Have you ever struggled to communicate your experiences with your mental health, trauma triggers, or simply your life story to others? In many ways there are benefits to feeling confident and able to share our life experiences with our mental health and trauma with others if we need support, accommodation, or someone to understand our story.
Read MoreApplying psychotherapy to address communication issues can be a useful process because together, we can address the underlying causes of your communication issues. I draw on different psychotherapeutic frameworks and approaches in my practice.
Read MoreHave you ever wondered how your communication style and strategies may be influenced by different life experiences or by your experiences within different social and cultural institutions? In this blog post, we will explore a Bio-Ecological Model that analyzes the ways people’s mental health is impacted by different life experiences and how this model translates to treatment of communication issues.
Read MoreThis blog post is part of my 2-part series on clinical literature review-based articles that highlight the effectiveness of CBT for treating communication anxiety and social avoidance tendencies. I have aimed to focus on analyzing the ways that CBT is used in these articles as a clinical method for treating anxiety and social avoidance symptoms that may happen to share similarities with other mental health issues that the articles discuss.
Read MoreI define communication anxiety as physiological responses to social situations that are perceived as a threat by our nervous systems – for example, one with communication anxiety may experience a racing heartbeat, digestion difficulties, trouble sleeping, headaches, etc when confronted with certain social situations.
Read MoreSomething I have noticed over the years is that communication issues and communication anxieties often arise when people are feeling insecure or lacking confidence in who they are. Often, I have seen people feel anxious about their communication because they are fearful of how people may perceive them.
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