Today we are talking about why your “No Offense” comment never really offends me & what YOU can do about it. I think it’s safe to say that most people generally don’t talk about their therapy experience with anyone. Less so even when they realize that there is a psychotherapist sitting in the […]
Someone walked up to me the other day and did it again. Approached me in this particular manner. If I were to get a dollar for every time this happens, I would have quite the collection by now. Who knows what I might be able to buy. Seriously. It happens to me SO […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
