment/Relationship anxiety) The Reassurance Seeking Trap is that getting reassurance often works in the short term but then wears off, so you seek more. Excessive reassurance seeking has some negative consequences, which CRUELLY fuel greater worry and a [...]

Some days, everything is going well and I think I’m a great psychologist. Some days I think I am indeed awesome, lol. But, there are moments when it pops into my head that “I’m useless”. I’m sharing this example to show how you can use two different approaches for dealing with these types of thoughts. [...]

One of the most stress-reducing and time-saving things I’ve done in the last year has been to stick up a plastic 3M hook that I hang my keys on when I walk in the front door of my house. I would guess that this has saved me literally hours of searching for my keys and [...]