You may not have heard about this from your psychiatrist, but the debate about whether or not psychiatric medications help mental illness, is still quietly raging.

Are God and good nutrition part of your mental health treatment plan?

Sometimes even minor stressors, such as doing your taxes, can trigger significant symptoms.

Faith-based therapy, nutrition and mental health, children’s therapy, therapist best-practices, and more mental health trends we hope to see in 2012.

Mental illness and addiction are mental, physical and spiritual diseases—is medication always the answer?

It doesn’t matter how brilliant you are. If you are drinking or using drugs your therapist needs to know.

If you are a therapy patient, you need to know: You have the right to see your clinical records, at any point in time. There are no ifs, ands, or buts.

What therapy isn’t is a panacea. Yet, that seems to be precisely the present paradigm. When people are lonely, questioning their lives, feeling shut out or shut down and they don’t know where to turn, today, in the 21st century Western World, a therapist’s office is often where they land.

At a subsequent session, after she tentatively questioned him again, Dr. Lange told her she simply must trust him. “How can you expect to ever trust your husband if you don’t trust me”?

How many months of therapy will I need if I come to see you twice a week?”

Leslie thought for a moment. “Well, dear, you see, with your family history, you will most likely be in therapy for the rest of your life.”

Angelica felt as if she had been hit by a hammer.