One’s basal metabolic rate accounts for 65-70% of calories burned per day. Go to BMI Calculator to determine your BMR (# of calories burned at rest).
From there, you can determine your daily caloric needs based on your activity level with the Harris Benedict equation.
Psychotherapy can have benefits and risks. Therapy often involves discussing unpleasant aspects of your life, which may cause uncomfortable feelings like sadness, anger, guilt, frustration, loneliness, and helplessness. It is not unusual to experience a period of increased emotional distress, as you will be exploring and addressing issues that you have previously worked hard to defend against. Successful psychotherapy has been shown to lead to better interpersonal relationships, solutions to specific problems, and an increased ability to regulate and tolerate states of emotional distress.
There are many reasons people choose psychotherapy.
If you find yourself struggling to deal with one of the issues below, you don’t have to suffer in silence and you shouldn’t have to manage alone.
Below are some helpful links:
Eating Disorders/Body Dysmorphia
Relationship/Interpersonal difficulties
Addiction (substance abuse, etc.)
Sexual Identity Issues: Gender Identity Disorder
Pervasive Developmental Disorders (Autism, Asperger’s Disorder)
One of the many benefits of therapy includes the identification of self perpetuated, unconscious themes and/or patterns causing the individual pain. Making the unconscious, conscious is the first step toward resolution.
My therapeutic orientation is psychodynamic and therefore works on addressing the underlying, often unconscious issues that are manifesting as symptoms or problematic behavior. Specifically, I utilize an object relations approach to therapy, which helps clients gain insight into their internal world, their patterns of relating and attaching, and their use of psychological defense mechanisms.
This type of therapy rests on the principles that our personalities are the result of many different developmental stages. What happens when we are infants, children, adolescents, and young adults shapes the way we see the world, the kind of relationships that we have, the way we feel about ourselves in relations to others, and the needs we seek to have fulfilled.
Through the process of therapy, you will be encouraged to get in touch with the past in order to re-examine and process the formative and sometimes painful experiences unique to you. As treatment unfolds and progresses, you will have a greater understanding and awareness of your internal world, your unconscious motivations, and your choice in relationships. As rigid and maladaptive schemas are abandoned, you will experience more fulfillment and freedom in important areas.
“Addiction is a chronic and relapsing brain disease characterized by uncontrollable drug seeking behavior and use. It persists even with the knowledge of negative health consequences.” Scott Lucas