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Insight Into Action Therapy is an outpatient practice providing Mental Health, Addictive Behaviors Therapy, Couples, Play Therapy including Psychological Evaluations and Medication Monitoring for individuals, couples and families. We strive to offer informative and encouraging content related to mental health, relationships and addictions recovery. Please check out our website www.insightactiontherapy.com
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07/31/2025

Clear the path for the child or prepare the child for the path? What can butterflies show us about what kids need?

Insight's Johnny Pierce, Psy.D. Matt Christian, LCSW, LSATP and Craig James, LCSW, LSATP, MAC discuss takeaways from the great book The Coddling of the American Mind.

Insight Into Action Therapy is relaunching it's flagship Adolescent Dual Diagnosis Recovery Program©! Contact to sign up or refer a teen.
https://www.insightactiontherapy.com/contact-insight-into-action-therapy

As we celebrate ten years of Insight, we are excited to announce our new Executive Directors for our sister companies: M...
07/16/2025

As we celebrate ten years of Insight, we are excited to announce our new Executive Directors for our sister companies: Matt Christian and Chrissy Chow.

Matt will lead Insight Into Action Therapy (IIAT), bringing his clinical expertise and leadership to our outpatient behavioral health services. Chrissy will serve as Executive Director of Insight Recovery Centers (IRC), where she will continue to advocate for innovation in harm reduction and recovery support.

Both bring years of dedication, passion, and vision to their roles, and we’re excited to continue to grow and have them lead us to the next phase. Here's to the next 10 years of Insight!

Please join us in congratulating Matt and Chrissy as they step into these new leadership positions!

Insight Into Action Therapy and Insight Recovery Centers is pleased to announce that our co-founder Cyndi Turner is now ...
07/08/2025

Insight Into Action Therapy and Insight Recovery Centers is pleased to announce that our co-founder Cyndi Turner is now licensed to provide psychotherapy in Maryland, D.C., West Virginia, and Virginia. This broadens her ability to provide alcohol moderation, harm reduction psychotherapy (HRP), and expert witness testimony in the surrounding states.

If you, someone you love, or one of your clients is struggling with their substance use and traditional treatment hasn't worked, contact Insight:

www.insightactiontherapy.com/contact-insight-into-action-therapy

www.insightrecoverycenters.com/contact-insight-recovery-centers

07/02/2025

Therapists React: Good Will Hunting - "It's not your fault"

Attachment, trauma, and taking chances. Reaction to the iconic therapy scene from Goodwill Hunting - "It's not your fault".

Therapists Craig James, Johnny Pierce, and Matt Christian react to this powerful scene as part of the Insights & Actions Podcast.

The Insights & Actions podcast takes you behind the scenes with practicing therapists to hear what they're talking about when out of session.

Insights & Actions is for educational and entertainment purposes and is not a substitute for working directly with a mental health or medical professional.

Insight Into Action Therapy is an award winning mental health and substance use disorder outpatient treatment practice in Loudoun County, Virginia offering mental health therapy for children, adolescents, adults, and couples, addiction treatment, psychological testing, and medication management. insightactiontherapy.com

The link between cannabis use in adolescence and psychosis is something we're seeing in our offices more and more. A new...
06/02/2025

The link between cannabis use in adolescence and psychosis is something we're seeing in our offices more and more.

A new systematic review published in Biomolecules adds to the growing body of research connecting ma*****na use with serious mental health consequences. One of the most striking findings? Adolescents who use ma*****na are at double the risk of developing psychosis or schizophrenia.

The review analyzed 10 studies—9 found statistically significant links between ma*****na and psychosis.
- The odds ratio for developing schizophrenia or psychotic events: 2.88.
- Researchers highlighted “altered synaptic plasticity during adolescence” as a key mechanism.

This review also challenges the long-held “self-medication” myth. As Alison Knopf notes, “the evidence indicates that it is the cannabis which came first in these cases.”

05/27/2025

Surprising science of creatine for depression and cognitive performance (1-minute overview & studies below 👇 )

Dosage: 2 studies mentioned in this video used 5 grams/day. Most research falls in the 3–10 gram range; some studies explore even higher doses. Always talk to a healthcare professional before starting a supplement.

Sherpa et al. (2025): Adjunctive creatine + CBT significantly reduced depression vs. CBT alone

Lyoo et al. (2012): Adjunctive creatine + SSRIs showed faster/greater depression improvement in women vs. SSRI alone.

