General Practice

Anxiety Disorders affect about 40 million American adults age 18 years and older (about 18%) in a given year,1 causing them to be filled with fearfulness and uncertainty.

Depression Facts Affects over 18 million adults (one in ten) in any given year. Is the leading cause of disability for ages 15-44. Is the primary reason why someone dies of suicide about every 13 minutes. – over 41,000 people a year. In comparison: homicide claims less than 16,000 lives [...]

What Is Traumatic Stress: Traumatic events are shocking and emotionally overwhelming situations that may involve actual or threaten death, serious injury, or threat to physical integrity. Reactions to traumatic events vary considerably, ranging from relatively mild creating minor disruptions in the person's life to severe and debilitating. Acute Stress [...]

COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY FOR INSOMNIA Sleep accounts for a third of our lives, and a growing number of doctors believe that it should receive more attention from the medical community. Doctors have now linked sleep-related illnesses to hypertension, stroke, congestive heart failure, depression, and an overall decreased quality [...]

EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION AND REPROCESSING (EMDR) What is EMDR? Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR) is a treatment that was developed to treat people who had upsetting memories from their past. When a person has had a severely upsetting thing happen to them, the brain does not [...]

Chronic pain, unfortunately, is all too prevalent and affects about 20% to 30% of the adults in Western countries.

Congratulations on your accomplishments to get you through to this stage of the licensing process! I am currently accepting applications from a limited number of LPC-Interns that show potential for success and ethical behavior in this demanding field. Choosing the right supervisor for your LPC internship is critical to [...]