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Meet Cindy!

Meet Cindy!

Please welcome Cindy Martin, the new part-time Administrative Assistant at Wolcott Psychotherapy Associates. When you call or email for an appointment, Cindy is the skillful and kind person who will contact you. She abides by HIPAA standards and will honor and protect...

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Anxiety and Six Easy Ways To Interrupt the Stress Response

Anxiety and Six Easy Ways To Interrupt the Stress Response

Do you feel stressed out? Anxious? Is it hard for you to relax? Do you have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep? Feel panicky sometimes? Heart racing? Hard to take a deep breath? Does all this make it hard for you to function the way you’d like to?...

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How to Spot — and Handle — a Sociopath

How to Spot — and Handle — a Sociopath

Ted Bundy. Jeffrey Dahlmer. Danny Rolling. Jim Jones. David Koresh. Charles Manson. Hannibal Lecter. Aileen Wuornos. Norman Bates. Names you probably think of  — real and fiction — when you hear the word “sociopath”. But did you know that we ­cross paths with...

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The Essential Five

The Essential Five

A client asked me to read When Good People Have Affairs, by Mira Kirshenbaum. It’s a great book and I’ve already recommended it to a couple people. It’s unusual in that it’s written for, and from the point of view of, the person having the affair...

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Coping in the face of Tragedy

Coping in the face of Tragedy

The horror at Sandy Hook Elementary is 5 days in the past as I write this. I’ve heard it called “a 9-11 moment,” and that rings true. A sacred line has been crossed, the unthinkable has happened. Our collective innocence, not just that of the Sandy Hook children, has...

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