Therapy in a Nutshell

By Therapy in a Nutshell -Emma McAdam

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I’m Emma McAdam, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and my mission is to make mental health resources more easy to access. I take therapy skills and psychological research and condense them down into bite-sized nuggets of help. I’m here to spread the message that while mental illness is real, it’s common, it’s debilitating, it’s also treatable. There are dozens of research-backed approaches to treating depression, anxiety, and other mental illness. Change, growth, and healing are possible. Please keep courage! Try one little thing every day to improve your life and health and things can get so much better! Therapy in a Nutshell, and the information provided by Emma McAdam, is solely intended for informational and entertainment purposes and is not a substitute for advice, diagnosis, or treatment regarding medical or mental health conditions. Although Emma McAdam is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the views expressed on this site or any related content should not be taken for medical or psychiatric advice. Always consult your physician before making any decisions related to your physical or mental health. Therapy in a Nutshell and it’s logo are Registered Trademarks of Therapy in a Nutshell, LLC

Episode Date
The Sneaky Mental Rule that Lets your Emotions Control You
Apr 24, 2025
How to Stop Nightmares in Adults w/ PTSD - Rescripting Nightmares with CBT for Nightmares Protocol
Apr 21, 2025
How to Build an Internal Locus of Control
Apr 10, 2025
How to Create a Crisis Safety Plan for Suicidal Thoughts
Apr 04, 2025
Talking about Trauma won't heal you
Mar 22, 2025
The Hidden Root Cause of Anxiety and Depression- Codependency With Dr. Sarah Michaud
Mar 17, 2025
9 Life Changing Treatments for Treatment Resistant Depression
Mar 13, 2025
THIS Mental Habit Fuels Depression - The Cognitive Distortion of Discounting the Positive
Mar 10, 2025
10 Quick Questions about OCD with Nathan Peterson
Mar 07, 2025
Lasting Treatments for Anxiety vs. Coping Skills - Is THIS why Therapy isn't working?
Feb 20, 2025
5 Lies Depression Tells You - Depression Motivation, it gets better
Feb 14, 2025
Depression in the Nervous System
Feb 07, 2025
Setting a Boundary vs. Trying to Control Someone
Jan 30, 2025
Hate Affirmations? How to Improve your Self-Esteem Anyway
Jan 23, 2025
The Body Keeps the Score - Book Summary by a Therapist w/o the Triggering Bits
Jan 13, 2025
The Keto Cure? Groundbreaking Research into Metabolic Treatments for Mental Health Conditions
Jan 03, 2025
Why Trauma and Stress Trigger Weight Gain and Diabetes (Hint, it's Cortisol)
Dec 27, 2024
Re-Regulating your Nervous System after CPTSD with Crappy Childhood Fairy Anna Runkle
Dec 19, 2024
The Science Behind Morning Depression (And What to Do About It)
Dec 16, 2024
Setting Boundaries with Kindness
Dec 13, 2024
What to Eat to Improve Your Mood
Dec 06, 2024
How Childhood Trauma Affects the Brain and Body - The ACES Study
Nov 18, 2024
14 Things that Actually Help Severe Anxiety
Nov 12, 2024
Overthinking and Intrusive Thoughts - 6 Phrases to get Unstuck from Overthinking and Uncertainty
Oct 25, 2024
Feeling Like You're Never Good Enough?
Oct 16, 2024
4 Essential Sleep Routines
Oct 04, 2024
Complex Feelings and Shame about Childhood Sexual Abuse
Sep 26, 2024
Why am I Anxious? A Quick Assessment
Sep 20, 2024
Diagnosis Creep
Sep 12, 2024
Why You Blame Yourself for Everything
Sep 05, 2024
Stop Struggling with Insomnia with Dr Martin Reed
Aug 22, 2024
How to Forgive
Aug 15, 2024
Time Blindness - An ADHD or Executive Dysfunction Trait
Aug 08, 2024
Behavioral Activation: How to Get Motivated to Do Stuff that You Don't Want to Do : Day 30 Break the Anxiety Cycle
Aug 01, 2024
What is Executive Function - And Why is Executive Dysfunction so bad for Mental Health?
Jul 26, 2024
Finding Purpose and Meaning to Overcome Anxiety - Day 29 Break the Anxiety Cycle
Jul 18, 2024
Guided Meditation - The Container Method - for Processing Trauma, PTSD and Intense Emotions
Jul 15, 2024
The Container Method for Processing Trauma, PTSD and Intense Emotions
Jul 12, 2024
What Agoraphobia REALLY is, and how to overcome it
Jul 04, 2024
Boundaries for Anxious Folk - Day 28 Break the Anxiety Cycle
Jun 27, 2024
Insomnia- How to Fall Asleep When your Brain Won't Shut Up!
