Learn about autism, individual support needs, and how therapy can help with anxiety, relationships, and the exhaustion of masking. Meet Dr. Shannon Brazee, who provides online therapy throughout California.

Try four short Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) practices for noticing thoughts, grounding yourself, and taking steps toward what matters to you.

Explore how obsessional doubt can overshadow everyday information, using a harm-related OCD example to explain an inference-based approach.

Learn how the search for complete certainty can lead to checking and other compulsions, and how exposure and response prevention (ERP) addresses this pattern.

Use the D.O.T.S. reminder to recognize common ways of avoiding uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, through an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) lens.

An overview of four sources of mental health support: medication, psychotherapy, exercise, and social connection.

Recognize common thinking patterns addressed in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), including all-or-nothing thinking, mind reading, and emotional reasoning.

Dr. Mason reviews David Burns’s Feeling Great, including its Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools and TEAM approach to emotional distress.

An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) exercise uses an unwanted beach ball to illustrate the effort of avoidance and explores 12 common stories that can hook us.

An introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), including mindfulness, acceptance, values, and taking meaningful action alongside difficult feelings.

A review of Russ Harris’s The Happiness Trap and its practical introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and living by your values.

Learn how exposure and response prevention (ERP) approaches OCD triggers and compulsions, illustrated with a contamination-related example.