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Dr. Shemena Johnson, PsyD, LMFT, is a Los Angeles–based Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist whose work is rooted in attachment theory and relational attunement. With a doctorate focused on race-based traumatic stress among African Americans, she brings deep understanding to her clinical work. Learn More
Different Types of Depression
Depression can also be used to refer to clinical depression, a diagnosable depression that one can’t pull themselves out of and it causes their quality of life to decline. There are other forms of depression that are non-diagnosable. From my experience, the roots lie in a few areas — failure, anger, and grief.
Imposter Syndrome and How to Overcome It
You may look at the successful people in your life and think that their confidence is the last thing that they have to worry about. The truth is that many people that have achieved notable accomplishments suffer from a common phenomenon called imposter syndrome.