What Happens During a Phone Consultation – Their Words It was almost in a whisper that she said it. On the phone, during an initial phone consultation, a few weeks back. “To be honest, the concerns, and all the struggles that we’ve had lately,” she said, “aren’t new by any means. They’ve […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In some ways, I think of this as another public announcement of sorts. Issuing a warning about marriage counseling. You have heard it said. The infamous ‘Sometimes it gets worse before it gets better’. The same thing applies to counseling. Your Warning about Marriage Counseling – the DIGGING IT OUT Part Couples […]
She got really quiet before she said it out loud. Not that it’s an uncommon occurrence on the phone, but her voice on that day just got particularly silent. Remembering Love – How It Often Goes Sometimes the initial phone consultation goes that way. “What if we don’t make it? What if the […]
Why I Love What I Get to Do Every Day – THE PHONE CALL I was on the phone with my mom. She had just casually asked me how work was going, only to offer: “It must be really rewarding to know that because a couple came to see you, they are not going […]
Relationship? What relationship? Well, I am talking about the relationship that you have with your spouse, your significant other, your lover, boyfriend or fiancé – whichever one applies for you. Let me guess. When you look around, it seems like everyone’s got it figured out. From what you can tell, anyway. Nobody seems to be […]
