Category Archives: Anxiety

Today, parents have an increased awareness of the epidemic of childhood obesity. Do parents of an ADD / ADHD child need to have special concern?  Should adults with obesity wonder if they have ADD/ADHD? New research is showing a link between obesity and ADHD. With the health risks involved with childhood and adult obesity, identifying children and(read more)

In 1999 I added Neurofeedback Training to my psychotherapy practice and have been using it ever since to help clients improve how their brain regulates itself so they feel better, think better, and perform at their peak.  I have helped my clients improve: depression, anxiety, panic attacks, sleep, ability to concentrate and sit still, grades,(read more)

Life is full of stressors. I once heard Norman Vincent Peale say that the only people without problems and stress were ‘all those people buried over there in that cemetery’. He was right. If we are alive, we have plenty of triggers for stress. But it’s how we choose to respond to something that determines how(read more)

Why is it important to use a holistic approach to help a child with ADHD succeed? The first thing many parents of children with ADHD are told is that their child should  take stimulant medications.  For some children medication works very well and for others it does not.  But even if medication works for a child,(read more)

Do you or your child toss and turn at night and experience daytime sleepiness?  Have you or your child been diagnosed with ADHD, depression, or anxiety.  Fifty percent of children in a recent study that had been diagnosed with ADHD had difficulty sleeping.  They felt tired on awakening, had nightmares, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome,(read more)

Protecting your brain is an extremely important component of optimum brain fitness. Damage can occur in a variety of ways including obvious ones like accidents and illness. But be wary of those cleaning products and even cosmetics that we expose ourselves and our children to on a routine basis. Just think how your bathroom smells after(read more)

The dictionary defines gratitude as: a feeling of thankful appreciation for favors or benefits received; thankfulness. Appreciation is defined as grateful recognition. Wayne Dyer who coined the term ‘an attitude of gratitude’, says that gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and(read more)