Setting better boundaries doesn’t happen overnight…
Deepening your understanding of your current boundary needs and setting a plan to honor them is radical self-love.
Category: Trust
Why Finding a Therapist is Not Like Dating…
The Task of Finding a Therapist…
I often cringe when I hear: “finding a therapist is a lot like dating…” While it’s a unique relationship and does involve a level of fit, it is not like dating, and here’s why…
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Cultivating Resilience, Self-Belief, and Identity
Something that’s so important to keep in mind is this idea that you matter. We can often look around and experience so much noise around us that it can feel hard to feel a sense of peace and calm inside. It can also feel hard to maintain a sense that we are important and that we matter – to ourselves and to others.
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Do I need therapy? Maybe. Probably. Don’t we all?
We all go through times when we feel ill-equipped to navigate a tough situation or distant from ourselves and others. We might know something’s off but struggle to figure out exactly how to change it or what can be done to produce different results.
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How to Increase Self-Compassion + Why it Matters…
For many of us, it’s usually easier to feel compassion for others. It often feels much more difficult to practice kindness toward ourselves. However, compassionate self-talk helps to promote personal growth and development. Where harsh self-talk is blaming, ignores the self and prevents change, compassionate self-talk is loving, understanding, and promotes change and personal growth.
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What is the Modern Accelerated Program (MAP 90-minute consultation) and How Can it Help?
Healthy Relationships and Personal Growth
The MAP 90-minute consult for couples provides a safe space to explore relationship concerns without the pressure to commit to ongoing weekly therapy as partners. I have found in my years of working with couples that sometimes a psychoeducational consultation is exactly what is needed.
Deepening and Repairing Trust Involves This…
When trust feels solid, we feel a strong sense that we are on the same page with someone. We feel they truly understand and value us and respect our wishes and views. But how is it built? What exactly is involved? Continue reading “Deepening and Repairing Trust Involves This…”
Vulnerability Takes Courage…
Part of what I love about being a therapist is the ability to explore in great depth the human condition in all its complexity. I am often struck by my clients’ courage and willingness to grow and achieve a deeper level of connection with themselves and in their intimate relationships.
How Does Couples Therapy Work?
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” -George Bernard Shaw