Michael S. Logan, MS

Improve Listening Skills

Improve listening skills is an extraordinary skill to develop, which pays great dividends in personal relationships. The one downside that I have discovered is that if folks get a sense that I can do this, and because so few of us do it well, I am inv... Read >

Bereavement Counseling

In my counseling practice, with my domestic violence and anger management folks, I teach a model of grieving every anger management workshop, and way too frequently in my domestic violence classes. Our culture no longer handles grief the way it use... Read >

Seniors Exercise-Aging Gracefully

Aging Gracefully - With Seniors Exercise There are many reasons that senior citizens should exercise on a regular basis, but the main one is that it helps to increase your overall health and ward off life-threatening diseases - especially those ass... Read >

What is Your Level of Cognitive Reserve?

Not sure about you, but this 62 year old brain needs all the cognitive reserve it can get. So perhaps you are wondering what cognitive reserve is before you order some for yourself? "In 1988 a study published in Annals of Neurology reporting finding... Read >

What are Panic Attacks?

If you've been suffering from extreme anxiety that comes on suddenly and doesn't cause any real physical effects afterwards, then you'll want to be asking, "What are panic attacks and is this what I have, too?" A panic attack (also known as an anxiety ... Read >

Therapy for Grief

The best therapy for grief is time and community. We humans have been dealing with death since we began, and every culture, every clan, every family, has created some kind of ritual. For example some cultures still throw spears over the body to ward of... Read >

Is Stress Reduction Meditation Even Possible?

Is it even possible to do stress reduction meditation in a fast paced society where taking two twenty minute breaks to sit quietly and chant a mantra could cost you your job? While it may not be possible to do Transcendental Meditation as described abo... Read >

Help for Your Panic Attack

If you're suffering from extreme anxiety, you'll want to know what sort of help for panic attacks is available so that you can choose the option that works best for you. Some people wait until the situation is dire to seek help. At first, panic attacks... Read >

Stress Counseling

Stress counseling is a significant part of my practice, and you may ask what stress counseling means. Stress is the internal physiological response we have subsequent to a thought about any event in the external world, and stress counseling would be th... Read >

Alleviating Anxiety

Alleviating anxiety is something we all need to learn how to do. Anxiety shows up in many different physical ways. You might not even know that's what's going on within your body. Anxiety can cause your heart rate to beat faster than it normally would for... Read >

Biofeedback Relaxation

I have used a number of biofeedback relaxation techniques in my counseling practice including handwarming, EEG biofeedback, and heart rate variability biofeedback, which is the tool I have used since becoming a licensed one on one provider in 2000. I ... Read >

Herbal Remedies for Anxiety

Taking medication isn't for everyone and if you're the type of person who doesn't like to take medication, you should be aware that there are herbal remedies for anxiety. No one is immune to the mental and physical trouble that anxiety can bring on but no... Read >

Positive Cognitive Aging

Cognitive aging at the age of 62 can result in some scary feelings, a little worry, a little fear, because these days my vision or my memory is not quite what it was, and so on. If you are my age, 62, then I am sure you and Bill Clinton feel my pain. ... Read >

Anxiety Attacks in Children

Anxiety attacks in children happen more often than you might think. Unlike adults, who can articulate what they're feeling and know to seek assistance in order to deal with it, children don't. So often, their anxiety is left untreated and they try to cope... Read >

Grief Counselor

I am not a grief counselor by education, however, my clients, no matter what the presenting issue, have at some point demonstrated grief, sadness, even intense crying, about a loss which has impacted their lives, so I made it a point to learn something ab... Read >