Ilyse Dimarco

In the past several years, I’ve become a big proponent of watching TV—without a phone nearby—as a strategy for coping with stress. You may be rolling your eyes as you’re…

Recently, a patient explained that her parents were coming to town and had volunteered to babysit so that she and her husband could have a night out in the city.…

“What if this pain in my arm means that I have a serious illness?” “What if I fail at my new job?” “What if I said too much at the…

I was first exposed to mindfulness as a graduate student. On the recommendation of innovators like Marsha Linehan, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and others, mindfulness was increasingly being incorporated into cognitive-behavioral therapy…

As a clinical psychologist who treats many stressed and anxious moms, I’ve often heard about the Housewives, those staples of Bravo TV that fight and booze and scheme their way…

Welcome to my blog! I hope to use this space to share my thoughts on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), anxiety, women’s health…and the overlap between all three. As an undergraduate at Yale…