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October Webinar: Understanding Cutting & Other Self-Harm Behaviors

October 12, 2021
Blogs, Training, Videos

As part of our Lunch & Learn personality disorder training series for therapists, we’re taking on a topic that most therapists have faced: cutting and other self harm behaviors. As part of our Therapist Development Program, Nysa Therapy has launched a free webinar series taking on topics that matter to…

September 27 Lunch & Learn: Understanding Borderline Rage

We’re Launching Brand New Lunchtime Webinar Series for Therapists

August 27, 2021
Blogs, Training, Videos

We’re excited to offer a new personality disorder training series! At Nysa Therapy, we provide therapists and students studying to be mental health professionals with the skills and tools they need to effectively treat personality disorder. That’s why we are proud to announce the launch of our “Lunch & Learn”…

Pop Culture & PD: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

August 10, 2021
Blogs, Personality Disorders, Pop Culture & PD

Pop culture can be an excellent example and opportunity for learning about personality disorder. If you’ve seen it, you will never forget Jim Carey as Joel and Kate Winslet as Clementine in the 2004 cult classic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. If you don’t want to read spoilers, this blog…

Most people lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

Reflections on “Quiet” Personality Disorder

July 15, 2021
Blogs, Personality Disorders

Most people lead lives of quiet desperation. – Henry David Thoreau – As strange as this might sound, I’ve always loved this quote. Since I was a teenager this quote has explained a feeling I have about many of the people I meet every day. Most are friendly and appropriate…

What is Personality Disorder?

June 30, 2021
Blogs, Personality Disorders

What is Personality Disorder? We are often asked this question by both patients and clinicians. Our definition most certainly goes beyond what you’d find in the DSM, because at Nysa Therapy, our focus is on WHY personality disorder makes sense, and why mental health practitioners should EXPECT patients to act…

Forget LGBTQ+ Acceptance; We Celebrate! Honoring LGBTQ+ Pride Month.

June 7, 2021
Blogs

Happy Pride Month! June is here and that means we have a whole month to shout out our pride in the millions of LGBTQ+ family, friends, and communities around the world. All of us at Nysa Therapy are hardcore devoted supporters of LGBTQ+ people. There is a reason for this. …

a wooden path leading you through the grass down to the beach

This Year, Let’s Throw Out Resolutions in Favor of Relationship

January 27, 2021
Blogs

As we enter the New Year, it is common for us to reflect on the past and set goals for the year ahead. While there is nothing inherently wrong with intention setting or making resolutions, these practices can miss the mark in therapy with patients who are struggling with personality…

The exterior of a building with a sign that says Welcome to The Evolution of Psychotherapy

The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference 2017

December 19, 2017
Blogs

Steve, Mary and I just returned from the Evolution of Psychotherapy conference in Anaheim, CA and have so much to report. We attended presentations by Judith Beck, John and Julie Gottman, Harville Hendrix, Helen LaKelly Hunt, Sue Johnson, Otto Kernberg, Harriet Lerner, Peter Levine, Cloe Madanes, Scott Miller, Ernest Rossi,…

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