by Richard Amaral | Nov 2, 2018 | Change, Uncategorized
For the next few weeks, I’ll be focusing on the relationship between your thoughts, behaviours, and feelings. These are the main aspects behind cognitive-behavioural therapy (or CBT). The power of your beliefs The cognitive model, which is at the foundation of CBT,...
by Richard Amaral | Oct 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
What is common amongst anxiety-based disorders (e.g., social anxiety, OCD, panic disorder) is that it’s often caused by distorted, negative, critical, and biased ways of thinking. To be more specific, when you are feeling anxious your emotions are being influenced by...
by Richard Amaral | Feb 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
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by Richard Amaral | Jul 4, 2016 | Counselling and Psychotherapy, Mental Health, Stress, Uncategorized
[message_box title=”GUEST POST” color=”red”]Today’s post is from Tim Wayne of Bradley University. He describes an interesting branch of counselling psychology known as neurocounselling. Neurocounselling essentially combines...
by Richard Amaral | May 2, 2015 | Relationships, Uncategorized
Marriages and long-term relationships require work if we want them to survive. In my last post I talked about three strategies to help strengthen your marriage. In this post, I’ll discuss three more strategies. They are all based on data from a longitudinal...
by Richard Amaral | Mar 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
Loneliness is one of the most uncomfortable feelings anyone can have. I remember one of the first times I experienced loneliness. I was 26-years old and had just moved to a new city for graduate school. It was the first time I lived on my own. It was Spring Break, and...
