by Dr. George Geysen | Mar 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
I saw my first client 16 years ago. Then, being part of an insurance network was honorable and socially responsible. I knew for most clients and their families, having good healthcare was two things: essential and expensive. Belonging to insurance networks (I belonged...
by Dr. George Geysen | Aug 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Try to realize it’s all within yourself, no one else can make you change And to see you’re really only very small and life flows on within you and without you” – George Harrison I fondly remember attending a mindfulness meditation...
by Dr. George Geysen | Feb 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
“My mother says I’m still grieving over the loss of my father,” my new patient, a 42 year old father of one, an electrician lost in a loveless marriage of twelve years, told me. “He died six years ago.” Now, twenty years ago, back in my early days as a newly minted...
by Dr. George Geysen | Feb 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
It has been noted that there are over 450 schools of psychotherapy. I learned this over 20 years ago. My guess, is at least a hundred more have developed since then and more are sure to come. As we learn more about the mind, body and mind/body through science, e.g....
by Dr. George Geysen | Jan 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
During one year in my psychotherapy practice I received over twenty referrals from women referring their husbands for treatment. Typically, she had discovered he had been having an affair, e.g. online, texting, Facebook, or in physical reality (it does happen!). I’d...
by Dr. George Geysen | Jan 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
I was recently asked to speak to a group of psychology students at a university about careers in psychology. I have done so the past few years and greatly enjoy speaking to aspiring students. I have worked as a clinical psychologist for over 20 years, long enough...
by Dr. George Geysen | Dec 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
So you decided you want or need to see a psychologist or psychotherapist. You can’t take it anymore. Maybe it’s problems with a child at home. Perhaps its the insomnia, sadness and low motivation you can’t seem to shake. It could be something...
by Dr. George Geysen | Nov 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
I get this question often in my practice. What’s the difference? Night and day. Think of a psychotherapist as a healer, someone who takes aspects of your life as it is that may have resulted in suffering, e.g. anxiety, depression, addiction or other mental disorder...
by Dr. George Geysen | Nov 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
It’s that time again … holidays and the season of light. For most, it is a time of thanks, sharing, love and connection. It is also a time for reflection and of a reckoning of who is important to us in our families and how are we doing. Are there fences to...
by Dr. George Geysen | Sep 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
The concept of boundaries is one that has been labeled “psychobabble.” And yet, the word is a shorthand that conveys a simple meaning about a complex and important psychological construct. When you hear it, you know what it means. I’ll spare you the...
