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23rd Dec

2015

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) ...

25th Sep

2015

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 ...

14th Aug

2015

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 ...

20th May

2015

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 ...

13th May

2015

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, ...

29th Apr

2015

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 ...

22nd Apr

2015

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 ...

15th Apr

2015

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 ...

28th Jan

2015

How often have we thought that someone or many someones have a certain perception of us that is most likely not accurate?  How much damage does that do to us and our sense of self?  The questions of where this comes from and how to counter-balance this ...

22nd Jan

2015

I have found in my role of therapist that one common area that is so pervasive in those seeking counseling is the lack of sleep that clients get on a nightly basis.  One would think that such basic needs, like sleep, one doesn’t deprive themselves of. ...