Dianne Everitt

Clinical  Psychologist

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    Learning to Speak 'Amygdala': A Parent's Guide to the Teenage Brain

    April 12, 2019

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    Dianne Everitt

    I recently gave a talk to parents of teenagers. As I was describing the changes that take place in the teenage brain, it suddenly occurred to me that if you didn’t know I was talking about a teenager, you might think I was describing an entirely different species! One...

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    One Step Closer to Happiness: The Power of Connection

    January 12, 2018

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    Dianne Everitt

    When I was a student, I wrote a dissertation on Child Sex Trafficking. I set out to discover what young girls who had been trafficked had experienced, how they survived, and what life was like once they got out. What emerged from the study was that girls who had at lea...

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    The Lost Art of Rest and the Increase of Burnout

    June 20, 2017

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    Dianne Everitt

    Bob (a fictional character) comes to see me for the first time, and reports that he constantly feels tired, struggles to sleep at night, has developed a number of physical symptoms, and is generally feeling more emotional and less able to cope in his every day life tha...

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    The Vicious Cycle: Being Anxious about being Anxious

    April 29, 2016

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    Dianne Everitt

    Anxiety throws you into a vicious cycle that is always difficult to break. Let’s take Sam, for example. Sam was riding the bus one day, and suddenly he started to feel a little claustrophobic. He noticed his heart racing, his hands sweating, and he suddenly felt dizzy,...

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    When in Crisis...

    March 6, 2016

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    Dianne Everitt

    We’ve all been there. That moment when something happens and your world is turned upside down. A loss, a pending divorce, a(nother) family feud, a diagnosis, a meeting with your child’s teacher…the list is endless. I guess that’s because crisis is inevitable. First com...

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    Mud and Mirrors: building your self-esteem from the ground up

    February 21, 2016

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    Dianne Everitt

    One of the most common things I see in therapy is people battling with low self-esteem. This presents itself in many different forms. Sometimes it looks like a person very concerned with what other people think of them. Others constantly look for reassurance from peopl...

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