In my practice I encourage my patients to build their own “tool box” for managing mental health symptoms, and for most of us these tools include some combination of: psychotropic medications; psychotherapy; lifestyle choices (such as exercise /meditation); and social connections / sources of relationship support. However - if there was one fundamental tool I could bestow to all of my patients - it would be the practice of self-compassion.

Sometimes the demands of life feel like more than we can handle. We find that we are stuck in a thought process and don’t know our way out. There is a way through this. We may just need a different approach.

Sometimes, when we experience a confusing situation in our lives—a tricky misunderstanding, a missed flight, a difficult loss, or even positive news we weren't expecting—we can find ourselves in a nagging bind…

Anxiety can present itself through a broad range of symptoms.  For the majority of the individuals I work with, anxiety can show up as chronic worry, ruminations or obsessive thoughts that interrupts their day-to-day functioning and negatively impacts their lives.

Leading with Empathy and Boundaries in a Stressful Time: We’re living in an era where headlines feel relentlessly urgent. Each day seems to deliver more unsettling news…