Tonight, I’ll be heading to Vancouver to attend tomorrow’s all-day Mental Health Camp (Un)Conference. I’m very excited to be in a place with others who will be talking about erasing stigma towards mental illness and how social media can expand the possibilities for healing and support. Can blogging, Twittering, and Facebooking provide therapeutic healing? Isabella […]
I just found out that my proposal for Mental Health Camp has been accepted. My panel is called, “Social Networking, Visibility, and the Therapeutic Alliance.” It will be in conversation format and will address issues related to the therapist-client relationship and how both clients and therapists feel about sharing online social spaces. I first heard […]
I wanted to provide an update on my recent experience at SXSW Interactive. I didn’t get to go to every panel I’d wanted to attend, but I believe most people come home from SXSW feeling that way. Therapy 2.0: Mental Health For Geeks which I co-presented with Thomas Roche, was well attended with somewhere between […]
Melissa Gira interviewed me over on Sexerati in preparation for my SXSW panel, Therapy 2.0: Mental Health for Geeks. Check out the interview to read Melissa’s questions and my answers about how a geek-friendly therapist (me!) would help a client manage challenges and stressors related to dating, love, and breakups 2.0. Of course, if you […]
I’ve joked for weeks that I’ve been wanting to blog about procrastination, but other things kept getting in the way. Joking aside, this is a serious matter. Even if you don’t procrastinate, most of us have experienced difficulty in structuring our time to complete a task at one time or another. This can happen with […]
A couple of SXSW panels that I’d really like to attend managed to slip through the cracks. I’m going to blame it on the plethora of amazing talks and panels overwhelming me on my first pass. But I want to give these two a mention, as I think they should be very interesting. Friendship is […]
In my last post, I wrote about some of the panels I’m looking forward to attending at SXSW this year that relate to technology, health, and relationships. In case you thought I’d forgotten to mention the ones that relate to human sexuality, be assured that I simply thought they deserved their own feature. I believe […]
In exactly two weeks, I will be heading to Austin, Texas to participate in SXSW Interactive which takes place from March 13-17th. I’m excited to see a number of panels this year that are addressing the intersection of technology, health, and relationships—all things I spend a great deal of my time obsessing over. Here are […]
BBC News published a story yesterday on internet use and how it may counteract some of the slowing down of the brain that occurs with age. The study only looked at subjects between the ages of 55 and 76 and compared web search activity with book reading and found that web searches engaged additional parts […]
S.F. Chronicle columnist Violet Blue interviewed me about my thoughts on cybersex, monogamy, and relationships for her “Open Source Sex,” column this week, “Is Cybersex Cheating?”. The full interview can be read on Violet’s blog. I wish I’d said a bit more about the feelings of emotional intimacy that can take some people by surprise […]