For as long as I’ve been counseling individuals and couples through relationship issues, I’ve long advocated (as I am sure many others to do) to ensure that each person in a relationship (this is true of both intimate and non-intimate relationships) ...

At first glance, these two areas of psychology do not seem to correlate with each other necessarily.  However, when you begin to think a little more, I believe there is a correlation. For starters, what is the definition of trust?  According to ...

For so many men, crying has been given a cold shoulder.  If you were a man and you cried, you were described as soft, weak or faint-hearted.  Research indicates that there is a biological explanation for this too.  It may relate to levels of ...

I have found in the course of my clinical mental health counseling practice work that somethings are so obvious, yet when we are in the moment, we cannot fathom any other perspective. Case in point – when doing marriage & couples therapy, one ...

I came across a very interesting reference in Psychology Today’s May 2015 edition.  On page 10, it quotes the The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, 2014 study addressing the correlation between the number of wedding ...

Did you catch this article about marriage counseling?  If you’ve ever thought about couples counseling, read this article – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-doyle/marriage-counseling_b_1933187.html. However, when you are done with that, ...

How often do we feel like we are being slighted?  How often does something happen that we interpret as being directed at us?  Too often we are but an innocent bystander when other things happen around us.  Yet for some reason, we respond as if someone ...

Occasionally, someone will come into my office and we begin our chit-chat about whatever has been going on his/her life since the last time we met.  And then, the client says “well, I shouldn’t feel that way,” or asks “Am I too sensitive?  Maybe ...

Quite often I am faced with the following question from one or both of my clients (separately or together) in a couples counseling circumstance.  “Why should I do anything for him/her, when I don’t see him/her doing anything for me?”  When ...

I have found in my practice when working with adults that we spend an inordinate amount of time and energy on things in life that we have little control over.  This is most certainly a coping strategy due to one of two factors.  Either because the ...