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Stay Together for the Kids? When Divorce Might Benefit Everyone
As parents and/or as mental health professionals, we might assume divorce always has a negative emotional impact on children. When children are exposed to chronic conflict between their ... Read More
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Dissociative Identity: Understanding the Reality Behind the Myths
Hollywood often does a disservice to people with mental health conditions. Consider the number of feature films and television shows depicting people experiencing mental health issues as ... Read More
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Love and Connection: How Trauma Can Bring Us Closer Together
“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring ... Read More
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‘How Are You Feeling?’: Chronic Illness and Coping with Questions
It is a simple question, but one that can cause more inner turmoil than most of us realize. “How are you feeling?” For countless people living with a longer-term or chronic illness, ... Read More
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Self-Differentiation and Why It Matters in Families and Relationships
Best friends since high school, Linda and May decided to share an apartment after college. They were always there for each other, enjoyed laughs and adventure often, and cheered each other ... Read More
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Are Your Best Days Really Behind You? How Success Can Haunt You
A primary focus of therapy is healing from past traumas and making attempts to improve the parts of ourselves we find unsatisfactory. There’s clearly a need to address these issues to ... Read More
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How Not to React When Survivors of Sexual Trauma Disclose
A survey conducted in 2011 by The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence revealed one in five women and one in 71 men will be raped during their lifetime (Black, Basile, Breiding, ... Read More
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The Challenges of Your 20s: High Expectations, Uncertain Independence
Being a 20-something (an age group making up part of the “millennial” category) in today’s society can, at times, contribute to high levels of stress and anxiety. Many ... Read More
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Help! My Wife Doesn’t Love Me Anymore and Says She Needs ‘Space’
Dear GoodTherapy.org, I’ve been married for nine years and have two children. This past month, my wife told me that she no longer loves me and she needs space. I was diagnosed with ... Read More
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Forgive for Good: The Benefits of Forgiveness and How to Cultivate It
It is a fact of life that in any sort of relationship with others, we risk being neglected, abused, rejected, lied to, or betrayed in some other way. Whether due to minor or major transgressions, ... Read More
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Talking in Circles? Get Communication Back on Track During a Fight
Conflict is an inevitable part of relationships. No two people see everything the same way, have carbon copy preferences, share identical temperaments, care equally about things, express ... Read More
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Narrative Therapy Tactics to Affirm Gender Identity and Expression
Sophia Dembling wrote, “One of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. ... Read More