Mystery Can Improve Your Sex Life
In our culture, we largely view relationships as something that will complete us. We find another person, we fall in love, and we synthesize our existence with that person. This merging with another p ...
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 ...
Understanding Pornography Addiction
Understanding Pornography Addiction One of the most common misunderstandings in the field of sex addiction is related to the that of pornography addiction regardless of whether it's online or in maga ...
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 ...
Coming Out Advice for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People
Coming Out Advice for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People updated 3/20/22 A couple of years ago, I was contacted by a reporter who was working on an article about gay and lesbian individuals coming ...