We all have expectations. We’d lie if we said we didn’t. Whether at work, at home, in your personal life and development – if you are alive, you have expectations – of people, of things, of how life’s gonna turn out. Expectations Makeover – The Beginning of It All Now, there […]
It’s coming – Even though you can still smell the mashed potatoes and the turkey, the holidays are upon us. Ready or not. The question that nobody is asking is: How do you make sure that your marriage survives the days (or weeks in many cases) of family staying at your place? You know […]
The marriage therapist that I am, I walked into my office for the enth time. This one day, for one reason or another, it just hit me in a different way. And I couldn’t keep it to myself. Contrary to what you may see in so many other places around you. I […]
How do you know that your marriage is in trouble and you need help? There is a lot of writing about how you know your relationship needs the help of marriage coaching or therapy. Or how you know that your marriage is already beyond helping. Because your relationship has been on life-support for […]
If you are looking to find ways to ruin date night because you have been on a really good long-term streak, or you just hate spending time with your spouse so dang much, this is for you. This is also for you if you are an over-achiever (See Bonus point when you scroll […]
What is an initial intake session? As part of the intake process, following the 90 min initial in-person consultation (described in details here), once you and your spouse agree on wanting to work with me, this is our first step. [This is the second part of the 2-part series called what is the difference between […]
An initial in-person consultation vs. the initial intake session — What are they and what’s the difference? This question comes up every so often so I only feel like it would doing everyone a favor if I answered it here. [This is the first part of a two-part series. If you would like to […]
The Single Biggest Mistake – Don’t Do What They Did – PART I You will not believe how long I debated. Over and over again, how many times I talked myself out it – I lost track. But when it happened again for the I don’t remember which number of times, I knew […]
Celebrate Your Victories: This Is How It Started So you asked your spouse to do something specific. Like — cook a meal. Or clean the house. And you come home one day, late because of a meeting you had to attend. You walk in and you sort of can’t believe what you […]
And more importantly, how do I find a therapist who is right for me/for us? That’s the underlying question. And we’ll get to that in a second. Finding a therapist is like buying a plant You are looking at this image, wondering what a potted plant has to do with finding […]
