Posted: October 28, 2025
Building Adult Relationships With Your Kids One of the reasons I enjoy working with couples who are parents with children still at home is that I've just been through it myself. With one child just starting in college and another in her junior year of...
Posted: October 15, 2025
So often, when couples come to therapy, they’re in a really difficult place, spending years re-enacting the same dysfunctional script. One of the common threads linking many of the couples who come in the most deeply entrenched in painful, unhelpful scripts is a lack of...
Posted: October 8, 2025
As we enter into autumn, I have found myself having numerous conversations about entering into a season of increased darkness and cold. For some individuals that struggle with seasonal depression (SAD- seasonal affective disorder) may notice increased fatigue, decreased motivation, a reduction of socializing, having...
Posted: September 29, 2025
One of the questions I get the most from couples starting in therapy is what can they do today to start changing things. It’s a wonderful question, one of the best actions I can offer is to appreciate and show care for yourself and your...
Posted: September 15, 2025
When there is nothing else you can do within your control, it often points to needing to practice radical acceptance. Radical acceptance is a distress tolerance skill (rooted in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy or “DBT”), aimed at reducing the individual anguish of current hardship. It is...
Posted: September 15, 2025
In virtually all relationships, there are things unsaid—words we have not spoken out of fear, or a conscious choice to keep the peace by not sharing. In a strained relationship, there is so much unsaid. Each partner typically learns that there are things that aren't...