Jun 20, 2024
How to do Exposure Therapy for Fears and Anxiety: Day 27 Break the Anxiety Cycle
May 25, 2024
Solving Actual Problems (Instead of Just Coping Skills) - Day 26 Break the Anxiety Cycle
May 24, 2024
How to Deal with Uncertainty - Without Self-Sabotage
May 17, 2024
Exploring a Sensory Diet for Emotional Regulation - Sensory Processing Disorders
May 16, 2024
Menopause and Mental Health with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
May 03, 2024
Breathing Exercises for Anxiety: Day 25 Break the Anxiety Cycle
Apr 29, 2024
Sensory Needs Quiz- Your Sensory Needs Assessment
Apr 19, 2024
My New Favorite Vagus Nerve Exercise for Anxiety or Trauma Recovery - The Voo Breath or Foghorn
Apr 08, 2024
What to do with Anxiety in Your Body - Day 24 Break the Anxiety Cycle
Mar 28, 2024
Window of Tolerance -An Essential Skill for PTSD, Trauma and Nervous System Regulation
Mar 22, 2024
Building an Internal Sense of Safety for PTSD, Trauma or Anxiety: Day 23 Break the Anxiety Cycle
Mar 08, 2024
How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
Mar 04, 2024
How to Turn on the Parasympathetic Response to Calm Anxiety: Day 22 of Break the Anxiety Cycle
Feb 22, 2024
THIS guy solved Panic Attacks after 30 years of Panic Disorder
Feb 16, 2024
How to Stop Taking Things Personally
Feb 08, 2024
The Essential Skill to Regulate Your Nervous System - Relaxed Vigilance vs. Hypervigilance: Day 21 Break the Anxiety Cycle
Feb 01, 2024
Understanding Anxiety in the Nervous System: Day 20 Break the Anxiety Cycle
Jan 25, 2024
Flip Anxiety on Its Head With 2 Words: Day 19 Break the Anxiety Cycle
Jan 19, 2024
Emotional Reasoning: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 18
Jan 11, 2024
How to Let Go of the Past - 3 Steps for Regret
Jan 07, 2024
Stop Catastrophizing About Your Future: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 17
Dec 28, 2023
How to Overcome Burnout from a Body-Based Perspective w Dr. Laura Hays, MD
Dec 22, 2023
Why Your Brain Defaults to Scarcity: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 16
Dec 14, 2023
Managing Anxiety and Anxious Thoughts: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 15
Dec 07, 2023
Crisis to Calm: 4 DBT skills with Dr. Monica Johnson
Nov 30, 2023
How to Stop Worrying: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 14
Nov 23, 2023
How to Stop Overthinking: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 13
Nov 16, 2023
Anxiety about Anxiety: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 12
Nov 09, 2023
Automatic Negative Thoughts: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 11
Nov 02, 2023
10 Medical Conditions that Mimic Anxiety: Anxiety Course Day 10
Oct 19, 2023
Letting Go of Shame as an HSP Highly Sensitive Person: Anxiety Course Day 9
Oct 12, 2023
What Causes Anxiety Disorders: Anxiety Course Day 8
Oct 05, 2023
How the Medical Model creates Learned Helplessness: Anxiety Course Day 7
Sep 29, 2023
The 7 Types of Anxiety Disorders - Anxiety Course Day 6
Sep 21, 2023
The Surprising Symptom of Depression- Anger and Irritability
Sep 14, 2023
Willingness - Anxiety Course Day 5
Sep 07, 2023
Avoidance - Anxiety Course Day 4
Sep 01, 2023
Bonus Episode: Trichotillomania with Michael Twohig
Aug 29, 2023
Rewiring Anxiety - Anxiety Course Day 3
Aug 25, 2023
How Trauma Gets Trapped in the Body with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Aug 10, 2023
What is Anxiety Really? Anxiety Course Day 2
Aug 04, 2023
Finding Your Why - Anxiety Course Day 1
Jul 28, 2023
Free Anxiety Course Introduction - How’s Your Relationship with Anxiety?
Jul 24, 2023
How to be Happier - An Exercise from Positive Psychology and the book The Power of Moments
Jul 14, 2023
Our Top 3 Tips for Anxiety with Nick Wignall
Jun 24, 2023
Don’t Believe Everything You Think: How these 3 Cognitive Distortions make you miserable
Jun 15, 2023
12 Things You Can Do to Help Someone with Anxiety: Anxious Children Part 4/4
Jun 08, 2023
Coping Skills for Kids With Anxiety Part 3/4
Jun 01, 2023
Does Relaxing Make You Anxious?
