Contributed by Margaret Wehrenberg

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Saying Goodbye to Work You Love

How Do Therapists Know When It's Time to Retire?

The uniqueness of a psychotherapist’s job can make it hard to let go of. Read more

Taking the Podium

The Growing Influence of Women in Psychotherapy

Despite an increasing diversity in race and ethnicity, the psychotherapy field is primarily filled with women—a reversal that's taken place over the last 50... Read more

Two Years In, This Therapist is Angry

Addressing the Anxiety Underneath

When the pandemic first struck, I was concerned about its impact yet able to handle the anxiety about infection pretty well. After all, managing anxiety is my... Read more

To Interrupt Anxiety, Try Singing

An Interview with Margaret Wehrenberg

Over the last year and a half, therapists have been pushed to the limit listening to clients worry, ruminate, grieve, and suffer in magnified ways. And we’ve... Read more

Grief Anniversaries

Acknowledging Loss a Year Later

It’s critical for clinicians to recognize anniversary reactions. When clients describe their experiences as depression, we naturally think of solutions like... Read more

The Year of Canceled Plans

Coping with Loss as Disappointment

As all of us in the United States move into the coming months, a full year into COVID life, our personal losses will come into focus. If we don’t process... Read more

The Labels We Use

When It Comes to Addiction, Sometimes a Diagnosis is a Client's Best Motivator

The labels we use to describe clients’ behaviors have important therapeutic implications. Sometimes using the word addiction and explaining its neurological... Read more

Ten Best-Ever Anxiety-Management Techniques

There are Effective Alternatives to Medication

The sensations of doom or dread or panic felt by anxiety sufferers are truly overwhelming. The very same sensations, in fact, that a person would feel if the... Read more

Cure or Control?

Depression as a Chronic Condition

Evidence continues to accumulate that many people with depression suffer bouts of it all their lives, even after a good response to therapy. So what if we give... Read more

VIDEO: The Neurobiology of Worry

How the Brain Creates Neurobiology Ruts

In this brief video clip, Margaret Wehrenberg, cognitive behaviorist and author of The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques, offers some facts about the... Read more

VIDEO: The Neurobiology of Anxiety

How to Incorporate Brain Science into Your Treatment Approach

According to Margaret Wehrenberg, when it comes to clients with panic disorders, the first thing to discern is what they’re doing to avoid panic. “The... Read more

What Type of Depression is It?

Margaret Wehrenberg on Working with Low-Energy Depressed Clients

Margaret Wehrenberg identified specific types of anxious/depressed clients and has honed different treatment techniques that are effective. Read more

Habits vs. Addictions

What’s the Difference?

Some people can drink to excess for years without experiencing the negative consequences that can destroy their lives. So when does someone cross the tenuous... Read more

Deconstructing Depression

A Therapeutic Road Map for Effective Treatment

Depression is an ill-defined diagnosis encompassing conditions with a variety of underlying causes. Recognizing different forms of depression is the key to... Read more

10 Best-Ever Anxiety-Management Techniques

There are Effective Alternatives to Medication

“I don’t think I want to live if I have to go on feeling like this.” I hear this remark all too often from anxiety sufferers. They say it... Read more

Technotrap

When Work Becomes Your Second Home

Relentless stress in the high-tech workplace of the 21st century is taking an unprecedented toll on our emotional lives and our capacity to wind down at the... Read more

Riding the Waves

Neurofeedback: A Breakthrough with Learning Disabilities?

Neurofeedback is one of a group of new technologies that promises not only to treat the symptoms of mood, attention, and learning disorders, but to address the... Read more

Turning "I Can't" into "I Will"

How to Motivate Depressed Clients

Getting a depressed client mobilized to take the initial steps toward change can be the key to treatment. Read more

Margaret Wehrenberg

Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, author, and international trainer. Margaret blogs on depression and anxiety for Psychology Today. She has written nine books on the topic of managing anxiety depression, and her most recent book is Pandemic Anxiety: Fear. Stress, and Loss in Traumatic Times.