Audrey O’Neal
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Audrey O'Neal holds an MS in Mental Health Counseling from Walden University and is in the process of completing a doctorate (PsyD) in Clinical Psychology at California Southern University. Audrey O'Neal places emphasis on a holistic approach to mental and emotional wellness and believes that attachment and trauma informed care are essential elements of treatment.
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Ray (2018) noted that there has been an emphasis on discovering and using more “objective markers” (p. 54) in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Using neuroscience research has ..read more
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Ray (2018) noted that twin studies provide the opportunity to observe an event in nature that helps facilitate the understanding of important factors associated with genetic influences. The researcher explained ..read more
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Ray (2018) noted that in the 1970’s, Jane Murphey of Harvard University studied the Eskimos of northwest Alaska and the Yoruba of rural Nigeria. This study was undertaken at a ..read more
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1y ago
McEwen (2017) explained that mindfulness-based stress reduction practice demonstrated an increase in brain gray matter. The increase in brain gray matter density was noticed in the hippocampus, cerebellum, and prefrontal ..read more
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It's important to see the world and navigate the world through a lens of progressiveness and to act accordingly. If a person's perspective is negative, then it will affect all ..read more
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The insight that I can draw from managing stress leads me to think that anxiety can also be helpful because it does spur a person into action and is motivating ..read more
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It's interesting that you point out that happiness can be changeable and that well-being appears to be more stable in a person's life. I think it's true that people experience ..read more
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Since I am independent and run my own practice, I can keep my occupational stress level low. However, Greenberg (2021) contended that low occupational stress can be equally as unhealthy ..read more
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It's interesting as Greenberg (2021) explained that autogenic training when it was being developed, also used hypnosis. Greenberg (2021) noted psychiatrist Johannes Schultz discovered that the patients that he had ..read more
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For one of my doctoral courses in clinical psychology, I participated in an experiential lab activity in which I needed to explore a time when I acted in a prejudicial ..read more