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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...


Stay the Course…
“Trust AND enjoy the process.” Heeding this advice, I switched my focus from the destination to the moment. During the last three years,...


Now You’re Speaking my Love-Language: Receiving Gifts
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...


Responding vs. Reacting
“By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can...


Child Abuse Awareness Month
There are many different types of child abuse. Knowing the signs may help you save a child’s life. Neglect Neglect, the most common form...


6 Ways to Build Resiliency
Tools to help you to bounce back from life’s challenges. There are many factors that go into building resiliency. Some involve things...


Evaluation In Marital Therapy: Family System Factors
Premorbid state of the family/marriage The multigenerational family system is important to look at. It’s framework can be used to learn...


Infertility 101
The topic of infertility is a very real matter for an estimated 6.1 million people, or 15% of couples, in the United States. Infertility...


Now You’re Speaking my Love- Language: Quality Time
1) Words of Affirmation – covered in my last blog here! 2) Quality Time 3) Receiving Gifts 4) Acts of Service 5) Physical Touch If these...


The Power of Connection – Part 2
Self Love Prior to listening to Dr. Brown’s audiobook, I was constantly looking at the relationships my clients have with their parents,...


Symbiosis: The Empath and the Narcissist
You may feel as if your purpose in this life is to facilitate the healing of others. You emotionally feed and water others to watch them...


A New Frontier: Pharmaceutical Relief for Postpartum Depression
How does it work? The drug is administered via a one-time transfusion over a 60-hour period. For this reason, new mothers who receive...


Evaluation in Marital Therapy
In the book The Evaluation and Treatment of Marital Conflict by Philip J. Guerin, Jr. Leo F. Fay, Susan L. Burden, and Judith Gilbert...


What Is Psychosocial Development?
Stage One- Trust vs. Mistrust (ages birth-one year) This is the stage Erikson describes as the dependence stage. An infant is absolutely...
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