Kondo et al. (2011): Adjunctive creatine improved depression in SSRI-resistant adolescents, increased brain phosphocreatine

Roitman et al. (2007): Preliminary findings suggested rapid antidepressant potential.... Risk of manic switch in bipolar patients noted

Faulkner et al. (2021): Lower prefrontal creatine correlated with higher depression scores

Hellem et al. (2015): Creatine reduced depression in women with depression/meth use; increased brain phosphocreatine. Use did not worsen

Kondo et al. (2016): Higher doses (10g/day) increased brain phosphocreatine, correlated with greater symptom reduction

Toniolo et al. (2018): Adjunctive creatine for bipolar depression showed significant remission rates, Risk of manic switch noted

McMorris et al. (2006, 2007): Creatine improved executive function under sleep deprivation

Turner et al. (2015): Creatine preserved complex attention during oxygen deprivation

Gordji-Nejad et al. (2024): Single high dose improved cognition/reduced fatigue during sleep deprivation

Kaptsan et al. (2007): In schizophrenia - no significant symptom improvement

Amital et al. (2006a): Reported significant reduction in PTSD/depressive symptoms

Nemets & Levine (2013): Small trial found no significant benefit for SSRI-resistant MDD augmentation

Kious et al. (2017): (Creatine + 5-HTP) found significant depression improvement in women with resistant MDD

Yoon et al. (2016): Neuroimaging showed creatine improved brain metabolism/connectivity, correlated with depression reduction.

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05/16/2025

Alcoholics Anonymous & Psychology - Enlightened selfishness?

What is enlightened selfishness? Do Alcoholics Anonymous and psychology overlap to give insight into a path to happiness, recovery, and peace? How to be happy. The big book of alcoholics anonymous and the DSM.

Insight Into Action Therapy is an award winning mental health and substance use disorder outpatient treatment practice in Loudoun County, Virginia offering mental health therapy for children, adolescents, adults, and couples, addiction treatment, psychological testing, and medication management.

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A mental health or substance use diagnosis is a tool for understanding, not a prognosis. When it's helpful for your reco...
05/05/2025

A mental health or substance use diagnosis is a tool for understanding, not a prognosis. When it's helpful for your recovery, pick it up and use it, when it's not, put it down. Recovery is possible. Change is possible. Let's be well!

04/25/2025

Alcohol Moderation: More than medical, more than morals


From a moral issue to a brain disorder - what's next? The role of alcohol moderation, harm reduction, and a spectrum of use. Viewing people as individuals.

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Want a free consultation? We'd love to talk! 👉 insightactiontherapy.com/contact-insight-into-action-therapy

The Insights & Actions podcast takes you behind the scenes with practicing therapists to hear what they're talking about when out of session.
Insights & Actions is for educational and entertainment purposes and is not a substitute for working directly with a mental health or medical professional.

Insight Into Action Therapy is an award winning mental health and substance use disorder outpatient treatment practice in Loudoun County, Virginia offering mental health therapy for children, adolescents, adults, and couples, addiction treatment, psychological testing, and medication management.

🔗 insightactiontherapy.com

04/23/2025

If you get help there’s something wrong with you? Duh…

Therapists talk silly ideas about stigma. Why are we playing games with words? So...getting help when there's an issue to address is bad?

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Want a free consultation? We'd love to talk! 👉 insightactiontherapy.com/contact-insight-into-action-therapy

The Insights & Actions podcast takes you behind the scenes with practicing therapists to hear what they're talking about when out of session.
Insights & Actions is for educational and entertainment purposes and is not a substitute for working directly with a mental health or medical professional.

Insight Into Action Therapy is an award winning mental health and substance use disorder outpatient treatment practice in Loudoun County, Virginia offering mental health therapy for children, adolescents, adults, and couples, addiction treatment, psychological testing, and medication management.

🔗 insightactiontherapy.com

04/21/2025

Can I Keep Drinking? Free alcohol moderation assessment

How do I know if I can keep drinking? After years of experience and research Cyndi Turner, LCSW, LSATP, MAC created the Alcohol Moderation Assessment. Take it online for free.

Take the assessment 👉 insightactiontherapy.com/virginia-addiction-treatment-center-programs/alcohol-moderation

Please like, comment, and follow - it would mean a lot to us!

Want a free consultation? We'd love to talk! 👉 insightactiontherapy.com/contact-insight-into-action-therapy

The Insights & Actions podcast takes you behind the scenes with practicing therapists to hear what they're talking about when out of session.
Insights & Actions is for educational and entertainment purposes and is not a substitute for working directly with a mental health or medical professional.

Insight Into Action Therapy is an award winning mental health and substance use disorder outpatient treatment practice in Loudoun County, Virginia offering mental health therapy for children, adolescents, adults, and couples, addiction treatment, psychological testing, and medication management.

🔗 insightactiontherapy.com

04/18/2025

Alcohol is like donuts??

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Want a free consultation? We'd love to talk! 👉 insightactiontherapy.com/contact-insight-into-action-therapy

The Insights & Actions podcast takes you behind the scenes with practicing therapists to hear what they're talking about when out of session.
Insights & Actions is for educational and entertainment purposes and is not a substitute for working directly with a mental health or medical professional.

Insight Into Action Therapy is an award winning mental health and substance use disorder outpatient treatment practice in Loudoun County, Virginia offering mental health therapy for children, adolescents, adults, and couples, addiction treatment, psychological testing, and medication management.

🔗 insightactiontherapy.com

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44340 Premier Plz, Ste 230
Ashburn, VA
20147

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Monday 7am - 9pm
Tuesday 7am - 9pm
Wednesday 7am - 9pm
Thursday 7am - 9pm
Friday 7am - 9pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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