May 25, 2023
Conflict Management for the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) with Jonathan Decker from CINEMA THERAPY
May 18, 2023
How to Create Emotional Safety for Someone with Anxiety- Dealing with Anxiety in Children Part 2/4
May 11, 2023
Journaling for Trauma
May 04, 2023
How to Help a Child with Anxiety 1/4
Apr 28, 2023
How to Make a Decision When you Struggle with Executive Functioning
Apr 20, 2023
Dissociation, Depersonalisation, and Derealization - How to come back when you dissociate.
Apr 13, 2023
Emotional Eating - How to Replace Emotional Eating with Emotion Processing and Intuitive Eating
Apr 06, 2023
How to Identify Your Emotions - How to Feel Your Feelings
Mar 23, 2023
Feel Overwhelmed? Try this 30 Second Technique
Mar 16, 2023
How to Be More Resilient: 6 Traits of Resilient People Featuring Laura Kampf
Mar 10, 2023
Dr. Martin Rossman Part 2: How to Combat Worry with Imagination
Mar 06, 2023
Dr Martin Rossman Part 1: Whole Body Treatment for Wellness
Mar 06, 2023
Therapist vs. Artificial Intelligence Answer Your Questions
Mar 03, 2023
How to Stop Overthinking Decisions and Overcome Analysis Paralysis
Feb 23, 2023
How to Stop Saying Sorry Too Much - Stop Over-Apologizing
Feb 18, 2023
Grief Expert Answers Your Questions about Grief and Loss
Feb 09, 2023
How to Stop Beating Yourself Up
Feb 02, 2023
Bonus Interview: Sound Sensitivity with Dr. Lindsey Tubaugh
Jan 30, 2023
How to Regulate Your Nervous System
Jan 26, 2023
Bonus Episode: Gut Health and Mental Health with Dr. Nikki Dinezza
Jan 24, 2023
How to Be Less Emotionally Reactive - Black and White Thinking
Jan 19, 2023
The Brain-Gut Microbiome Axis and Its Impact on Mental Health
Jan 12, 2023
Guided Walkthrough to Stop a Panic Attack
Jan 05, 2023
Atomic Habits for Mental Health
Dec 29, 2022
The Surprising Way Alcohol MakesYour Brain More Anxious with Amber Hollingsworth
Dec 24, 2022
How Genetic is Mental Illness Actually? Heritability Estimates for Mental Health and The Role Genes Play
Dec 15, 2022
Do Sounds Make You Anxious or Angry? Auditory Sensitivity Overlaps Anxiety and Mental Health
Dec 08, 2022
Repressed Memories: Can You Forget About Trauma?
Dec 02, 2022
9 Ways Grief Impacts the Body
Nov 28, 2022
The 3 States of Anxiety or Trauma in the Nervous System
Nov 26, 2022
A guided Walkthrough for Getting through an Anxiety Attack
Nov 17, 2022
The 6 Most Common Types of Intrusive Thoughts
Nov 03, 2022
6 Thinking Patterns that Make OCD and Anxiety Worse
Oct 27, 2022
3 Subconscious Reasons Why You Worry
Oct 27, 2022
This Skill Treats Insomnia 80% of the Time
Oct 24, 2022
Wait, What?! Depression is Not Caused by A Chemical Imbalance?
