Lynn Somerstein,PhD, NCPsyA, C-IAYT

My Approach to Helping

More Info About My Practice

If you've ever been curious about some of the things therapists experience doing treatment and how they got to be therapists in the first place, here's your chance to find out- read my book, "Defining Moments for Therapists."
This book is written for people in therapy, therapists, and therapists in training.

Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With

I am especially interested in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with people experiencing issues of attachment, depression and anxiety.

My Blog Posts

• Help! I Have No One to Talk To
• Help! I’m Catfishing Someone and I Don’t Know How to Stop
• Help! My Partner Is a Terrible Kisser
• It Needs to Happen, but the Idea of Creating a Will Makes Me Anxious
• Look to the Future: How Attachment Affects Our Ability to Plan Ahead
• When Your Dream Marriage Is Interrupted by a Sleep Disorder
• How Do I Get My Family to Stop Pressuring Me to Get Married?
• Should I Try to Find My Biological Parents?
• Suicide and Saying Goodbye: Leaving Survivors with Love
• Help! I'm Afraid of Everything!
• What It Feels Like to Be Stalked (Let Alone Three Times)
• Help! I'm a Natural Flirt, but It's Hurting My Partner
• How Do I Overcome the Shame of Sex?
• Am I Crazy for Talking to Myself All the Time?
• Pathological Lying: The Too-Good-to-Be-True Fairy Tale
• Am I Horrible for Not Crying at My Father's Funeral?
• How Am I Supposed to Stop Being Crazy?
• Help! My Husband Wants to Go Back to School, Not Work
• Why Am I So Paranoid and Skeptical About Everything?
• Is It Normal to Have Intrusive, Disturbing Thoughts?
• When Is It OK to End a One-Sided Friendship?
• Help! I Can't Seem to Forgive Myself for How I Treated My Ex
• Bah Humbug! Am I a Bad Person for Hating the Holidays?
• Help! My Girlfriend Keeps Making Her Pets My Problem
• Help! My Only Friends Are Homophobic and Don't Know I'm Gay
• How Do I Deal with Younger, Competitive People at Work?
• How Can I Stay Strong Knowing My Wife Has Terminal Cancer?
• Help! I'm Lost in My Mind, with No Sense of Life Purpose
• Help! If I Have an Abortion, Do I Have to Tell My Boyfriend?
• I've Stolen, I've Lied, and I Want My Wife Back. Help!
• Help! I'm Afraid to Talk to My Therapist about Self-Injury
• Another Abandonment? My Therapist Won't See Me Anymore!
• Help! I Can't Stop Thinking about My Therapist
• 5 Facts about Stress (and 17 Ways to Deal with It)
• How Serious Is Paranoia? Am I Crazy? Do I Need Meds?
• 18 Qualities of a Marriage Built to Last
• 40 Years after Our Fling, Why Can't I Forget about Her?
• Am I Having a Midlife Crisis? Or Is It Something Else?
• Eye for an Eye, Tooth for a Tooth: Who Deserves Revenge?
• Is It Normal for Group Therapy to Mix Teens with Adults?
• Zen and the Art of Stress Relief
• Remembering Martin S. Bergmann: Psychoanalyst, Actor, Friend
• My Friend Is Ruining Her Life, but She Won't Listen to Me
• Caught in a Whirlpool: The Role You Play in Your Own Rescue
• Help! I'm a 23-Year-Old Camp Counselor with a 14-Year-Old Problem
• Why Do I Always Seem to Assume the Worst?
• When Walking Away Is Standing Your Ground
• My Insecure Girlfriend Is Possessive and Controlling. Should I Leave?
• When Is It OK for Therapists to Encourage Kids to Keep Secrets from Parents?
• I'm Impatient and Easily Irritated. Am I Depressed?
• After 18 Years Together, My Husband Wants Nothing to Do with Me
• Narcissism: Inside the Lonely, Envious World of the 'Perfect Ones'
• Everything Seemed Great ... Until My Husband Blindsided Me by Text
• My Partner Was Abused and Now Has Boundary Issues. What Do I Do?
• How Do I Get Over the Pain Caused in School?
• I Can't Get Over My Husband's Affairs
• Should You Attend a Friend's Wedding Even If Your Heart Says "No"?
• Why See a Therapist When You Can Just Talk to Your Friends?