nysateam, Author at Nysa Therapy

September 27 Lunch & Learn: Understanding Borderline Rage

We’re Launching Brand New Lunchtime Webinar Series for Therapists

August 27, 2021
Blogs, Training, Videos

We’re excited to offer a new personality disorder training series! At Nysa Therapy, we provide therapists and students studying to be mental health professionals with the skills and tools they need to effectively treat personality disorder. That’s why we are proud to announce the launch of our “Lunch & Learn”…

Pop Culture & PD: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

August 10, 2021
Blogs, Personality Disorders, Pop Culture & PD

Pop culture can be an excellent example and opportunity for learning about personality disorder. If you’ve seen it, you will never forget Jim Carey as Joel and Kate Winslet as Clementine in the 2004 cult classic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. If you don’t want to read spoilers, this blog…

Most people lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

Reflections on “Quiet” Personality Disorder

July 15, 2021
Blogs, Personality Disorders

Most people lead lives of quiet desperation. – Henry David Thoreau – As strange as this might sound, I’ve always loved this quote. Since I was a teenager this quote has explained a feeling I have about many of the people I meet every day. Most are friendly and appropriate…

What is Personality Disorder?

June 30, 2021
Blogs, Personality Disorders

What is Personality Disorder? We are often asked this question by both patients and clinicians. Our definition most certainly goes beyond what you’d find in the DSM, because at Nysa Therapy, our focus is on WHY personality disorder makes sense, and why mental health practitioners should EXPECT patients to act…

Forget LGBTQ+ Acceptance; We Celebrate! Honoring LGBTQ+ Pride Month.

June 7, 2021
Blogs

Happy Pride Month! June is here and that means we have a whole month to shout out our pride in the millions of LGBTQ+ family, friends, and communities around the world. All of us at Nysa Therapy are hardcore devoted supporters of LGBTQ+ people. There is a reason for this. …

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This Year, Let’s Throw Out Resolutions in Favor of Relationship

January 27, 2021
Blogs

As we enter the New Year, it is common for us to reflect on the past and set goals for the year ahead. While there is nothing inherently wrong with intention setting or making resolutions, these practices can miss the mark in therapy with patients who are struggling with personality…

Ta'Shanne has short curly black hair and is wearing a white blouse.

Congratulations, Ta’Shanne!

July 5, 2019
Nysa Clinic

It’s official! Congratulations to Ta’Shanne Horn for passing the licensing exam and becoming a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)! We are proud of all she has done to contribute to the Nysa Team, and inspired by her efforts to learn and develop as a clinical social worker.

We’ve Moved (Upstairs)

June 6, 2019
Nysa Clinic

We’ve been busy here at Nysa Therapy, and we’re moving up in the world — literally! Thanks to our Nysa Staff, we successfully relocated our office to the top floor of our building, and we are delighted to enjoy more space for our expanding work.

A stone path leading you through the green forest

Farewell to the Monday Night Discussion Group

August 20, 2018
Training

In December of 2015 I was working at Butte County Behavioral Health as a therapist in the Oroville Outpatient office. One of the psychiatrist with whom I worked pulled me aside one day and asked if I had had any specialized training in working with narcissism or personality disorders in…

Bright sunlight shines down on green meadows

Things are Happening!

August 18, 2018
Nysa Clinic

It’s been a pretty crazy couple of years since we opened the doors of Nysa Therapy here on Rio Lindo Avenue in April 2016. We wanted to be both a clinic and a place of learning. Our goal was to genuinely help out our patients using our integrative methods of…

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