Oct 17, 2022
The Myth of the Chemical Imbalance: What Causes Depression? (Lost Connections Summary Part 1)
Oct 13, 2022
How to Be Happy Part 3: Daily Habits of Happy People
Oct 12, 2022
How to Be Happy Part 2: Why American Self-Help Backfires
Oct 11, 2022
How to Be Happy Part 1: 4 Steps to Be Happier in 1 Month
Oct 10, 2022
4 Ways to Heal From Your Past (Traumatic Memories Part 2)
Oct 06, 2022
5 Foods that Naturally Decrease Cortisol (The Stress Hormone)
Oct 03, 2022
4 Ways Trauma/PTSD Distorts Memories
Sep 29, 2022
Overcome Social Anxiety | Medication and Therapy Options With Dr. Tracey Marks
Sep 26, 2022
How to Stop an Anxiety Attack
Sep 22, 2022
7 Anxiety Myths Most People Believe with Dr. Nick Wignall
Sep 19, 2022
Postpartum Anxiety and OCD Coping Skills
Sep 15, 2022
How to Stop Catastrophizing
Sep 13, 2022
Quick Start Guide to Anxiety Treatment
Sep 12, 2022
Overthinking Part 4: Social Anxiety
Sep 08, 2022
Overthinking Part 3: How to Stop Depressive Rumination
Sep 07, 2022
Overthinking Part 2: 6 Therapy Skills to Stop Overthinking Everything
Sep 06, 2022
Overthinking Part 1: The 4 Subconscious Reasons You Overthink Everything
Sep 05, 2022
The 10 Best Books for Healing Trauma/PTSD
Sep 01, 2022
PTSD Treatment Options: How to Find a Good Trauma Therapist
Aug 29, 2022
7 Signs You’re Not Processing Your Grief
Aug 25, 2022
How to Deal With Anxiety at Night: 2 Essential Skills
Aug 22, 2022
How Grief Shows up in the Body
Aug 10, 2022
How To Find Free or Affordable Therapy
Mar 31, 2022
Ketamine Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression
Mar 25, 2022
Mastering the Paradox of Acceptance and Change With Anxiety
Mar 17, 2022
Are You Ask Culture or Guess Culture? This Communication Skill Is Life-Changing
Mar 10, 2022
4 Ways to Manage News Anxiety
Mar 10, 2022
Morning Anxiety? It Might Be Cortisol Awakening Response
Mar 08, 2022
How Self-Diagnosis Can Harm You
Feb 02, 2022
How to Stop the Shame Spiral
Jan 30, 2022
How to Stop Panic Attacks 3/3
Jan 28, 2022
The Panic Attack Cycle 2/3 How to Stop Panic Attacks
Jan 07, 2022
What’s the Difference Between Panic Attacks, Anxiety Attacks, and Panic Disorder? 1/3 Panic Attacks
Jan 03, 2022
Is This Why You’re Depressed? Stop Should-ing on Yourself
Dec 31, 2021
How to Release Trauma From Your Body
Dec 13, 2021
30/30 What‘s the Core Issue? How to Actually Change
Nov 27, 2021
29/30 Self-Compassion as the Source of Change
Nov 25, 2021
28/30 A GROWTH Mindset vs. a FIXED Mindset
Nov 23, 2021
27/30 Get Rid of Self-Limiting Beliefs: How to Process Emotions
Oct 25, 2021
26/30 Fight Depression and Anxiety With Your Core Values: How to Process Emotions
Oct 22, 2021
25/30 Why Trying to Feel Happy Backfires: Purpose vs. Happiness: How to Process Emotions
Oct 20, 2021
24/30 How to Create the Life You Want, One Small Change at a Time: How to Process Emotions
Oct 18, 2021
23/30 Self-Deception: The Problem of Not Knowing You Have a Problem: How to Process Emotions
Oct 13, 2021
Q & A About Anxiety with Bob and Brad and Therapy in a Nutshell
Oct 11, 2021
22/30 Cognitive Dissonance: How to Process Your Emotions
Aug 24, 2021
21/30 Mindfulness for Anxiety: A Beginner‘s Guide: How to Process Emotions
Jul 16, 2021
20/30 Intrusive Thoughts and Overthinking: The Skill of Cognitive Defusion: How to Process Your Emotions
Jul 02, 2021
19/30 How to Change How You Think: Cognitive Distortions Part 2: How to Process Emotions
Jun 24, 2021
18/30 Cognitive Distortions: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Techniques
Jun 18, 2021
17/30 Reframe Your Negative Thoughts: Change How You See the World: How to Process Emotions
Jun 05, 2021
16/30 Neuroplasticity: Change How You Feel by Changing How You Think: How to Process Emotions
Jun 04, 2021
15/30 How to Move Past Mental Blocks: How to Process Emotions
May 21, 2021
14/30 How to Turn off the Fight/Flight/Freeze Response: How to Process Emotions
May 13, 2021
13/30 Coping Skills for Anxiety or Depression: How to Process Emotions
May 06, 2021
12/30 How to Turn off the Fear Response: Create a Sense of Safety: How to Process Emotions
Apr 28, 2021
11/30 Calming Anxiety With Your Body’s Built-In Anti-Anxiety Response
Apr 22, 2021
