Whole TL/DR: How does therapy help manage ADHD? By helping you manage diet, exercise, sleep, medication, structure, and with tools in the therapy itself. Contact Me. Though I didn’t set out to become an expert in ADHD, by default, I have ended up working with ADHD fairly often in my practice. This is because ADHD…
Professional Achievements: Book, PUBLICATIONS, Presentations, & Media/News Mentions This page lists the awards, publications, media & news mentions for me, Eric FitzMedrud, Ph.D. I wrote an aWArd-winning Book! My book, The Better Man: A Guide to Consent, Stronger Relationships, and Hotter Sex, is in print. I’m honored to say that the book won the following…
Frequently, clients ask for help with their anger. I specialize in relationship and sexual issues, so the context of this request frequently includes anger in a relationship. For that reason, I’ve decided to share a couple of my thoughts about different types of anger in relationships. Before I go into this discussion, I want to…
Relationship Therapy Works: When and Why It is common for people who haven’t been in couples therapy to wonder if it works or not. Given that the reason I love my job is the rewarding feeling I get when I help a couple improve their relationship, and that this happens regularly, I wanted to offer…
Treating Erectile Disorder Starting With Questions About Good Sex Many men experience erectile disorder (ED). In my practice, I often see men who want to become better lovers. These men often come to treatment because something has gotten in the way of the erectile strength they previously enjoyed. Whether it is because of erectile disorder,…
As a therapist, I often find that questions are a more powerful tool than statements because questions allow us to discover what we don’t yet know. So, questions help clients learn more than me telling them things. In this blog entry I’m going to present and briefly describe some of the most common and powerful…
When prior couples therapy failed, and I am the next therapist, it is a different situation than when someone comes to me for individual therapy after prior individual therapy failed. While many therapists helping individuals have a specific therapeutic orientation (e.g., CBT or psychodynamic), there are few couples therapists who work exclusively in one model.…
Can Therapy Work If Prior Therapy Failed? I recently enjoyed celebrating the successful completion of treatment with several clients for whom prior therapy failed. In this post, I describe what I do differently when a client comes to me after prior therapy failed. I divide this into two types of therapy a client might have…
Though the lament of the challenge of work-life balance is heard throughout the United States at this time, I feel that Silicon Valley has a particularly intense case of this affliction. Where start-ups are rampant, and two or three-year-old companies are bought for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, the number of hours put…
The Bay Area has concentrated some of the most talented, intelligent, and high-performing people in the world. Often, when people call me for therapy, they are in that high-performing group. They often hesitate in the initial consult because they believe in many of the myths about high-performing people and about therapy. About high-performing people, they…