Should Have Known Better…
Letting Go: An Antidote to the Rearview Mirror and Crystal Ball Habits of the Mind In the year before my father died, Sufjan Stevn's catchy song "Chicago" (featured in the 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine) was [...]
So You Want to Become a Psychologist (PhD/PsyD)…
➡️ If you are thinking about pursuing a career in psychology and mental health, I offer consulting services to help you make an informed decision. ✅ The training to become a PhD/PsyD psychologist takes 5-7 [...]
True Freedom
Between stimulus and response Happy Independence Day!The 4th of July in America represents many things to many people. Historically, the holiday represents the Second Continental Congress’ unanimous adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July [...]
YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS = PARENT MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS
As a Gen X, digital immigrant, psychologist and mom, I think a lot about how our current **information-overloaded, Googling obsessed, social-media-mindless scrolling, click-bait, immediate gratification culture** is contributing to the “YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS” but [...]
Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD
Today is National PTSD Screening Day Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy is one of the gold-standard psychotherapies for PTSD. I provided PE for countless patients as part of my involvement in various NIMH/DOD clinical trials. I [...]
A Clinical Psychologist’s More Than Two Cents: How We Need to Advance the Field of Talk Therapy
TL;DR➡️➡️For the field of talk therapy to evolve, its influencers (researchers, clinicians) need to (1) move away from promoting their “preferred” therapy orientation models, (2) move away from trying to fit the mental health industry [...]
TAKE 10: Trauma/PTSD Therapy
What TEN ingredients does EFFECTIVE and COMPASSIONATE trauma/PTSD treatment include? The trauma/PTSD therapies that have the most RCT support are Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE), Cognitive Processing Therpay (CPT), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).I [...]
Memorial Day 2024 Reflections
My paternal grandfather was an Army Medic and treated injured soldiers on D-Day (6/6/1944). My father joined ROTC (Air Force) when he was an undergrad English major at the College of the Holy Cross to [...]
Healing the Gender Divide
👩❤️👨HEALING THE GENDER DIVIDE👩❤️👨 I love men. I love women. Even more than men and women - I love children. I love boys (I’m raising one) who will become men. I love girls (I’m raising [...]
May 14, 2024 – Grief & Loss (My father)
My late father, John T. Duax, would have turned 78 today. He died from a quick battle with lung cancer at the age of 61. I was 28 years old and in my 3rd [...]