Dr. Robin L. Kay
(310) 474-3020
This website is designed for all of the men and women who find themselves unable to reach their potential for success and satisfaction in one or many areas of life (love, career, self-care) and/or who find themselves unable to get beyond debilitating psychological states including chronic anxiety, depression, and mood regulation problems.
I hope you will gain a greater understanding of yourself and renewed hope after reading the information that's presented on the next several pages and by making use of some of the resources I suggest.
If you or someone you care about suffers from any one of the following, keep reading:
Mood, emotion, or cognitive difficulties:
Anxiety: chronic or intermittent, but either way it's a source of distress
Panic symptoms
Depression or low mood
Low self esteem
Body image distortion: perceiving yourself as not being thin or attractive enough
Perfectionistic standards: expecting yourself and/or others to be "perfect"
Judgmental behavior & fault finding: constantly finding fault in yourself and/or in others
Obsessive thoughts and/or compulsive behaviors
Self defeating patterns:
Treating others better than you treat yourself
Taking care of your appearance but ignoring your important feelings
Not expressing yourself as fully or in the exact way you want to
Unresolved or incomplete processing of grief
Problematic/ineffectual/harmful coping strategies:
Excessive drinking
Drug addiction: prescription or recreational drugs
Compulsive overeating
Compulsive spending
Compulsive gambling
Poor coping skills
Avoiding feelings altogther
Psychosomatic conditions (e.g., irritable bowel, chronic fatigue)
Wealth flaunting or other forms of exhibitionism
Impulse control problems (e.g., angry outbursts)
Relationship difficulties:
Intimacy avoidance: rejecting partners who really ARE good enough
Commitment difficulties
Infidelity/cheating in relationships
Sexual difficulties and/or sexaholism or sexual avoidance
Conflict avoidance: not saying what you really think or feel
Passivity in relationships
A pattern of defeating relationships or an inability to maintain, enjoy, or succeed in them
Choosing partners who use, abuse, neglect, mistreat, or refuse to commit to you
Attraction to "bad boys" or "bad girls" or taking pride in being a "bad boy" or a "butterfly"
Parenting and partnering difficulties:
Are you--or do you fear--providing your children or loved ones with the same unhealthy parenting that you received?
Are you--or do you fear--repeating the same unhealthy relationship patterns that you witnessed your parents engaging in?
Without knowing it, we do to ourselves, our children, and our loved ones some version of what was done to us (by our parents or our early caregivers).
· we dismiss, ignore, neglect or minimize feelings or distress
· we fail to develop our own solid and secure identities and/or to let
others be or become their own persons
· we devalue ourselves or others or imagine we are being rejected or
devalued
· we cannot wholeheartedly feel love for ourselves
· we cannot wholeheartedly feel or express love to those we do love or
to those we want to love
The content on this site does not constitute medical advice, medical treatment or a patient-doctor (fiduciary) relationship.