Tom Cloyd – Psychotherapist

Services devoted to achieving mental health, psychological healing, and healthy relationships

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An historical note: About the EMDRPortal and BestMindHealth websites

From time to time, people come to this website searching for material from websites I have managed in the past. I think it would be beneficial to have here a note about what happened to those websites, and about where some of the content from them may now be found.

The EMDRPortal website

I’ve been starting and managing mental health websites for a number of years. I think my first was launched around 1997 – “Rural Mental Health Professionals”. After my training in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), I became familiar with the website supporting the EMDR Institute, and wasn’t happy with it. So, I started my own – the EMDRPortal.

This website was online for a number of years, became rather well-known in the EMDR community, and garnered meaningful contributions – articles, reviews, etc. – from a number of respected psychotherapists. After several years, I became less interested in maintaining the EMDRPortal as a single-focus website, as I learned more about ego-state psychotherapy in general and some specific developing new therapy models which seemed promising.

...continue reading (Weblog entry for 2008.06.04)

NEW! – “Brain Health” section

Good mental health is much assisted by good brain health. Recent developments in our understanding of neurophysiology, medicine, and other related fields, now allow us deliberately to take action to create a healthy brain for ourselves.

This new section of the website will focus on what we know, and on what seems likely to be true, about good brain health. When possible, it will focus particularly on what steps we can take to improve our brain health. The goal will be to help us all take charge of this very important part of our health.

It will take some time to develop a reasonably complete presentation of the subject, in this website section. But, what will appear first will include some immediately useful findings and some practical recommendations for you to consider.

So…check out the first offerings in this new brain health section. I hope you enjoy this new material, and find it useful.

Got a problem?

“All of us sometimes get into trouble with the decisions we make. Usually, the consequences of this are bearable, but sometimes our mistakes are truly costly. For those times when making a good decision is genuinely important we need a way be reasonably assured that we’re thinking correctly. Such a way exists…” (from Problem solving: How to make better decisions)

When it’s time to return to solid ground…

“Everyone has experienced disturbing periods in their life. We get hurt, or scared, or experience serious losses. The feelings these events produce in us are perfectly natural, but if the levels of feeling are too high, or go on too long, we can become incapacitated – dysfunctional. What can we do then – to return to a mental state simply feels better? We quite naturally want to solve this problem, to live successfully, comfortably, happily.” (from Re-grounding procedure)

About this website – resources you will find here

The principal purpose of this site is to provide resources supporting my professional activities in Counseling & Psychotherapy. It is designed for use by my clients (present, past, and future), the general interested public, and my peers in professional applied psychology.

The principal sections of the website are these:

• Services – Details about the range of services I offer, my professional background and experience, and how I conduct my practice.
• Newsletter – My professional practice newsletter, devoted to useful and interesting mental health topics.
• Weblog – My ongoing commentary about a range of topics related (usually) to mental health concerns.
• Library – A variety of documents, articles, handouts, forms, etc., on mental health topics. A detailed listing will be found on the section’s front page.
• Brain health – Information and ideas about good brain health.
• Help – A diverse group of pages containing information about use and production of the web site.