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When You Just Can’t Figure Out The Right Words: Sand Tray Therapy
Feedback from this therapy has been phenomenal! I personally have used it with individuals who have been through trauma, abuse, or...
Evaluation in Marital Therapy: Individual Factors
In order to treat marital conflict, the therapist needs to get a picture of the emotional state of each spouse. Three criteria Guerin and...
Why Optimism Matters
“Pessimistic prophecies are self-fulling.” – Martin Seligman, Ph.D. The topic of optimism reminds me of the common quote: “Life is what...
Getting “Unstuck”
Defining EMDR and how it works How Does it Work? When a person experiences intense emotion, their brain cannot process information as it...
The Sandwich Generation
The Sandwich Generation is a generation of people who care for their aging parents while supporting their own children. According to the...
Being Together While Apart: Making Long-Distance Marriage Work
Set Up Boundaries The most important thing you and your spouse can do for yourselves is to set very clear boundaries of what the...
My Child is Gay… Now What?
You are probably familiar with these words as they are becoming more common in mainstream society. But if you or someone you love doesn’t...
Evaluation In Marital Therapy: Triangles
We are following along what Philip J. Guerin, Jr. Leo F. Fay, Susan L. Burden, and Judith Gilbert Kautto wrote in The Evaluation and...
How To Appropriately Utilize Rewards and Punishments
The theme for focusing on solutions is: What is the problem and what is the solution? Children are excellent problem solvers and have...
Now You’re Speaking my Love-Language: Acts of Service
If these 5 love languages are new to you, don’t worry! First, I encourage you and your partner to discover your own love languages by...
Getting Lost and Finding Yourself: Stepping Outside of Your Teenage Shell
My Experiences Middle school feels like another life to me. High school is a funny and distant memory to me because of how deeply I felt...
3 Tips on How to Use a Mantra to Shift Your Thinking
Mantra means, “a tool for the mind.” The practice of using a mantra has been around for a very long time and is used to shift thinking...
Opposites attract, but do they last?
You need quiet when you first wake up, they need loud audio stimulation. Your idea of a date night is a quiet evening, their idea is a...
The Truth About Health Anxiety
As a therapist, health anxiety is something that I have battled for the past ten years. In my mind, a headache may turn into a brain...
Now You’re Speaking my Love-Language: Physical Touch
If these 5 love languages are new to you, don’t worry! First, I encourage you and your partner to discover your own love languages by...
Your Superpower
Last month brimmed with exciting entertainment ventures from the franchises Game of Thrones and Marvel Entertainment. The global...
Why Your Relationship is Stealthily Unhealthy
Criticism is an attack that dismantles your partner. When we think of unhealthy relationships, we often think of the extremes, such as...
Evaluation in Marital Therapy: Marital Dyad Factors
Emotional Climate To begin, the authors describe an emotional climate using the terms: Safety Is the relationship a safe place? If so,...
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
NPD involves a pattern of egotistical behavior, a lack of empathy, and an extreme need for admiration. Others often describe people with...
Treatment for Infertility: Fostering Hope
For this post, I would like to focus on the solutions for infertility. Fertility treatment looks different for every family. Options...
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