True Freedom
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YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS = PARENT MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS
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Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD
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A Clinical Psychologist’s More Than Two Cents: How We Need to Advance the Field of Talk Therapy
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TAKE 10: Trauma/PTSD Therapy
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Memorial Day 2024 Reflections
My paternal grandfather was an Army Medic and treated injured [...]
Healing the Gender Divide
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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 year of graduate school at Case Western Reserve University…. The pure emotion of grief/loss has innate intelligence and inherent healing properties… If we were more courageous in noticing and making contact with uncomfortable emotional states like grief, loss, fear & sadness, I believe everyone would be a little more psychologically healthy…. In the 17 years since my father passed, the emotion of grief/loss is still working through my system in some beautiful ways…..
I am a psychologist (and a writer)
I have a secret to share in the spirit [...]