Cognitive behavioral therapy is the gold standard for insomnia treatment. Now there's an app for it. Insomnia can be one of the most frustrating experiences of adult life. On top of losing vital sleep, one can feel helpless about how to fall asleep. It leads many patients to our practice, on its own or in combination with other issues. Unfortunately, lasting sleep improvement rarely comes from a magical formula mixed into a pill or a few words bestowed by a provider. Immed

It may come as a surprise, but when it comes to evolving mental healthcare, clinicians and researchers may benefit by taking a thoughtful look at software development. Here's why. The human brain has often been coined the most complex organ in the universe. Wouldn’t it make sense then to believe the mind lives within a similar ballpark of complexity? Psychiatry or mental healthcare exists largely to treat problems of the mind. How then do we address questions regarding ed

We gathered and tracked PHQ-9 test results from forty of our clients. Did we improve their mood—or did we just collect a lot of paper? In our first blog entry on this topic, we talked about why we believe tracking treatment outcomes in numbers with reliable tools, such as the PHQ-9, is key to providing a client with the best chance at achieving his or her treatment goals. Now you may be thinking, do these people really think that they can derive meaningful information on som

In medicine, adding the words “evidence” and “valid” to an instrument, treatment, or concept lends them a sense of gravity and certainty—almost as if the words themselves are some kind of effectiveness insurance policy. An Evidence Based Treatment is a method of care developed by experimental design and in-depth analysis of statistical data. The goal: to derive the most reliable, vetted practice guidelines for a particular diagnosis. Typical names for it are Evidence-Based Me