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How To Spot People With DID

Dissociative problems are portrayed by a compulsory break from reality described by a separation between considerations, personality, cognizance, and memory. Individuals from all age gatherings and racial, ethnic, and financial foundations can encounter a dissociative issue. Up to 75% of individuals experience in any event one depersonalization/derealization scene in their lives, with just 2% gathering the full rules for constant...[ read more ]

Reignite Intimacy With Your Partner.

Regardless of whether you're having probably the greatest days of your relationship or you're mid-contention, your accomplice needs to know you're as yet enamored. Every day confirmations fill in as delicate updates that you're as yet enthusiastic, genuine, and wanting to be around for quite a long time to come — ideally until the end of time. Here are 7...[ read more ]

When is the perfect time to seek a therapist?

Do I Need Counseling? Fortunately, we live in a day and age where treatment has shed the disgrace of just being for 'insane' individuals. But the obsolete idea perseveres that you need to feel dreadful or have a day-to-day existence that is in pieces to profit by guiding. The outcome? Regardless of whether we speculate we could utilize some help,...[ read more ]

The Effects of Technology on Mental Health

At whatever point you go to the shopping center or eatery, or even in your own home, attempt to glance around. You will see kids posting via web-based media, babies watching on iPads, and grown-ups whose telephones are directly close to their plates so prepared to get up at the main ring or any notice. We as a whole expertise...[ read more ]

The Modern Sex Talk

#MeToo. Social media. TikTok. Only Fans. Gender fluidity. The realities of what kids know — or think they know — about sex are vastly different than when we were growing up. While this assumption has been said between generations before, it is undoubtedly true today as young people have access to way more sexualized content than ever before. A typical...[ read more ]

BECOMING A DAD AND MAINTAINING YOUR MENTAL HEALTH

        Becoming a dad for the first time can be one of the most rewarding experiences in a man’s life – but it can also create a host of new challenges that raise a guy’s stress level. It’s not unusual for men to get down on themselves or into a darker place as well, as studies show...[ read more ]

What You Need to Know About Pandemic Trauma and Depression

      Here's the thing: I had trauma or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) long before the pandemic; it's one of the reasons my depression is chronic. In my opinion, the pandemic has led to PTSD even in people who haven't contracted COVID-19. I say this with confidence because it's the reason my PTSD has become more intense since last...[ read more ]

Hidden in Plain Sight

  Ethan Kross Ph.D. Rafael Nadal is one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Although he’s well known for his speed and power on the court, there’s another feature of his performance that defines his play but subtly involves his mind more than his limbs: the quirky rituals he engages in. Take, for example, Nadal’s behavior during the...[ read more ]

Strategies for Self-Improvement During Difficult Times

Teyhou Smyth Ph.D., LMFT Is it good to have a New Years Resolution? It seems there was less talk about new year's resolutions during the transition from 2020 to 2021. Perhaps that was one of the few positive outcomes of Covid-19 and the myriad of other challenges from such a difficult year. New year's resolutions, despite their seemingly optimistic and empowering...[ read more ]

The Attunement Bridge: Healing From an Affair

By: Jenn TeGrotenhuis, LMHC John and Shannon brought their tattered marriage to therapy, to see if they could salvage it from an affair. Right away, we discovered they had a deep habitual communication pattern. John had a veneer of sweetness that we decided to call the “chill dude.” He liked to maintain this state of seeming “easy-going,” which appeared flexible...[ read more ]




Cape Coral Office:
3208 Chiquita Blvd.,Suite 204,
Cape Coral, Fl 33914

Sarasota Offices:
1487 2nd Street Suite C-4
Sarasota, FL 34236

info@draprilbrown.com
(239) 565-6921

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