Over the last five years, I’ve had experience working with adolescents and adults who are struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma-related problems, obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance abuse, chronic pain, and relationship issues.

Among the most common questions I’m asked by people seeking help are:

• Does psychotherapy work?
• How does psychotherapy work? and
• Is psychotherapy effective for my problems?

In response to these questions, I spent three years researching and writing Getting Help: The Complete & Authoritative Guide to Self-Assessment & Treatment of Mental Health Problems.

Getting Help has made the process of finding the best help for your problems easy. In it, you’ll get:

• A symptoms checklist that will help you identify the mental health problem you might be struggling with
• The most up-to-date information about that problem, including its causes and treatments
• Information about 25 different treatments, so you’ll know what to expect when you walk in the door of a clinician
• A step-by-step process that helps you find the best clinician for your problem
• A guide to determine if your treatment is working, and what to do about it if it’s not

I’ve also co-authored The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for people struggling with the problems of overwhelming emotions and borderline personality disorder, as well as Therapy 101, a simple, easy-to-understand guide to therapy.