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  • Services
    • Existential Issues
    • Psychoanalytic Treatment
      • Depression Resources
    • Anxiety Treatment
      • Teen Anxiety Symptoms
  • Blog
  • What to Expect
    • New to therapy?
    • FAQ
    • Therapy Cost
  • About
    • My Therapy Approach
    • My background
    • My Therapy Clients
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Understand Yourself: Feeling like a fraud?

Feeling-like-a-fraud is a shared sentiment amongst most people. We all, at one point or another, feel like we’re not really all that we are trying to portray. As if the…

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March 27

Understand yourself: Your relationship with sex matters.

Our culture has an interestingly bizarre, confusion-laden relationship with sex. While teens are expected to “just say no” the average adult struggles to come to a resolution and find a…

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March 23

Do you //feel//?

Our feelings are like weather patterns. They are changeable and act on the environment with great power. They inform and distract with their intensity. They reflect the nature of the…

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July 11

Others: the fear that keeps us caged.

It seems that everyone I meet fears “others”: what “others” might say, or think, or how they will judge us. I think we’re socialized to have this fear. Not everyone…

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November 26

A late introduction, late at night

I care deeply about mental health. Yes, I’m a shrink so the interest comes with the territory, but it’s not just that. I get mental health and how debilitating and…

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November 16

Want to be happy?

Happiness is a similar concept to that of the key to the meaning of life; we actively seek it and are willing to go to the depths of our strength…

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February 11

The inner critic: “you can’t”, “you’re not good enough”, you’re it!

I’ve been reading a string of articles lately on the PsychCentral’s website (here and here) about the inner critic and some ways in which to deal with it.The notion of…

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November 15
  • Key word: Perspective

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    One of the keystones to cultivating a perspective that brings greater fulfillment and happiness is the attitude of gratitude. By ACTIVELY seeking things to be grateful for and appreciate, we begin to see things from a higher perspective. We see the sacredness and the perfection of life, as it is. That doesn’t mean we can’t shoot for an upgrade too, but we might as well enjoy where we are in the moment as well. I maintain, it’s not what happens to you in life, it’s what you do with it. Perspective is everything. Once I was walking down a street in India and came a across a leper on the…

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  • Do you //feel//?

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    Our feelings are like weather patterns. They are changeable and act on the environment with great power. They inform and distract with their intensity. They reflect the nature of the moment with great accuracy. Our ability to experience and share our feelings in meaningful ways is one of the profound marks of our humanity. Yet feelings are for many people a locked box, an experience that overwhelms and is difficult to express. We are taught in a variety of circumstances and for a variety of reasons to suppress our feelings. We learn to silence our feelings so well that the messages in our bodies are not even discernible. Suppressed feelings…

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  • The true meaning of “To Be”

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    What are core beliefs? How do they end up playing such an important role in who we are and in our lives? How do we get them? Do we have access to them? Are we aware of them? Is it within our power to discard the ones that do not serve us? This topic is really inexhaustible, but, in this article, I will touch upon some basic processes. Beginning in infancy, and early childhood two main processes are responsible for the way we view ourselves, our world, our place in it and our relationship to it: our personal observations, through our senses and autonomous thinking processes, and the influence of…

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  • Finding yourself

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    I recently came across an article I would like to share with you all.  At its core, it truly represents the foundation upon which I build my psychotherapy practice. Enjoy.   Your most important assignment on earth is to excavate the caverns of your inner self to uncover the jewels of your own self. Self-transformation is a process that can be self-initiated and self-guided. It is often helpful to have a guide to help you bring to light what is hidden in your subconscious programming. To make lasting change, embrace everything and see the challenges, failures, and limiting beliefs as diamonds in the rough. The things that you wish you…

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Highlights

Podcast interview: (US) Pillow Talk: The Psychology of Erotica with artist and therapist Diana Pitaru

PsychCentral interview: Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Therapist Diana Pitaru

Podcast interview: (UK) My Perfect Failure: Failure and The Unconscious with Diana Pitaru

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