What happens in good therapy is hard to explain to someone who has not yet experienced it. Why is that? Because the person who enters the therapy room often isn't the person therapy will reveal her to be. Her very goals and definitions of who she is belongs to her...
Anger is an uncomfortable emotion for most people. We often wonder what to do with it when we feel it, or want desperately to get rid of it because we associate it with being out-of-control, find it to be destructive, or are afraid it. The Benefits of Anger: Anger...
One frequent problem people present with in therapy is: not knowing how to care for themselves emotionally. Many people make their lives all about caring for others, and not enough about caring for themselves. They might make statements such as: “My husband doesn’t...
When people come to therapy it is usually because they have identified some behavior, some feeling, or some aspect of their life which they find problematic and want to change. Yet psychotherapists have long known that clients usually resist the very changes which...
Gottman Method Couples Counseling is one of the most popular and contemporary approaches to couples counseling used by couples therapists today. What makes it so unique in the therapeutic landscape is that it is entirely based on research findings from couples...
This week, a story in Newsvalley, asked the question “Is talking disappearing from depression therapy?” The question followed the death of beloved actor, Robin Williams, who was reported to have been seeing a therapist for his depression in the period preceding his...
A sign of a strong relationship is not that you never fight or argue. Disagreements and arguments are inevitable when we are emotionally invested in someone. Contrary to popular wisdom, however, fights do not have to tear us apart, but can actually serve as pathways...
A frequent concern couples have is how to express their disagreements without starting a fight. Learning how to communicate with your partner in a way that minimizes your partner's defensiveness and makes it possible to have a conversation and not an argument is vital...
Infidelity and Cheating is Widespread: Statistics show that between 35-50% of all women or men in a relationship have had an affair. With such widespread occurrence of infidelity, affairs cannot only be attributed to some act of deviance or amorality, but must be...
An addiction to drugs and alcohol is not really an addiction to the drugs or to the alcohol. Rather we become addicted to a way of life. Our drug of choice, for better or for worse, helps us find our bearing in the world, and it is much more difficult to let go of a...
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