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How to Find and Choose the Right Addiction Therapist
Congratulations! You’ve made one of the best decisions you can make: asking for help. Whether you’ve decided to get help to control or moderate your use of alcohol or substances, ... Read More
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3 Ways Positive Relationships Can Support Trauma Recovery
In recent years, health care researchers in the West have looked to medicine and technology for fast solutions to mental health issues. Interestingly, researchers in interpersonal psychology ... Read More
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Trust in the Process: Sitting with Not Knowing in Therapy
One aspect of psychotherapy is that the person in therapy and the therapist participate in a process larger than what either or both can directly observe. Something can be happening in ... Read More
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Is Happiness in Marriage the Point or Merely a Benefit?
In light of the recent Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage across the nation, there has been a surge in the national dialogue about marriage in general. Although a range ... Read More
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Think Small: How a Subtle Change Can Have a Huge Impact
Do you resist change? Do you work hard to maintain the status quo, regardless of its effect on you? Is it possible that you might better tolerate change if you approached it in small doses? All ... Read More
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Thoughts, Emotions, and the Body: Mindfulness for Anxiety
Anxiety can show itself in many forms. Some can be very painful and impairing, and we may need professional help to deal with them. But anxiety is something that everyone experiences at ... Read More
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When Parents Struggle with Feelings about Adult Children
In my psychotherapy practice, I work with many young adults who come into treatment as they recognize that they haven’t developed the necessary emotional tools to succeed as an adult ... Read More
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4 Ways Counseling Can Benefit Autism Spectrum Parents
Raising a child on the autism spectrum can be one of the most rewarding and yet taxing things some parents will ever experience. I know. In addition to being a therapist who works with ... Read More
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When Your Partner’s Opposites Aren’t So Attractive Anymore
There’s a reason you and your partner can’t agree. It’s because you started out as opposites. And opposites attract. So annoying, right? But you are in excellent company ... Read More
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Tug-of-War of Trauma Recovery: Our Inside and Outside Selves
We may have experienced various traumatic experiences in childhood, whether it be abuse, neglect, abandonment, or ongoing misattunements from caregivers that impact our ability to feel ... Read More
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Just Say No? A Guide to Setting Limits with Your Child
It’s a commonly held belief that while our parents’ generation failed to pay enough attention to our thoughts and feelings as children, our generation cares too much about our children’s ... Read More
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The Expectation Trap: How Wanting Is Making You Angry
In my articles on anger management, I frequently talk about how anger gets disguised as another emotion. Conversely, I also emphasize the reverse: other emotions left unnoticed and unacknowledged ... Read More
