Find Out What to Expect at Couples Therapy Don’t know what to expect at couples therapy? If so, you are in the right place. I am in the middle of a 4-part blog series about what you need to know prior to your first couples therapy appointment. Feel free to check out my first …
Marital Therapy: 3 Common Misconceptions Are you getting ready to attend marital therapy? If so, this blog series is for you! If you haven’t already read the first article in this series on marital therapy, it is here. As a Marriage and Family Therapist, many couples come into my office with misconceptions and false expectations …
Tips for First Couples Therapy Session (From a Couples Therapist) Get excited! I’ve decided to do a blog series on helping you to prepare and give you tips for your first couples therapy session. I think it is important to equip incoming couples with information to help set realistic expectations. After all, when expectations …
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12 Signs of Shame In a Man Shame is such a painful emotion, we humans often try to bury it. And we are so good at burying it, we don’t even know when we feel shame. And as I’ve discussed in a previous blog, you can’t tame what you can’t name! The susceptibility to …
What To Do After Witnessing a Traumatic Event… Let me cut to the chase: You may want try EMDR Early Intervention Therapy! But before we get to EMDR Early Intervention, let’s start from the beginning… You just witnessed a terrible and traumatic event You’re in shock and feel overwhelmed. You don’t know what to …
Self Therapy: 31 Questions You Can Ask Yourself I’m going to start off this blog post where I left off in my last post. I stated: Ultimately, my goal is to help you gain clarity and get you back on your own unique path so you have the confidence and tools… to fully …
Therapists don’t have the answers to your problems… But You Do! I’ve noticed that some people take their therapist’s advice as the capital ‘T’ Truth. I sometimes think that therapists have replaced a role that has traditionally been given to a religious leader or a wise elder… And I’m not gonna lie, it makes me …
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I Don’t Know What I Am Feeling Help! If you don’t know what you are feeling, that could be a sign that you are emotionally numbing as a coping strategy. Here are other signs of emotionally numbing out: You don’t enjoy activities that you once did You feel chronically distant or detached from others Life …
Emotional Numbing And Trauma: 4 Things You Need To Know Emotional numbing is a concept that doesn’t get much “air time” in our society. Additionally, people that use emotional numbing as their ‘go-to’ coping mechanism don’t (often) see it as a problem… Heck, they don’t even see it as a coping mechanism. However, one of …
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How To Deal With Your Anxiety: 5 Of The Top Ways In the last post, I shared what you need to know about how to deal with your anxiety. Anxiety is a formidable emotion to deal with and you need to have a clear game plan for how you can calm your anxiety and …
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