How exactly does psychotherapy help you grow, learn, and heal? For some schools of thought, the answer to this question is found in prescriptive tools or techniques, manualized treatments, and medications. In Depth or Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy which I practice, the answer to this question is found much more in the quality of the therapeutic relationship between therapist and client. What some people want when they enter the psychotherapy office is to have a kind of experience in a relationship, a new kind of experience they might have never had before, where they feel heard, understood, encouraged, and supported in a deep embodied way.

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Today I want talk a little bit about a couple of ways that you can ground yourself when you're feeling overwhelmed. So, when you have a lot of anxiety or a lot of overwhelm, as a lot of us are having during this pandemic, it's important that you have a couple of tools in your back pocket that you can use to help yourself calm down and ground. So, I'm going to go through a couple of different ways that you can quickly and hopefully, very easily, bring your activation level down and bring your anxiety level down a couple of notches.

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