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Sex Therapy

Sex therapists can be psychiatrists, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, or clinical social workers. The best sex therapists will also be licensed within other helping professions (e.g. psychology, family counseling), so you can think of it as if you are seeing a urologist for urological problems rather than a primary care physician, because both have … Continue reading

Play Therapy

It is often difficult to understand the unknown. How can we understand the thoughts of children, when they do not know how to express themselves? Do we just ask? Will they eventually tell us? These remedies may work, but in the event they do not there is, play therapy. Play therapy is designated for children … Continue reading

Gestalt Therapy

In 1964, Paul Goodman stated, “The issue is not whether people are ‘good enough’ for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom”. The institution, in which he would later … Continue reading

Family/Marital Therapy

You are born with family, but you choose your friends.” It can be difficult to establish and sustain a relationship with individuals you are you do not “choose”. Family therapy (a.k.a. couples therapy) is a psychotherapy based atmosphere which implores systems of interactions in an intimate atmosphere. Since the tension is deep, it is often … Continue reading

Cognitive Therapy

In 1967, Ulric Neisser coined the term “cognitive psychology” when proclaiming, “The term “cognition” refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. It is concerned with these processes even when they operate in the absence of relevant stimulation, as in images and hallucinations… Given such a … Continue reading