As more young people identify as transgender, a fight has re-emerged over therapy that questions their gender identities. By Amy Harmon Since at least a decade ago, a rare consensus has prevailed on a ...

The US Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday that will determine whether a Colorado law that prohibits licensed mental health professionals from providing conversion “therapy” to minors is constitutional ...

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Speech therapy is a treatment for speech, language, and voice disorders. During speech therapy, you or your child works with a speech-language pathologist (SLP), who teaches you how to speak more ...

Psychotherapy—also known as talk therapy or just therapy—is a form of mental health treatment. There's a wide range of types of therapy that a mental health specialist can use, such as cognitive ...

Its been five years of touch starvation. I’ll probably have some more years of it. I’m not handling this well. Lisbeth continued, “I feel like I’m dying from touch starvation, y’all. I don’t get hugs.

Married couple Drs. Michelle Dexter and Richard Jelusich co-own Bamboo Garden Wellness Center in Encinitas, which opened in 2022. Dr. Dexter, an Integrative Psychologist and Sexologist with over 20 ...

Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is a therapy for autism that encourages certain behaviors and discourages others. ABA therapy is controversial, as some argue that it reinforces the idea that autistic ...

Although AI adoption is only ramping up, millions of people, especially youth, are already actively using mental health apps. According to statistics, many patients are more sincere with chatbots than ...

Many Americans who need therapy are discouraged by the cost. But there are options to make it more affordable. By Jenny Singer In 2019, Lydia Bugg was working from home when a man tried to break into ...

Programs called wilderness therapy or outdoor behavioral health care take many forms. But they usually involve taking groups of teens out into the woods, mountains, or desert for long periods of time ...