Lara Honos-Webb

name Lara Honos-Webb, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist. She is author of The Gift of ADHD: How to Transform Your Child's Problems into Strengths, the forthcoming Gift of Depression: How Listening to Your Pain Can Heal Your Life and more than twenty-five scholarly articles. Her work has been featured in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Publisher's Weekly as well as newspapers across the country and local and national radio and television. She specializes in the treatment of ADHD and depression and the psychology of pregnancy and motherhood

Health-and-Fitness

Depression Treatment: Metaphors for Seeing Depression as a Gift

20th January 2007
It may seem Pollyannaish to view depression as a gift. The gift of depression is its ability to wake you up and make you do something different and change your life. Fly Metaphor One time I saw a fly inside a car banging its head over and over agai... Read >
Health-and-Fitness

The Gift of Depression: Getting Your Life Back on Track

20th January 2007
Depression is a signal that one has gotten off track - that your life is not in alignment with your deepest needs, values, interests and gifts. What does that mean ? What track have you gotten off of? One way to think of it is to think of people you know ... Read >
Health & Healthcare

Depression Treatment: How to Heal Your Life

18th September 2006
Depression can be seen as a wake up call to get you to heal your life. The symptoms can be seen as stages that guide you toward a personal transformation. In the first stage, the withdrawal that characterizes depression is reframed as necessary to eff... Read >