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

You're trying to find a great mental health provider. Can reading online reviews help? Finding your ideal mental health provider is not easy. It’s a deeply personal matchmaking process that falls, on the stressful relationship spectrum, somewhere between a blind date and a job interview. Among the many factors to consider are: interpersonal chemistry, gut-level comfort, logistical convenience, professional training and approach, as well as affordability. How exactly do you

I know you’re all very busy: I’ll try to be brief. I'm writing to you today about your employees’ health insurance. First, in general, I want to say that you’re doing a great job. Running a successful organization isn't easy, nor is figuring out what’s working, or not, with your employee benefits. All I’m asking is that you hear me out about something important that is overlooked by many leaders. You see, I work in a psychiatry practice. Believe it or not, for the past

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

In this, my first contribution to the BioPsychoSocial field journal, I will introduce myself and my journey as a business administrator in the oft-confusing and frequently not-so-business-like field of outpatient psychiatry. The introduction will take the form of a list of seven facts. I have an MBA. I’ll write more about that later. You may think you already know what having an MBA means, but you may be surprised about how I’m using mine. True fact: most outpatient psy