Sunday, June 22, 2025

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Susan Winston

Susan Winston is a television producer turned psychotherapist who, tiring of driving those annoying Los Angeles freeways, has moved to the Berkshires full-time and opened her private practice in Great Barrington. She specializes in work with those facing high stress, anxiety, depression, emotional reactivity, bipolar diagnosis, continued addiction recovery and more. Her motto is SHIFT HAPPENS. (Yes, sometimes she drops the ‘F”). She joins her clients in riding the tidal wave of change through heart and humor.

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National Mental Health Awareness Month

Great Barrington psychotherapist suggests this might be the time to take stock of how you're doing.

Holiday season

Holidays can be sweet and tender, but they can also be bitter and tough. Keep your eyes open and see where you can be of help.

Love in the time of politics

A Great Barrington psychotherapist finds a new issue affecting relationships lately—politics.

VIEWPOINTS: Admiring President Biden

I met President Biden on a television show, one of the first I worked on, immediately after he became the senator from Delaware. He was a young man, full of energy and so kind to this 21-year-old news neophyte producing the program.

SHRINK RAP: Ice is nice

I’m a lot older, but apparently not wiser. I need to keep testing myself by doing things most people would think insane – or at least not terribly smart.

Shaking off the seasonal blues

Information about Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) from local psychotherapist Susan Winston: Take SAD seriously, and please get the help you need.

VIEWPOINTS: I am not the deer hunter, but…

Sorry, Bambi, but if it’s you versus me, I plan to win. You have made driving in The Berkshires a serious hazard.

Love is in the air, or in the app

Meeting that special someone is no longer an organic process ... You pre-process through an app,

City Slicker to Country Girl

A transplant from Los Angeles deals with zoological adventures now that she lives in the Berkshires.

SHRINK RAP: Kale nation

Writer and psychologist Susan Winston, no fan of kale, wonders where it came from and how it has managed to have taken control over our culinary adventures.

SHRINK RAP: Why buying a bed bugs you

A local psychotherapist walks you through the underside of dealing with insomnia.
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