Kratom is sold as a natural way to ease pain, lift mood, and calm anxiety, but it acts on the same brain system as opioids and can lead to dependence. For people in therapy or recovery, that can quietly undermine the very progress they are working toward.

Couples therapy is most effective when it isn't the only place where honest conversation happens. If you find yourself storing up concerns for Thursday's appointment, consider what that pattern is protecting you from and what it might be costing the relationship. The aim is not to eliminate the therapist's role but to make the office a place where you refine conversations you're already learning to have, rather than the only place you can have them.

Insomnia is one of the most common presenting complaints in mental health practice, and it rarely travels alone. It frequently co-occurs with depression, anxiety disorders, PTSD, and substance use, and the relationship is bidirectional. Poor sleep worsens emotional regulation, and emotional distress fragments sleep.

Most people picture eating disorders as being driven by weight or body image concerns. ARFID is Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder breaks that assumption entirely, and that's exactly why it's so often missed, misdiagnosed, or dismissed as "picky eating." ARFID describes a pattern of limited or avoidant eating that isn't motivated by a desire to lose weight or change one's shape, but that still causes significant nutritional, medical, or psychosocial harm.

While most of the clinical attention goes to what happens during a session (the bilateral stimulation, the targeted memory work) what happens afterward is equally important to a person's overall outcome.

While these partnerships often bring richness, expanded worldviews, and personal growth, research in family and relational psychology indicates they also carry a distinct set of stressors not typically present in same-culture pairings. This post examines the clinical and psychosocial dimensions of these challenges, with particular attention to family-of-origin dynamics, and offers an evidence-informed framework for understanding and addressing them.

When an adult child discloses that they are transgender or non-binary and intend to transition, families often experience a complex psychological process that clinicians increasingly recognize as a distinct form of adjustment, sometimes described in the literature as an "ambiguous loss” without a clear endpoint, in which the person is still present but the relationship as it was previously understood has changed.