Sep 29, 2018 | Child & Teen Counseling, Couples & Marriage Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling
Repression of emotion is one of the most common strategies of regulating emotions used by humans. People may suppress emotions for a number of reasons. Just a few reasons may be: (1) When they have expressed emotions in the past, they were ignored. (2) When they have...
Sep 20, 2018 | Couples & Marriage Counseling, Family Counseling
As a therapist, I often encounter couples in conflict and as a result, they have grown quite frustrated and weary. Don’t get me wrong, everyone has conflict! Did I say “Everyone”? Yes, I did, but many couples are able to work through their differences and ultimately...
Sep 1, 2018 | Couples & Marriage Counseling, Family Counseling
Most people get married believing a myth that marriage is a beautiful box full of all the things they have longed for: Companionship, Intimacy, Friendship, etc. The truth is that marriage at the start is an empty box. You must put something in before you can take...
Sep 1, 2018 | Child & Teen Counseling, Couples & Marriage Counseling, Family Counseling
If you’re like me, I have an uncanny ability to listen to so many things at the same time I don’t really hear any of them. Between the music, the phone, the TV, the computer and whatever voices I have in my head (the healthy kind :)), I can barely focus on another...
Aug 29, 2018 | Couples & Marriage Counseling, Family Counseling
There are three points I want to address regarding compromise. The first is the importance of self-care. I do not recommend an individual compromise their own wellbeing just to appease their partner. A healthy marriage requires two relatively healthy individuals. ...
Aug 20, 2018 | Child & Teen Counseling, Family Counseling
It wasn’t the first party I had been to. In fact, I had been to lots of parties before this one. But this is the first one I drank at. It had all the necessary ingredients for youthful adventure and stupidity: Lots of unsupervised teenagers, miles of forest, a bond...
