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What is all the buzz about mindfulness? Many of us have heard about the importance of being mindful, but how many of us really know what it means? Before the 1970’s, mindfulness only existed in Eastern societies that practiced Buddhist meditation. It was not until an American professor, Jon Kabat-Zinn, introduced the idea to theContinue reading “Mindfulness in the Modern World”

Dr. Lisa Saponaro Emotional Eating Radio Interview – click here Understanding our strengths and weaknesses is the first step toward making meaningful changes. Take a free screening below to identify your areas of growth.

Adolescence is a time when a young person begins to transition from childhood to adulthood. They experience behavioral, biological, social and psychological changes during “puberty.” The body creates a surge of hormone production creating physical changes and emotional changes that can lead to conflict. Group Therapy for adolescents can offer face-to-face interaction with other adolescents who talkContinue reading “Group Therapy Adolescents”

The brain changes associated with addiction can be treated and reversed through therapy, medication, exercise, and other treatments. Substance abuse and substance dependence can both be treated effectively. Substance abusers may not yet feel the compelling need to use the drug but with prolonged use may find that the drug is required to prevent withdrawContinue reading “Therapy for Substance Abuse”

Children, adolescents, and adults can greatly benefit from therapy. Therapy can help a person to discover underlying factors that cause them to feel or behave in a specific way. Therapy can also help a person to change negative thoughts, feelings, and behavior for positive ones. Child therapy can help a young person who is dealingContinue reading “Plantation Child Psychologist Provides Individual and Group Sessions for Youth”

Dr. Lisa Saponaro, your local Clinical Psychologist, has been practicing in her hometown of Plantation, Florida. Dr. Saponaro utilizes the contemporary concepts of Positive Psychology as a main part of her treatment philosophy to effectively approach sources of suffering such a depression or anxiety. After 20 years in the field of psychology, she knows thatContinue reading “Positive Psychology: We Nourish You Flourish”

Family Therapy can help both parents and children providing knowledge of ADHD such as what to expect and what adjustments might be required. Family therapy for ADHD can also help soothe family tension or sibling jealousy as the ADHD child is likely to receive an abundacne of attention from the parents, both good attention andContinue reading “ADHD Counseling”

Substance abuse often starts out as experimentation. Friends may suggest it be tried or they state that the substance has relieved their own discomfort and may help. Drugs are most often used to escape from mental or physical discomforts providing a short-term fix with long-term consequences. Take the drug away and the problem is stillContinue reading “Therapy for Substance Abuse”

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines a depressed person as experiencing feelings of sadness, helplessness and hopelessness. The exact numbers of people who have severe depression are not known but estimates indicate that about 12 million adults in the US have Depression Psychologist. Depression cuts across all barriers and affects all races,Continue reading “Depression Psychologist”

In the past twenty years, obesity has been on a continual up rise. According to the CDC over one, third of US, adults are obese and seventeen percent of children and adolescents are obese. Obesity is a concern for many reasons, which include the adverse effect on ones health, a reduced life expectancy, and increasedContinue reading “Fight US Obesity with Weight Loss Therapy”