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Andrea Umbach, Psy.D.

Dr. Andrea Umbach enjoys working with adults, teens, and children. Her areas of interest include anxiety issues (obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic, social anxiety, specific phobias, worry, and generalized anxiety), hoarding, organizing, trichotillomania, sleep, and psychoeducational assessments.

Dr. Umbach practices from a cognitive-behavioral perspective focused on increasing flexibility in thinking and making adaptive behavior changes. She is the author of Conquer Your Fears and Phobias for Teens.

ARTICLES BY ANDREA UMBACH

How Much Privacy Should a Child Have?

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How Much Privacy Should a Child Have?Should I check my son’s Facebook?  Should I read my daughter’s journal? What’s my child doing on their phone? Should kids have privacy...
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Your Millennial Doesn’t Want Your Stuff: Why Millennials Are Trending Toward Minimalism

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Where Did All the Stuff Come From?Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964) are the post-WWII generation. After the Great Depression and World War II, Americans married, moved to the suburbs, and...
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5 Ways to Challenge Anxious Thoughts

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Challenging Anxious ThoughtsSince our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are all connected, one way to reduce anxiety symptoms is to work on challenging anxious thoughts. Challenging means to slowly...
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How to Go with the Flow: 5 Tips to Flexible Thinking

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Although structure, organization, and consistency are highly encouraged, there can come a point where we go a little overboard and become rigid and inflexible. You may have heard the words “control freak”...
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How to Get Over Jet Lag: 9 Tips for Long Flights

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How to Get Over Jet Lag: 9 Tips for Long Fights Flying across time zones puts our internal circadian rhythm, or sleep/wake cycle, out of sync with our external environment. Eventually, our natural cycles will...
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