Category: Counseling

What are the things in life we seek to maintain?  Our car, home, lawn, body, hair, physical health, budget…just to name a few.  Maintenance care is all around us yet we often overlook it for our mental health. One of […]

Are your expectations hitting the kill switch to your happiness? Throughout the years of working with couples and individuals struggling with interpersonal relationships, addictions, anxiety, depression, or simply adjusting to their ever changing lives I have witnessed the turmoil caused […]

“Soften your eyes. Relax your face,” I instruct my clients when we are working on deep relaxation in session. And the change is immediate and visible as the lines of tension fall away and a peaceful expression steals over them. […]

What Therapy Stage Are You In Everything in life is a process the same is true for therapy.  Here are some common stages of therapy that many of our clients experience during the course of their time with us. SURVIVAL: […]

Have you heard that phrase, “stay the course”?  For the last couple of years, as Michael & I have worked to build our practice it’s been my mantra.  “Watch the numbers but hold them loosely”, “don’t give up when there […]

According to a Forbes study in 2013 only 8% of the New Year’s resolutions proclaimed on January 1 will come to fruition by December 31. I’m not great at math, but even I know that a 92% failure rate does […]

“The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.” This is a moving and brilliant conversation about depression and it’s effects on the human spirit.  It’s […]

For You –  Most of us know that goal setting is essential to achievements and healthy living.  But goal setting is not always so easy or so black and white.  This article, 4 Ugly Facts About Setting Goals, is a great read […]

The above video clip is one that far too many of us can relate to. You know that feeling when you’d rather blow torch a phone than make a phone call… Or you’d rather go shopping for hours on end […]

Here is a blog I wrote for Polish: Refining the Details, a summary of my presentation on living a Masquerade… Growing up I always loved Halloween, I loved scary movies, haunted houses, trick or treating and especially dressing up. I […]