Dr. Laura Alicia Gonzalez PSY.D.

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• New Research Shows Many Adults with Autism Are Unemployed

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• Symptoms of Atypical Depression

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• What Is Sexting?

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• What Causes Separation Anxiety?

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• What Is Emotional Eating?

  There may be times that an individual will turn to junk food to deal with emotional stress. This habit of eating comfort foods to satisfy a feeling or an emotion is referred to as emotional eating. When an individual turns to emotional eating, he or she may over eat to try to combat strained...