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Counseling

When Should Couples Consider Relationship Counseling?

Couples counseling provides a space where understanding, growth, and progress can happen. Therapy can also be preventative.

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Support

Why Is Therapy So Expensive?

Is it really worth three figures just to talk to someone? Well, when the person in question is a trained expert in psychology, relationships, and self-improvement, they are not comparable to a layperson who is primarily lending an ear.

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Couples Therapy

Two Blueprints, One Relationship: How Attachment Theory Helps Couples Stop Fighting About the Surface

Working with couples is one of the most rewarding, and one of the most complex, experiences in the therapy room. Unlike individual therapy, where you hold space for one person’s inner world, couples therapy asks you to hold space for two. Two belief systems. Two communication styles. Two histories. And two very different ideas about what love is supposed to look and feel like. As a couples therapist of 16 years, I am passionate about understanding both partners separately and how they are together.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Los beneficios de la Terapia Cognitivo-Conductual (TCC) para mejorar sus relaciones personales.

La TCC es una terapia que ayuda a identificar y cambiar sus pensamientos negativos, a aumentar el control de sus emociones no deseadas y a limitar su comportamiento disfuncional. A continuación, explico en más profundidad cómo le puede ayudar la TCC en su vida cotidiana.

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Counseling

What Should I Look for When Choosing A Therapist?

Are you wondering how to choose a therapist? I have found that one major factor stands out above all others: the connection between the therapist and the client. While theoretical approaches matter, therapy is ultimately a human relationship.

Achieve

The Psychology of Belief: How Arteta Rebuilt Arsenal’s Team Identity

We tell ourselves stories about who we are and what we mean. These narratives shape our core beliefs and influence our identity.

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Emotion

Masculinity, Emotion, and Football: How football gives men permission to cry, hug, celebrate, and grieve.

Why are men able to express themselves so easily in sport without judgment? Grown men crying in sport are rarely seen as weak. Yet, outside of that, it is? What is the paradox?

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Misbehavior

More Than Misbehavior: Differences between Conduct Disorder (CD), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) & Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)

Anger is a normal and healthy human emotion, and it can look different as the child develops. In some cases, there may be something deeper going on that may be associated with a mental health diagnosis.

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Anxiety

When Home Stress Impacts Emotional Regulation at Work

Many professionals struggle with emotional regulation at work without realizing that the source isn’t work at all. Stress from home life, like relationship conflict, parenting challenges, financial pressure, or caregiving responsibilities, can spill into the workplace, impacting mood, focus, and workplace relationships.

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When Should Couples Consider Relationship Counseling?

Why Is Therapy So Expensive?

Two Blueprints, One Relationship: How Attachment Theory Helps Couples Stop Fighting About the Surface

Los beneficios de la Terapia Cognitivo-Conductual (TCC) para mejorar sus relaciones personales.

What Should I Look for When Choosing A Therapist?

The Psychology of Belief: How Arteta Rebuilt Arsenal’s Team Identity

Masculinity, Emotion, and Football: How football gives men permission to cry, hug, celebrate, and grieve.

More Than Misbehavior: Differences between Conduct Disorder (CD), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) & Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)

When Home Stress Impacts Emotional Regulation at Work

What Is Positive Psychology?

What to Do When Your Therapist Just Doesn’t Get It

How to Get the Most from Your Psychiatric Treatments: Combining Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation with Talk Therapy

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