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Video: Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and self-harm are frequently misunderstood through the lens of stigma, fear, and oversimplified assumptions—often leaving individuals and families feeling isolated, judged, or hopeless. Through compassionate, evidence-based discussion, Karen L. Jacob, PhD, and...

Video: Building a Life Beyond OCD Using ACT

Living with OCD can create exhausting cycles of fear, uncertainty, avoidance, reassurance seeking, and emotional struggle that gradually narrow daily life, confidence, and freedom. Through psychologically grounded and recovery-oriented discussion, this session explores how acceptance and commitment...

Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Proven Option for Treating Severe Depression

Brian Neville had a good life. A one-time bodybuilder, he was 43, a successful businessman in the tanning industry, with a home in Massachusetts and a vacation condo in Florida. Then one morning in 2006 he woke up with the blues. It developed into a persistent darkness that just would not go away...

Video: Raising Calm Minds: Mindfulness Techniques for Home and Schools

Children and teens thrive when given tools to calm their minds, regulate their emotions, and focus. This on-demand training offers practical mindfulness strategies that parents, caregivers, and educators can use to support kids’ mental health and resilience. Why This Training Matters Mindfulness...

Video: Addressing Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents

Wendy P. Bamatter, PhD, offers clear, compassionate guidance on recognizing borderline personality disorder in adolescents and supporting teens experiencing emotional dysregulation across home, school, and clinical settings. Why This Training Matters Adolescents with BPD are often misunderstood at a...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): A Complete Guide

Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, is one of the most common treatment options for certain mental health conditions. Originally used to address borderline personality disorder (BPD), now DBT is also used to treat depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bulimia, and substance addiction...

ASMR and Mental Health: Where Science and Stress Relief Meet

You may have heard of autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) and how people are using the practice to feel centered during periods of anxiety, depression, or stress. ASMR, which includes visual, sound, and touch sensations, can help people feel calm, relaxed, and safe. Because of such effects...

Mentalization-Based Treatment: Understanding Yourself and Others

Mentalization-based treatment (MBT) has been proven to be beneficial in the management of borderline personality disorder (BPD). MBT encourages an individual to focus on how their mental states affect their own behavior, as well as the behavior of others. MBT is a form of therapy that does not...

Using DBT Skills To Regulate Our Emotions

Emotions are important signals that guide our decisions. Without them, we might not know when to avoid danger, connect with someone we care about, or feel regret after a choice we wish we could undo. Basic emotions, such as anger, joy, sadness, and fear, shape our daily lives, but our inner world is...

Exploring DBT: Interpersonal Effectiveness

Relationships are fundamental to your mental health, but balancing priorities within them can be tricky. This includes everyone in your orbit: partners, coworkers, roommates, and even the barista who makes your morning coffee. Disagreements happen, and it’s natural and healthy to have boundaries and...

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: A Deep Dive

People living with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often struggle with self-image, emotional stability, and relationships with others. Transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) treats BPD by concentrating on the relationship between the therapist and patient. Transference refers to feelings a...

Exploring Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: Hope, Hype, and Healing

In the quiet, dimly lit room, a patient sits comfortably, surrounded by soft music and gentle voices guiding them through a journey of self-discovery. This isn’t a scene from a science fiction novel but a groundbreaking approach to mental health treatment known as psychedelic-assisted therapy. As...

Mind Meets Tradition: Blending Eastern Wisdom & Western Mental Health

Ideas about the mind and healing have developed in strikingly different ways across cultures. In the West, psychology often takes a clinical approach—identifying disorders, naming symptoms, and finding treatments. Eastern traditions, on the other hand, have long emphasized practices like meditation...

DBT Distress Tolerance Explained: Skills and Strategies

Many mental health treatments focus on change—improving relationships, communication, or thinking patterns—to make life easier over time. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) acknowledges a hard truth: Not every painful situation can be changed, at least not right away. Sometimes, we face...

Video: Using Ketamine To Treat Depression

Explore what clinicians, patients, and families need to know about ketamine’s role in treating depression—its science, safety, and real-world outcomes. Why This Training Matters Ketamine is one of the most talked-about treatments in psychiatry today—and one of the most misunderstood. This session...

DBT Mindfulness Explained: Skills and Everyday Practice

Chances are, you or someone you know is under a lot of stress—and you’re not alone. Daily stress and constant distractions can make it easy to get caught up in negative thoughts. Mindfulness—focusing on the present moment—can help. Regular practice supports both mental and physical health, easing...

Exposure and Response Prevention: Facing Fears, Finding Freedom

Obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a serious condition that can disrupt someone’s daily life. It is marked by obsessions, or unwanted intrusive thoughts, and physical or mental actions taken to relieve anxiety associated with the obsessions. Exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy is...

Video: DBT Skills: The Value of Validation

A few words can go a long way in helping someone feel understood. Say something as simple as “I hear you” or “That must seem really hard,” and you’re likely to provide more emotional support to that individual than you realize. Tell yourself that you recognize an inner experience, and you can...