How to Find a Therapist

There’s no script for grief. Some days it settles over you like a heavy fog that won’t lift. Other days it goes quiet, hides, and then shows up weeks later out of nowhere. There’s no tidy timeline for mourning and no single correct way to get through it. Loss isn’t...

Sometimes your body reacts before you even realize what’s happening. Your heart suddenly starts racing, your palms get sweaty, and the same anxious thought keeps going round and round in your head. Or, conversely, everything around you seems to fall silent, and you...

Summer camps, relatives’ birthdays, week-long visits with your parents. It all sounds cozy, but only when you picture it in your head. In reality, it often drags you back into old roles you outgrew long ago. Mom comments on your weight again, your uncle makes another...

Most people expect to feel some version of overwhelmed after a baby arrives. What they don’t always expect is the anxiety that settles in and doesn’t leave. Not ordinary new-parent worry, but something that runs underneath everything, coloring every decision, making...

Shy people exist. So do people with social anxiety. The two get mixed up constantly, and the confusion matters more than it might seem. Calling social anxiety “just shyness” is a bit like calling a broken leg “tired legs.” The surface experience overlaps, but the...

DBT gets mentioned a lot in therapy conversations, usually in the same breath as CBT, and is rarely explained clearly enough to know what it actually involves. DBT skills are a specific, structured set of tools developed by psychologist Marsha Linehan for people whose...

There’s a specific kind of strange that’s hard to describe to someone who hasn’t felt it. You’re in a conversation, or driving somewhere familiar, and suddenly the world looks slightly wrong. Not wrong in a way you can point to exactly. Just distant. Flat. Like you’re...