Ready to embark on a mental health journey with a psychotherapist? Good for you! This is an important and exciting step towards better mental health. We also realize that it can feel daunting to begin searching for a therapist. Picking the right therapist for you is really important. Success in therapy is greatly determined by the […]
We see it every day. A client is coming in to manage their anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, OCD, or other issues. They start to share their life-long challenges. This may include thoughts of failure, inadequacy and unworthiness, and feelings of shame. We then uncover a deep struggle with perfectionism, often beginning in childhood. Striving for […]
If you are human, you have experienced some anxiety in your life. This is by design; anxious feelings are our instinctual physical response of warning, to keep us safe from danger. It is an evolutionary development that kept our ancestors from getting too close to predatory animals or other physical dangers. While occasional anxiety, about […]
Many people go through life and don’t stop to observe what they are thinking and feeling until problems become so big that they interfere with day-to-day functioning and it is therefore necessary to think about. We see a wide variety of clients with different presenting issues. While no situation is exactly the same, I like to […]
Nashville Psych is thrilled to announce the launch of our Therapy Internship Program and to welcome our first cohort of Therapist-Trainees. The program was designed to better serve Nashville’s diverse and economically challenged populations, while simultaneously providing graduate students with the supervised experiences necessary to become highly-skilled and competent mental health professionals. Program Offers Lower […]
After several weeks of staying at home, millions are out of work. Those who are able to work from home are also dealing with challenges. So many of us are feeling a wide range of emotions, many of them difficult. Fear, frustration, anxiety and feeling stir crazy are among those that I’ve heard repeatedly from […]