Top 5 Signs of a Good Marriage Counselor Finding the right marriage counselor can be very difficult. No matter how well trained they are, the therapy won’t be effective if you don’t feel that you three are a good fit. How can you tell if you’ve found a [...]
Cycles of Sex Addiction Those who suffer from a sex addiction typically experience what is called an addictive cycle, which includes four elements: preoccupation, ritual, sexual behavior, and despair. Cycle of Sex Addiction #1: Preoccupation During the preoccupation stage, a sex addict thinks ahead, making sure that he’ll have enough time [...]
Relationship Advice: Four Ways to Take Responsibility for Saving Your Relationship If you find the right partner and want to stay together, it’s your response-ability to know those ways and how to avoid them. John Gottman, a leading researcher on successful marriages and couple’s therapist, cites the negative ways [...]
Marriage Counseling: Exits to Look Out For Entering marriage counseling means that you agree to commit to your partner 100 percent, as you did in the beginning. People always say they want commitment, but for many of us it is terrifying. All too often, earlier experiences in our [...]
Top 2 Ways to Balance Your Relationship in Couple’s Therapy When working in therapy with couples, a balance is attempted between togetherness and separateness. Too much togetherness kills passion and desire. Too much separateness creates too much distance and kills love. The main focus of couple’s therapy is to [...]
Top 3 Ways to Effective Communication in Couples Counseling By the time most couples come to couples counseling, they are engaged in two separate monologues, not a dialogue. By the time they arrive in marriage counseling, they are no longer listening to one another and have stopped being [...]
Sex Addiction Counseling: The Top 3 Myths People not familiar with sex addiction often joke about it, probably because it makes them nervous and uncomfortable. Sex Addiction Counseling Myth #1: Sex Addiction is About Sex People not familiar with sex addiction often joke about it, probably because it [...]
Relationship Counseling & Dating: 3 Tips We do a lot of relationship counseling at the clinic and the topic of dating comes up often. People have a lot of ideas about dating, most of which are negative and hopeless. The frustration is often around unreturned calls, being misled, [...]
Porn Addiction: 6 Helpful Tips for Women on How to Deal with a Partner who Might Have it The biggest referral source for my therapy practice is the computer. Why? Because of Internet infidelity. With one click of the keyboard, women can discover a whole world her partner [...]
Marriage Counseling: 4 Keys to Finding the Best Marriage Counselor for You Some relationship counselors present themselves as being equally competent in all relationship areas: male/male, female/female and male/female. Do a little investigating before jumping to the conclusion that the marriage counselor you are considering is a heterosexual [...]
