- Character Matters
- The Building Blocks of Emotional and Social Intelligence
- The Dialectic of Courage
- Analysis vs Observation
- Interventions in Relational Counseling
- Anxiety as a Signal of Misalignment
- Can Democracy Survive Without Truth?
- The ‘List’ – Goal creation in couples counseling
- “Control Yourself!” Who is being asked to control who?
- Teenagers and Anxiety
- The Tide
- What is the Purpose of Government?
- Invalidating Communication | What not to do when offering emotional support
- Helping Diabetes Management in Teens | Identifying the barriers to achieving desired A1C
- Does laziness cause depression or does depression cause laziness?
- Choice and quality of life | What choice, if removed, would most positively impact your well being?
- Solutions and Causes of Anxiety
- Concrete vs Abstract responsibility for teenagers
- Intentionality and Happiness | How life choices are impacted by purpose
- Double Binded Communication
- Addiction, Self-determination, Flow, Mindfulness, Culture, Emotional Intelligence, and Human Bonding
- The Relativity of Oppression
- The Relationship between Anxiety and Attention
- Do you Like your self when you are with this person?
- Bottom Up and Top Down interventions to support regulation
- Fear, Competence, Values and Anger in Parenting Rambunctious Children
- When Attachment Theory and Existentialism Compete
- Parenting Paradigm | a level system to conceptualize parenting strategies
- Happy Relationship – loving another as yourself – loving we to love me
- The Depression Bubble
- Early Childhood Questions to Promote Bonding
- Choice is Oppression
- Accepting, condoning, and boundaries
- A metaphor for the relationship between control and suffering
- Playful Communicative Connection Enactment
- Why Democracy Failed
- What is the purpose of Marriage?
- interregulation – a simpler explanation | regulating communication
- Parenting and Rowboats
- It is only fear
- Breathe before you help others to breathe
- Attunement Exercise
- Hope in a space of Hopelessness
- Wind Blown Hair (Music Post)
- I'm not alone (Music)
- Shed Your Old Skin (Music)
- Come to Carry us Home (music)
- Parenting Teens with Diabetes
- Stopping unwanted thoughts and daydreams
- Feedback loop in a Couples interaction
- Boy of the Fall (music post)
- What is a mentally healthy person? Characteristics of an emotionally, spiritually, and socially intelligent person.
- Is Depression the Result of Self-Centeredness?
- Feelings are important in growing consciousness – Existential and Mindfulness Based Emotional Reflection Therapy
- Reflection and Psychotherapy
- Systemics in Psychotherapy
- Democratically Denying Education – the internal flaw of democracy
- Integrity and Your Social Potential
- Scientism
- The thoughts, emotions, and behaviors triangle
- Respecting Elders in a Society of Rugged Individualism
- Freedom from and Freedom to
- Hope affects outcome… why?
- The difference between good intentions and good actions = understanding, humility, and empathy
- Face your Suffering on your way towards Freedom and Balance | The Effects of Resistance
- Adlerian psychotherapy – an overview
- What is a systemic approach in psychotherapy? Family systems theory intervention
- What is the Difference between a Psychologist, a Psychotherapist, a Psychiatrist, a Social Worker, a LPC, a LMFT, a LSCW, a PsyD, a PHD………
- Dialectics – open your mind and balance will occur naturally
- What are 'triggers' – automatic responces
- Overcoming feelings of Shame | Shame avoided will stay quite the same…
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy simplified
- Relationship Help | “My partner says that I don’t listen” | how to meet the emotional needs of your partner
- The Sex vs. Emotional Intimacy debate | how to make both partners feel loved in a relationship
- Authenticity and Stress | you are healthiest when you are your real self | “don’t plant corn in the sand”
- Relationship feel stuck? Try pretending that you don’t know everything about your partner
- Mind won’t stop ruminating? Take your shoes off to encourage a state of mindfulness
- Drink too much? Try being yourself in your life… choose to stop inhibiting yourself
- Overcoming anger | are you angry with another or are you truly angry with your self?
