Robert - Bob Ryan, LMHC, ATR

04/04/2024

https://caringcounseling.blogspot.com/2015/07/living-with-adhd.html

Contrary to the label, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), this disorder’s symptoms often include a hyper awareness of internal...

02/13/2024

Here's a look into the simple practices that can help anyone get the most out of their counseling sessions.

Adapted by permission from Marina Williams, MA, LMHC No one wants to waste their time, and let's face it, those copays add up, so I deci...

02/04/2024

Continuing to repost my favorite posts on topics of interest to me. As I've passed a milestone of a birthday I find the topic of aging well of particular importance.

Aging is not a disorder, though for many healthy adults aging is treated as just that, a disorder. As we age what we may lose in muscle mass...

02/01/2024

So happy to announce my practice has a new home. https://www.thebungalowstpete.com/

01/17/2024

Details soon about my new office space in the meantime I continue to offer convenient telehealth services.

01/17/2024

Of course you've heard of Sigmund Freud and his methods, mocked in so many New Yorker cartoons, but most likely not Adlerian Psychology. However Alfred Adler’s concepts and practices are the underpinning of most modern day theories of counseling.

Most lay people have heard of Sigmund Freud and his Psychoanalytical method. It is the quintessential man-on-the-couch method mocked in so m...

01/17/2024

There's a reason so many therapists' pictures or of women. Men don't seek behavioral health services. Though they have the most to gain.

Older generations of men, notably our post WWII males, come to therapy reluctantly, if at all. Many men today are not so standoffish when ...

01/17/2024

Every have a heated disagreement with a sibling over a shared memory? Who's memory is it anyway?

The biased nature of our memories is a well-discussed phenomenon when and wherever siblings or old friends gather together; the main events ...

01/17/2024

How are you to move on when grieving is so personal, so different for every individual?

When the grieving process feels like betrayal, we are lost in a limbo of what could have been By now we have all heard of the airliner t...

01/17/2024

It is often much harder to say something nice about ourselves than others.

When self-promotion is called for, how do we push ourselves to communicate our own worth? Creating this new website has reminded me of a p...

01/17/2024

Parents, there is a different way to build socially responsible adults out of your children.

Parents and educators often think of wintertime as given over to academic learning, chauffeuring to and from after-school activities and, as...

05/02/2018

A bit after the fact but here is an article from my blog.
https://caringcounseling.blogspot.com/2017/11/are-we-wired-to-drive-in-city-traffic.html

Someone once said, “In the land of the free it’s my right to have an open lane in front of me at all times, and Lord help the person who...