PTSD

Post-Traumatic Growth: The Science of Becoming Stronger Through Struggle 

For most of the history of clinical psychology, the conversation about trauma focused almost entirely on injury. The diagnostic categories, the research, the public understanding, all of it centered on what trauma takes from people and what symptoms it produces. The injury was the appropriate place to start, and the field needed to take it… Read More

Complex PTSD vs. PTSD: What’s the Difference?

A significant portion of the people who come into my office carrying what they call PTSD do not actually have PTSD in the way that term is most commonly used. They have something related, often more pervasive, and frequently harder to recognize because it does not look the way trauma is typically portrayed. They have… Read More