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4 Reasons You Should Try Family Therapy with Your Teenager

As parents, it can be challenging raising a teenager. Teenagers are at the stage where they begin to question the beliefs and values they were raised with, while challenging authority and parental restrictions. Sometimes, teens are struggling with even more issues in their lives. A teen struggling with substance abuse, a mental health disorder, or […]

How To Help Your Teen Cope With Back-to-School Stress

It’s almost fall, which means store shelves are stocked with low-priced notebooks and markers and glue, et al. Soon the familiar brake hiss of school buses will be heard in neighborhoods across the country as kids head back to school. While some kids begrudge alarm clocks and mountains of homework, they still look forward to […]

3 Ingredients to a Happy Marriage

Have you ever wondered why some marriages last decades while others barely go two years? Why do some couples thrive and grow together while others crash and burn? The secret? There are three secrets, actually; three ingredients to a happy and successful marriage. Without all three of these, many couples will struggle to remain connected […]

How to Get the Most Out of Couples Therapy

As a therapist, I often have a front row seat to relationship miracles. Well, okay, there are no miracles really. The fact is “fixing” a relationship takes work. It takes two people wanting it to work and then putting in the effort. Having said that, I have seen couples go from nearly ending it to being back in […]

5 Ways to Reignite the Spark in Your Relationship

‘The spark’ is a phrase that’s used a lot when it comes to romantic relationships. In fact, you might have felt ‘the spark’ in the beginning of your relationship, and as a result, the early days were very exciting for you and your partner. However, like every other flame, ‘the spark’ needs to be kept […]

Family Planning

We’ve all heard the phrase “family planning”.  Most of the time when we hear “family planning” we think about a conversation regarding when to have children or how many children to have.  Let’s change the connotation of this phrase to something else.  Let’s start to have a vision for our families.  Let’s start having a […]

HAVE SOME PRIDE

The role of mother calls for much sacrifice and care.  When you spend your day kissing boo-boos and slicing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, it can be easy to forget all about the person you were before you became a mom.  The woman in your rear view mirror deserves a ride in the front seat […]

NO Power!

 We’ve all seen toddlers as they learn new words.  “No” is usually one of the first words these sweet toddlers learn, and they say it with such conviction and confidence with no regard for how the other person will feel.  The funny thing is that conviction and confidence fades over the years as we learn […]

Celebrate Yourself

This is the time of year when people will gather around graduates and congratulate them on the achievement of earning a diploma. It’s really great when you get to the end of a goal and everyone comes around you to say “good job”. The problem is you don’t always need a “good job” when the […]

Depression Checkup

Let’s do a depression checkup… When I was studying for my master’s degree I remember one of my professors describing the pervasive nature of depression through an analogy. She said it was like walking around with sun glasses on all of the time. Can you imagine having to wear sun glasses 24 hours a day […]