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Trauma-informed psychotherapy puts the body – and love – back in mental healthcare

“Psychotherapy heals when both therapist and client are equally invested in the relationship…the goal – to inhabit one’s body and relationships in new ways.” For the past 50 years, psychotherapy has taken a back seat to biomedical psychiatry, largely due to reliance on medications for the treatment of mental disorders. Yet clinical evidence increasingly points

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Self Compassion

Are you your own worst critic, without even realizing it? When we fail and mess up in our lives (perhaps a project at work goes wrong or a relationship ends), our moods are at risk of heading towards two extremes: self-pity on the one hand, where it is exclusively everyone else’s fault and we bathe

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Adoptive Parent’s Night at Columbia University’s Developmental Affective Neuroscience Lab

Join Nim Tottenham, Ph.D. for a night of wine, cheese, and stimulating conversation for you and pizza, movie, and childcare for your kids. Come and hear about the latest research in attachment, neuroscience, and brain development, and have an opportunity to ask questions and get information from a world class researcher and expert in the

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How Trauma-Informed Teaching Builds A Sense of Safety And Care

  “Students interact with teachers close to 30 hours a week. Training teachers in understanding trauma and interventions for individual students supports the developments of a strong attachment between student and teacher that enables children to feel safe and secure at school. ” – Leah How Trauma-Informed Teaching Builds A Sense of Safety And Care

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Humans Vs. Technology

Computers seem to know it all. They can add faster, but 2+2 still equals 4. They can make dinner reservations and book flights, but they can’t make them enjoyable. Computers can do so many things to make life easy, but they can’t carry on a stimulation conversation.   “From Apple’s Siri to Honda’s robot Asimo,

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