Mindy Fox, LMFT is a mental health therapist in California. She specializes in anxiety, depression and healing from trauma. Her offices are in Santa Monica and Torrance, CA and she offers teletherapy across the state of California.
If you have impulse control issues, you may want to try neurofeedback for ADHD. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD is very challenging to live with. Symptoms such as oversharing and interrupting are impulse control issues that are common signs of ADHD. It impacts your work and academic performance, as well as interpersonal relationships. It can…
As many women can attest to, menopause and sex drive are strongly related. Loss of libido is a common symptom of menopause. Low sex drive can make you feel depressed, frustrated and effects your relationship with your partner. Addressing menopause and sex drive and restoring your sex life is important for your relationship. Many couples,…
Healing from betrayal trauma, while living with your partner, is possible. Infidelity is common, and brings your entire relationship into question. Processing all this takes time and raises many issues. Should you stay? Can you rebuild trust? How long will this take? These are all important things to think and talk about. Healing from betrayal…
With a husband always in a bad mood, angry, depressed, sad and cranky, there are things you can do. Moodiness affects the marriage and the flow between the two of you. When your husband is easily irritated, if affects the couples mood. You focus on the other persons faults and short comings. This makes it…
Neurofeedback therapy has the potential to help you find relief, even if you’ve had limited success with talk therapy and/or medication in the past. If you want to feel more like yourself again, without retelling your story, neurofeedback might be for you. Neurofeeback is brain training to increase self-regulation and resiliency. The brain works by…
Menopause is a life-changing rite of passage, so it is no wonder menopause and divorce can go hand in hand. Learning how to address your conflicts before it’s too late is important. For couples over 55, the divorce rate is rising. It turns out that 60 percent of divorces are initiated by women in their…
It can be surprising, and even shocking, when repressed childhood trauma shows up when you are an adult. Unfortunately, the past does not always stay in the past. When you have childhood trauma, you can get used to normalizing unhealthy behavior. Therefore, you may not even realize your family was dysfunctional. As an adult, you…
Chronic procrastination is often misunderstood. People will misinterpret and simplify procrastination as you just being lazy. This can cause you to feel chronic shame and guilt for not being more productive and on top of things. This leads to low self esteem. Let’s consider chronic procrastination as a trauma response. Trauma from your past, or…
We should not underestimate the trauma of being an adult child of divorce. Divorce is the death of a marriage, therefore, healing the trauma of adult children inevitably involves grief. As an adult child of divorce, you probably don’t even realize you are grieving. This type of grief can often be invisible and unacknowledged. You…
Vulnerable narcissism, also known as covert or insecure narcissism, avoids the spotlight and uses passive-aggressive communication as a way to control others. They aren’t exactly introverted, but instead lack the self confidence of an overt narcissist. They are afraid of being exposed or humiliated, and constantly play the victim. Beware The Tyranny Of The Weak…