10/30 How to Release Emotions Trapped in Your Body: How to Process Emotions
Apr 15, 2021
9/30 How to Recognize and Turn off the Fight/Flight/Freeze Response: How to Process Emotions
Apr 08, 2021
8/30 The Mind-Body Connection/How Emotions Get Trapped in the Body: How to Process Emotions
Apr 01, 2021
7/30 Primary Emotions vs. Secondary Emotions: How to Process Emotions
Mar 25, 2021
6/30 Willingness: How to Feel your Feelings: How to Process Emotions
Mar 18, 2021
5/30 How to Stop Struggling With Anxiety and Intense Emotions: How to Process Emotions
Mar 11, 2021
4/30 Clean vs. Dirty Pain: Are You Creating Your Own Suffering? How to Process Your Emotions
Mar 09, 2021
Happy Place Meditation- Relax and Fall Asleep Faster
Mar 05, 2021
The SIFT technique for Emotion Processing: Dr. Daniel Siegel The Whole Brain Child
Feb 27, 2021
3/30 Why Coping Skills Can Make It Worse: How to Process Your Emotions
Feb 18, 2021
2/30 A Nonjudgmental Attitude: The Lie of Positive and Negative Emotions: Process Your Emotions
Feb 11, 2021
1/30 Name It to Tame It: How to Process Emotions
Feb 04, 2021
How to Process Your Emotions- Course Introduction/30 Depression and Anxiety Skills Course
Jan 28, 2021
How to Set Better Goals With This One Shift in Thinking
Jan 26, 2021
Fight Depression And Burnout in 2 Minutes a Day - 3 Good Things Activity
Jan 21, 2021
Creating an Environment where Healing Mental Illness is Possible: A Treatment Team Approach
Jan 19, 2021
Change the World with One Skill: World Mental Health Day Find a Way #WithMe
Jan 12, 2021
How to Stop Worrying About the Future
Jan 07, 2021
Mental Filtering: Why you may only notice the Negative
Jan 05, 2021
How Loneliness Affects the Immune System
Dec 29, 2020
Anxiety, Worries and What if’s-Rewiring Anxiety through Intentional Risk Assessment- Acceptable Risk
Dec 28, 2020
How to Get Motivated and Stay Motivated
Dec 26, 2020
Quick Coping Skill for Anxiety: Locus of Control Find a Way #WithMe
Dec 22, 2020
Seasonal Affective Disorder and Winter Blues- Treatment Options-Light Therapy for SAD
Dec 21, 2020
People Pleasing-Are you a People Pleaser? And How to Stop Being a People Pleaser
Dec 17, 2020
Can You Be Successful if you Experience Mental Illness? OCD, John Green and Turtles all the Way Down
Dec 15, 2020
Anxious but you don’t know why?
Dec 08, 2020
Escaping the Anxiety/Burnout/Depression Cycle
Dec 01, 2020
The Healing Power of Gratitude to Change the Brain
Nov 26, 2020
Perception Creates Your Reality- Change How You Feel about People with this Relationship Skill
Nov 24, 2020
Coming to Peace with Uncomfortable Sensations like Anxiety, Vertigo, and Tinnitus- With Joey Remenyi
Nov 23, 2020
Neuroplasticity, Anxiety, Tinnitus and Vertigo-Extended Interview with Joey Remenyi
Nov 23, 2020
Turn off Anxiety in your Nervous System: Four Ways to Turn on the Parasympathetic Response
Nov 19, 2020
Overcoming Negative Self Talk-How You Think Changes How You Feel - With Nick Wignall
Nov 11, 2020
How to Be Assertive
Nov 11, 2020
Natural Treatment for Depression- Light Therapy for Depression and Seasonal Affective Disorder
Nov 06, 2020
3 Minute Stress Management
Oct 24, 2020
Facing Fear of Death- 4 Skills for Anxiety and Fear of Death and Dying
Sep 11, 2020
All-or-Nothing Thinking: A Cognitive Distortion That Leads to Depression
Sep 11, 2020
Sensory Coping Skills- Using your Body to Cope with and Calm Big Emotions
Aug 04, 2020
Why Self-Esteem Backfires
Jul 27, 2020
Coronavirus Anxiety and Your Ancient Brain
Jul 21, 2020
Sleep Hygiene: Train your Brain to Fall Asleep and Sleep Better
Jul 14, 2020
Daily Habits to Prevent Depression During Stressful Times
Jul 07, 2020
Catastrophizing-How to Stop Making Yourself Depressed and Anxious (Thinking Error) Skill #6
Jun 30, 2020
Prevent Teen Suicide: How to Talk With Your Teen After a Peer’s Suicide or Death at Their School
Jun 23, 2020
4 Habits of Joy-Filled Marriage Book Review: How to Improve Your Marriage in 15 Minutes a Day
Jun 17, 2020
Healing the Nervous System from Trauma- Somatic Experiencing
Jun 09, 2020
COVID-19 Therapy Session Managing Fear and Anxiety: A Therapist’s Advice With Monica Blume
Jun 02, 2020
What is Mental Health? with Melissa Barry from ConsciousMatters
May 26, 2020