He was an advocate for 'Angel on a Leash' and the 'Delta Society' groups - which help therapy dogs bring joy to children and adults in health care facilities.
Clearly, I needed help (therapy), so I asked my former boss at the discount brokerage firm if he knew of any angel investors.
This is a critical distinction if biomarkers are to be used to help therapy selection for patients and to guide future studies.
Cesar talked about how a string of bad luck had led him to self-help, therapy, and prayer.
Most will boast an "Angels" shelf overflowing with self-help therapy books.
A British research group showed that AT is a "powerful self-help therapy" when used by cancer patients to reduce stress.
Mr. Leeds, 58, who is from Flushing, Queens, and Dr. Hott, 53, from Great Neck, N.Y., met while studying neuro-linguistic programming, or NLP, a kind of self-help therapy designed to promote positive life changes.
She can pinpoint the moment when it happened: in September 2009 she had just done an eight-day residential self-help therapy course intended, she says, to "deal with your demons", involving early starts, late nights and a giving-birth-to-yourself process.
The pictures are soap operas of the sort of women who watch soap operas; they're glossy comic melodramas of consumer overload and self-help therapy played by lonely hearts, compulsive housewives, mall shoppers and psychiatric patients, often with a paranoid political twist.
L. Ron Hubbard created a self-help therapy known as Dianetics, which he promoted as a scientific, not religious, teaching.
From self-help, therapy and pills to websites, apps and outreach, the trappings of modern-day mental health treatment are modelled on empathy and agency.
