Month: May 2016

“I work in public health, and I get a lot of cancellations from my patients (for all kinds of reasons). How do you deal with or minimize this problem? My strategy has been that as long as the patient feels less anxiety when leaving my office than when entering it, this should be a strong…

“I am working with a highly socially anxious man who was verbally and physically abused by his angry father when he was a child. He says he is afraid of becoming his father (i.e., abusive) and has in fact become verbally cruel to his ex-girlfriends. So he drops friends and lovers at the first sign…