‘Therapy’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist

Q: My daughter is a freshman at our local college and currently living in a student apartment. Up until last year she had never been in serious trouble of any kind, but she met a boy who was not in the same intellectual circle as she, and things went downhill from there.
During her last year [...]

Q: I am a single dad with two children. It wasn’t always that way, but their mother simply can’t deal with them. She only has them 4 days per month but still seems to have difficulty handling them because they stress her out so much.
I started seeing the children’s mother 12 years ago. We had [...]

Q: I’m a 16-year-old student in the 11th grade. Since the age of 12, I’ve experienced occasional bouts of depression and have struggled with fears such as the fear of death and so on. Recently, my anxiety has increased, and I’m under a lot of stress because of my studies. On top of that, whenever [...]

Q: I’m 26 years old, and I was sexually abused when I was 10. My abuser was my brother’s best mate whom my mum had taken in. The day after it happened, he robbed our house, and we have never seen him again.
Although I’ve never really told too many others what happened, I’ve lived with [...]

Q: The first time this happened was when I was younger. Somebody did something, and I just got so mad that I hit him. Since I’ve gotten older, I’ve done this a time or two. I don’t beat the crap out of anyone! But I do hurt and hit them. When I realize that I’ve [...]