Our Sex Life Sucks…Should We Open Up Our Relationship?
Our Sex Life Sucks...Should We Open Up Our Relationship? It’s not uncommon for sex in a long-term relationship to go stale. For some couples, this can lead to questions about whether or not they shou ...
Somatic Experiencing For Help With Trauma
Somatic Experiencing For Help With Trauma Although talk therapy can be powerful and effective, there are times where other approaches are needed to effectively treat trauma. Many people who have been ...
Why is EMDR Therapy an Effective Treatment for Trauma?
Why is EMDR Therapy an Effective Treatment for Trauma? EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Although that sounds complicated, it's actually quite a simplistic process that c ...
Using Empathy to Help Your Partner Heal After An Affair
Using Empathy to Help Your Partner Heal After An Affair The period after cheating has been discovered is painful, chaotic, and anxiety provoking. The vulnerability from the uncertainty of this experi ...
Handling an Emotional Affair
When clients come into couples therapy for an emotional affair, there are many things that have to be taken into consideration within the relationship and within therapy. Emotional affairs are compl ...
Overcoming a Little “t” Trauma
When we think of trauma, we usually think of the most obvious of traumatic events like those that are related to assault, war, accidents, or natural disasters. These experiences are undoubtedly diffic ...
Seeing Through Your Blind Spot
How do you know what you don't know about yourself? You listen to others. We all like to think that we have good knowledge about our reactions and emotions about all things. However, we all have thing ...
Identifying Low Levels of Depression
Severe depression is quite easy to identify. Most people know that they're dealing with depression when they are experiencing these more extreme versions of this emotion. However, if you're dealing wi ...
11 Interpersonal Skills to Take Control of an Addiction
Overcoming an addiction is largely learning how to control the behavior itself. However further recovery consists of changing ineffective interpersonal patterns. This list addresses these commonly ove ...
Silver Linings Playbook: A Therapist’s Review
Updated October 18th, 2024 SPOILER ALERT—This review is a critical analysis of the theme of mental illness portrayed in this film. For those who have not yet viewed this movie, this review could gi ...