When Your Partner Suffers from Depression—Be Supportive While Keeping Healthy Boundaries
When Your Partner Suffers from Depression—Be Supportive While Keeping Healthy Boundaries Watching someone you love suffer from depression can be as devastating for you as it is for them. You might ...
Men and Therapy: Get Past the Stigma and Feel Better!
Men and Therapy: Get Past the Stigma and Feel Better! Men benefit from therapy just as much as anyone else, but are generally very apprehensive about actually going to see a therapist. Only 2 out of ...
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 ...
Emotionally Surviving Black Friday
Emotionally Surviving Black Friday Black Friday, and especially the days leading up to it, can be intense, even if you're not aware of it. It is important to pay attention to how marketers create a l ...
Walking Through Pain…What’s The Point?
Identifying and accepting pain and the sources of this pain is not at all a fun thing to do. So why do it? Why do therapists push for this so often? Walking through pain can help with several things. ...
Dealing with Failure
Failure is in the definition and in the one who defines it. Some failures are more universal than others, but reactions to particular failures tend to be as individual as the experiences themselves. A ...
Working Backward from the Emotion
Working Backwards from the Emotion Working through an emotional issue is often not easy. There are several strategies that people use, which disguise themselves as success. Some will distract themsel ...
Disarming Misery
When I'm working with clients who are dealing with serious depressive issues, the hopelessness that they experience can wreak havoc in their lives. Many times these clients forget that they have optio ...
Identifying and Overcoming Anxiety and Depression
This week is National Anxiety and Depression awareness week. When we think of anxiety and depression, we tend to think of the most debilitating and extreme cases of these feelings. The truth is that t ...
Learning How to Feel
A common, yet underestimated problem that many of my clients face is learning to accept and experience emotions. Feeling "numb" is something that many people who enter into therapy discover as a probl ...