James Marston
Recognizing Anxiety
In school, I had to write a “comprehensive theory of mental illness.” It was an academic exercise, intended to help a student with little...
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James Marston
- May 22
Active Listening
There’s this scene in movies and tv where the psychotherapist has their client lying on a couch, staring at the wall, talking. Meanwhile,...
James Marston
- Apr 29
Privacy and Confidentiality in Online Therapy
Confidentiality and privacy are essential to mental health treatment. The confidence that you can be yourself and allow yourself to be...
James Marston
- Apr 1
Trauma and PTSD
Almost every person I’ve ever treated for PTSD has compared their experience to someone else’s in a way that played down their own...
James Marston
- Mar 11
Kids and Attachment
Attachment is the connection that forms between a child and a caregiver in the earliest stages of childhood. This bond is partially...
James Marston
- Feb 19
Anxiety & Behavior in Children
Children are born feeling anxiety. The world is a scary place, and the only thing that makes a baby feel safe is their parents. Their...
James Marston
- Feb 3
Nature Vs. Nurture
I heard an advertisement recently for a company that tests your DNA to report on your ancestry. They said, “You can’t know yourself if...
James Marston
- Jan 21
Benign Confrontation
Confrontation can be necessary to set a boundary for one’s self, or to call out harmful or unwelcome behavior. Without confrontation, we...
James Marston
- Dec 7, 2022
Tips For Effective Communication
Accurate communication is an important part of maintaining healthy relationships. Miscommunications can cause hurt feelings, conflicts,...
James Marston
- Nov 14, 2022
Learning Communication Styles
Humans have needs, and humans like to have their needs met. In relationships, we have to communicate our needs to those we interact...
James Marston
- Aug 18, 2022
Boundaries are the thing that separates me from you.
There's a boundary between my experiences, my thoughts, my body, and your experiences, thoughts, and body. The space between them is both...
James Marston
- Jul 14, 2022
Try Anyway
They say it’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Anxiety would disagree. Anxiety is a feeling that tells us...
James Marston
- Jun 27, 2022
It's hard to believe we've been doing this for seven years...
Before Alliance Mental Health existed as it stands today, I was a therapist moonlighting Fridays and every other Saturday trying to save...
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