March - 2010 Newsletter
Greetings from all of the staff at Holtz Psychological Services. We are very proud to officially announce the launch of our newly re-designed website! Go explore at www.Therapy-Now.com! Although Dr. Fred is fond of reminding us all that he had a web site before there was even an internet... we have recently remodeled our site to make it even more user friendly and overflowing with useful information about our services, depression, anxiety, relationships, assertiveness, and much more.
HPS News...
We are pleased to announce the addition of two new staff members! You can read about their background and experience at the website: Dr. Tracy Gangi has over fifteen years of experience providing services to children, adolescents, adults, and couples. Dr. Tracy has hours available several afternoons and evenings during the week and is also in the office on Saturdays. Ginger Galvez, LMSW, is a Social Worker with extensive experience providing effective psychotherapy with children, adolescents and adults. She specializes in anxiety and depressive disorders, physical and learning disabilities, crisis intervention, social skills training and behavior management. Ginger has office hours available several afternoons and evenings per week.
Check us out on Youtube! Search youtube.com for HoltzPsychological (one word) or simply go to our website where you will find a link to the HPS Youtube channel. Please take some time to watch our client testimonials or give yourself a break and unwind for six minutes with our new relaxation video. Subscribe to HoltzPsychological to receive great updates!
While on our website please take a look at our Blog which contains useful advice and other resources on a variety of mental health issues, parenting tips, and other topics of interest. Have a question? Post it to the blog and feel free to join! Your questions will be promptly answered by our professional staff.
For those of you who have tried HPS Less Stress vitamin formula, remember that re-orders can be placed with your therapist (we have a small supply at the office), through Marissa, our office manager, or on the web at http://www.therapy-now.com/products.html. For those who have yet to try this formula please read about it at the link above or pick up a flyer from our waiting room.
STOP WORRYING NOW!
"Worry" is one of the most common difficulties that bring people to our office. Chronic worry can seem like a continuous stream of negativity that intrudes on our minds and is hard for us to escape. Worry is not usually focused on one thing, but often we jump from one worry thought to another and to another and to another. Despite feeling consumed with worry there are some things you can start doing right now to worry less and live freer and easier.
- Get to know your worry -- Start identifying your own sources of stress and worry; keep a record or journal of worry thoughts, sometimes just writing them down helps us to clear our minds.
- Be your own best friend -- engage in positive self talk, for every worry thought remind yourself of something positive in your own life, however, small or trivial it might seem.
- Just the facts madam -- Challenge yourself, ask yourself how plausible are these worries? Ask yourself what is the worst that can happen? Perhaps it is not as bad as you fear.
- Accentuate the positive -- Sell yourself on a positive outcome, imagine all of the good you can create from your worry by generating positive thoughts!
- Take perspective -- ask yourself will this be such a big deal a week from now? A month?
- Decide -- Making a decision is an active process; Review what you have learned about your worry thoughts, put your energy into positive self talk, reminders of things that are positive; make a decision to "leave your worries behind" and commit to it. NOW!
Simple tips to make today matter.... - Do it NOW! Avoid procrastination -- every time you put something off you are delaying your life, be like Nike and "Just Do It!" Besides, it feels great to cross things off your list.
- Practice Makes Perfect! -- Visualize being successful at whatever it is you are trying to accomplish. Practice seeing yourself attain your goal today, and tomorrow you will!
- Be Clear! -- Outline what you want to accomplish, if you don't know where you are going how will you know when you get there?
- Embrace... no, learn to LOVE failure -- Yes you read right! It is through failure that we learn, so take big risks, go for the brass ring, and if you should at first fail, dust yourself off, figure out what to do differently, and succeed the next time!
If you or a loved one struggle with worry, anxiety, stress, or need any other assistance please call and speak to one of our staff members today!
