Have you heard of Therapy Intensives? My colleagues and I think they represent one of the most exciting therapy formats offered today. In this video my colleague Matthew May MD and I discuss our experience delivering, between us, close to 80 such intensives. Outcomes of these intensives have been overwhelmingly positive. And intensive patients regularlyContinue Reading: How To Do Six Months Of Psychotherapy In One Week

Our families, friends, and patients sometimes urgently ask us what they should do about some crisis in their lives. Should they continue working on a marriage that has become cold, hostile, and dispiriting? Should they leave? Should they carry to term a fetus with a high probability of being born with Down Syndrome? Should theyContinue Reading: What Should I DO?!

When someone breaks our heart, the pain of this rejection or betrayal can travel with us through time. One reason we can continue suffering years after a breakup is that we haven’t accepted and grieved the loss. We might want to avoid feeling the pain involved, or fear what will happen if we open ourselvesContinue Reading: Heartbreak Hotel

A general introduction to the ancient and ever-new science of cognitive-behavioral therapy. I recently presented this class at Georgetown University’s Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program. Join us for an expert guided tour of world CBT that starts beneath a Bodhi Tree in India 2500 years ago and winds up at Germany’s Max Plank Institute ForContinue Reading: CBT 101

What do Buddhism, motorsports and modern cognitive science have in common? Much, it turns out! Click on the image above to check out a podcast in which I and my friends at the Curiosity Hour explore these themes together