Victoria Buttery, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice based in San Diego. She specializes in treating PTSD and trauma-related distress using evidence-based approaches, and integrating a client’s faith into the healing process. She was...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop in people who have experienced a shocking or dangerous event. There has been a lot of study into why some people develop PTSD and others do not. In addition, PTSD can present very differently amongst sufferers. Because...
In a phase 3 trial of 90 participants, 67% of patients who received MDMA with talk therapy no longer met criteria for the PTSD diagnosis. This exciting news comes at a time when more research is being conducted on previously banned substances, and it could pave the...
Whitney Boole is a therapist, coach and writer in private practice in Hermosa Beach, CA. Her book ‘You Got This: Healing Through Divorce’ is a therapeutic guidebook through divorce and it inspired Whitney to create a Facebook group and a wealth of resources including...
Dr. Emily Hu is a licensed clinical psychologist with Thrive Psychology Group in Los Angeles who specializes in treating trauma and addictions. Her work encompasses themes of resilience, strength, social support, and finding and unapologetically living one’s...
On the KCRW Life Examined podcast, poet Jane Hirshfield discusses how poetry is aptly suited to help us find peace and clarity in difficult times, such as now. Art has always had the ability to speak to our souls on some transcendental level. There is a reason people...
