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Ilyana Romanovsky M.A. MFT., is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT 80096), specializing in treatment of adults, adolescents and children with mood and anxiety disorders. She received a BA from University of Chicago in biology, with special concentration in neuroscience and an MA in clinical psychology from Saint Mary’s College of California. She was named as the Beck Institute Cognitive Behavior Therapy Scholarship winner and before opening her private practice, worked in several clinical positions affiliated with local outpatient clinics and hospitals. She has been a contributing writer at Psychology Today and Huffington Post as well as a columnist for Creativity Post and Psyched in San Francisco. Her research has also been published by Springer, co-authoring a chapter in a textbook as well as authoring a book on how to get the most out of psychotherapy – Choosing Therapy: A Guide To Getting What You Need. She remains active in her research interests, along with writing, teaching and consulting work.

From the Journal

Influence Of Culture On Brain-Based Conditions

If we didn’t have culture, we would be either dead or very seriously socially free. Humans are designed to live as cultural animals. Our brains are adapted to learning: whether it involves reacting to stimuli, evaluating options or paving the way to new ones. Our minds are formed by the ...

Cold Hearts Or Broken Brains?

In one scene played by Sigourney Weaver in the horror classic Aliens, director James Cameron sets up a dialogue between the heroine and a little girl discussing monsters. The little girl states that her mother had told her long ago that there were no such things as monsters. “But there ...

From Caution To Creation

Yale University’s mission statement begins this way: “Yale aims to carry out each part of its mission at the highest level of excellence, on par with the best institutions in the world.” Mission statements of other universities reflect the same level of commitment to truth, discovery, and possibility. Whatever the ...

Gene Control

In the January 2, 2017 issue of the New Yorker, Michael Specter authored a piece on the genetic editing project spearheaded by Kevin Esvelt, assistant professor of biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Esvelt, a young scientist, has invented a technology that would enable a degree of gene ...

Living With Your Adhd Partner

Post by Anne Farmer – a mother and writer, who has worked in business management and healthcare industries after studying literature. She indulges her love of writing through various freelance work. Anne has written on a wide variety of subjects and is a contributing writer to this site. Around eight ...

School Violence

“One child at a time” is the scope for today’s problem of school violence. It is unacceptable, frightening, costly and misunderstood, yet it does happen. It has evolved to be part of our culture. Students are caught brining weapons into schools, bullying one another, and using violence to resolve frustration ...

Worried About Your Health A Lot? Treating Hypochondriasis

It may resemble a series of medical complaints and check-ups. After all, you are persistent and want the best for your health. When a thorough physical exam does not show anything, maybe you opt for some comprehensive lab tests. You remember walking home each time from the doctor’s office with ...

Are You Anxious Or Stressed?

If you are like most people, then you probably use the words interchangeably and think that they are the same thing. They are actually different and are treated differently. The difference is critical in that the way you would treat anxiety is the opposite of how you would treat stress. ...

Empathy In Clinical Health Care

A forty-five-year-old Hispanic gentleman became well known to the health system after presenting frequently with shortness of breath and abdominal pain. His primary care physician ordered multiple laboratory tests and radiologic scans which were unrevealing, and he was seen as both a gastroenterologist and a cardiologist who found no organic ...

What To Do When You Are Depressed

Depression is a selfish beast. Instead of having you focus externally on your family, friends, job, pets, interests, plans and dreams — it forces the focus within. You isolate, shut out the world and focus on you. This is especially true in the mornings when it is hard to get out ...