Featured Treatment Articles
Articles from January 2009
- The Link Between PTSD and Substance Abuse
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop in some people after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened. An emerging body of research has documented a very strong association between PTSD and substance abuse. more...
- EMDR--Taking Therapy to the Next Level
EMDR targets memories of trauma stored in a part of the brain - the limbic system - which does not respond readily to talk therapy. It can access processing and reasoning within the client which before seemed non-existent and typically reduces total length of therapy time by approximately 50 percent. more...