- Asking Clients Permission | offering choices to clients in counseling | tips for psychotherapists
- Asking for feedback in therapy | collaborative psychotherapy | empowering the client | tips for psychotherapists
- 30 Common questions psychotherapist should be able to answer succinctly | tips for therapists | how to market your private psychotherapy practice
- Teenage Drinking | Solving Youth Substance Abuse | restraint theory, individuation, overpopulation, cultural priorities and freewill
- Immediacy | tips for therapists | How to use immediacy | experiential techniques
- Weight loss – what does that food mean to you? Insight, reflection, and replacement in achieving weight loss goals.
- Parenting fundamentals – The basics for co-parenting your children
- Why should I focus on my Breathing? – Worry reduction.
- Realistic Weight Loss Work Sheet – Keep what you love, substitute and add where you can, and remove the unimportant
- Euphoria and gratitude… a runners high at 9,000 feet
- Forming Secure Attachments – Handout for parents and caregivers
- Components of the Obesity and Nutrition Problem in our Shared Country
- Why some fail to lose Weight – Restraint theory
- Synchronicity – The rattlesnake’s message of change and balance
- Jung’s Theory of Synchronicity, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
- Placebo effect – an underrated healer
- Addiction Intervention Debate | Increasing Freedom by fostering an increase in consciousness, reflective ability, and emotional availability | Is there always a choice or are certain stimuli too controlling?
- Support group for teens with type 1 diabetes
- An example of ‘Auras’ and ‘Energy’ for our left brained friends
- Compassionately Assertive – Maintaining Boundaries without Aggression – using empathy and clarity to get your needs met
- Parenting questions for couples – Questionnaire to increase synergy, collaboration, empathy, and overall understanding for couples who are co-parenting a child.
- ‘not -talked-about’ themes in Human Sexuality – normalizing
- Play therapy explained | How to use play therapy | Attuning to your child | how and why it works
- Balanced Boundaries – a metaphor about giving and taking for the health of yourself and others
- Alcohol use and marital satisfaction
- What is empathy? How do I know if I am experiencing empathy?
- Existentialism in Psychotherapy
- pathologizing, labels, dichotomies, existentialism and acceptance
- Anger and Arguments – Are you defending the topic or your self?
- Existential Recovery – Emotional freedom inherent in the choice of meaning
- Empathy building exercise – learning to be empathetic – increasing emotional understanding
- Vengeance and the Ego
- The Evolution of CBT = Mindfulness – moving from changing projections to eliminating projections
- Past goals driving current choices? – Overcoming your inner teenager
- Who are you? How to stop conforming to expectations and to start presenting the self you would like to present
- Problems sleeping? 10 Tips to help you sleep
- Overcoming addiction to substance – find a replacement behavior that offers a comparable result – hope involves you being both reasonable and honest with yourself
- Setting realistic expectations and living within those realistic expectations…
- Premarital counseling questions | life long commitment questionnaire | questions for a long & happy relationship
- Strength Based Therapy – what it means
- Understanding how your Values impact the choices that you make
- Narrative therapy summary
- Creating Motivation for the Change Process – Why creating a mental image of the ‘new you’ works
- The Oppression of Creativity and Progression – How regulation, oversight, managed care, and “Big Brother” oppress growth
- Logical Reason to Change – The Inevitability of Anxiety Whether You Change or Not
- What does LPC, LSW, LMFT, PsyD, PHD, LCSW, MD, MS, MA stand for?
- Why might we be misinformed about human sexuality?
- What is Transference in psychotherapy – placing emotional reactions related to another onto the therapist
- What is Love? How do I know if I am in love or have experienced love? Love is selflessness and felt security… love is also a physical and emotional feeling
- 7 Health and Weight loss tips from a psychotherapist who is married to a nutritionist
- Why are people Defensive? Reducing the anxiety of change
- Some stress is best left
- Changing unhelpful beliefs – "If ____________ then I will be happy"
- What is the meaning of Life? – To live… consciousness of consciousness in existence
- Psychotherapy Forum – Start a new Topic and Join the Discussion in the Wellness Forum
- Mindfulness Interventions for Both the Therapist and the Client to Increase Therapeutic Effectiveness When Treating Trauma
- Human Sexuality and Stress Management
- Reducing suffering – How trying to avoid or control suffering often increases suffering – When to act and when to accept without action
- Guided Visualization for Emotional Resiliency – comforting a younger you
- Structural family therapy summary
- Tips for getting your Attachment needs met in your adult relationships
- Argumentative? Dichotomies in conversations lead to arguments not solutions
- Does being drunk make you uninhibited? | alcohol, authenticity and primal instinct
- Authentic Self – Are you the work you or the outside of work you?
- Do Therapists get Therapy? | Controlling bias and counter-transference in counseling
- How do you find the right therapist for you?
- Allowing and Believing
- Courage to use your Strength to attend to your Fear
- ‘The Good Enough Sex Model’ (Metz and MaCarthy 2007) – a review and summary
- Meditative Breath – focusing on the expansion and contraction of your chest and stomach.
- The Science behind Emotional Intelligence: literature review
- Narrative therapy: the externalization of perception
- Michele Weiner Davis’s ‘Divorce Busting’ – a response
- Solution Focused Therapy simplified
- Empathy – nature and nurture
- A subtle difference between Narrative and Cognitive psychotherapy
- 'narrative means to theraputic ends' – book summary and review
- Rogerian (or Person Centered) therapy summary
- Combined Wellness intervention
- Gestalts vs. Math and deductive reasoning
- Is it ‘cheesy’ to be positive?
- Fear of Snakes is from the fear of snakes
- Love with the mind, the body and the spirit
- Ignorance is Bliss?
- Anti-dogmatic types have a dogma themselves
- A subjective interpretation of Jesus’ message about the forgiveness of sin…
- Postmodernism – making an ‘out there’ philosophy useful
- Chaos is the result of resisting what is
- Selfishness is also Selfless
- Motivation v.s. Dedication … Can dedication be created?
- Love is something we experience with our emotions
- Labels, identification, and judgments from an existential view
- Forgiveness is the Heart of Justice
- Fear
- Forgiveness
- Chaos, structure, rigidity, compassion and acceptance
- Journaling for health, for context, for hope, for expression and for awareness
- Gestalt Psychotherapy – an overview
- Spend your energy on that which you can truly influence
- the 7 things you need to create meaningful change – precursors of change
- Attachment – why we say and emote one way when we truly feel and think a different way
- The Talking Cure for Trauma – holding freedom – you are the lotus
- ‘Empirically based practice’ has been proven irrelevant to therapy outcomes – empirically
- Stating your internal feelings – acknowledge for acceptance – resistance is suffering
- Past blame or “whose fault it is” and on to solutions
- Externalization – you are with the problem… you are separate from the problem
- Motivation to Exercise – why it is hard and how to make it easier
- Harmful Interaction Patterns – which do you do and what can help?
- Mindfulness Exercise – notice your senses without judgment =54321 present
- Can you be too close? – Enmeshment and automatic emotions transfer
- Ineffective Solution Strategies – without a simplified problem, a solution is unlikely
- Trauma – What happens to a person who has experienced trauma and why.
- Wellness with euphoria… sometimes what you want…you may already have
- Mindfulness – Why it is helpful and what 'being in the present moment' means
- Existentialism – meaning, meaninglessness and your life
- Timeouts for adults – conflict resolution and avoidance strategies
- Genograms – reducing blame and finding solutions in your family tree
- Mantras while you exercise – increase your awareness of your present surroundings
- Why Feeling Questions? – Emotional Expression Enhances Bonding
- Talking with Teens– Try using authentic open-minded empathetic curiosity.
- Relationship Sexually Stuck? – A look at your unwritten rules of engagement.
- My Dog – the personal trainer
- The interdependence of dependence and independence
- Argumentative? – substitute the word "but" for "and"
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