Building Your Child’s Self-Esteem
Anyone who is successful in some aspect of their lives will tell you how self- esteem and confidence played an important role in their success. Self-esteem is the way we feel about ourselves, and is something that we develop early on and carry throughout our lives.
The Importance of Self Care
Many of the clients that I meet with come in with overwhelming amounts of anxiety. Whether the anxiety be about work, relationships, children, managing a household and so on, it is no doubt distressing and can feel like a thinking trap you are unable to escape from.
Healing Past Hurts- Resentment in Couples Therapy
I meet with many couples who come in and tell me that they have been having the same fight for years and years. They will tell me that no matter how many times they talk about the same topic or have the same argument, it always seems to end in gridlock- nothing is solved or resolved, and both people are left frustrated and unheard.
Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation During Pregnancy
You may have heard of mindfulness meditation—it’s become the hot new trend in meditation practice in recent years. However, what you may not know, is just how beneficial mindfulness can be.
Recovery Meetings
The early stages of addiction recovery are the most challenging, which is why recovery meetings make welcoming newcomers their highest priority. If you are on your first day or week of sobriety, then it is important that you understand that you cannot trust your thoughts.
Shame- The Trickiest Feeling
Shame is a word that we have all heard before, but rarely hear talked about. Oftentimes shame gets mistaken or used in place of the word guilt.
Parents: They're Just People Too
When we are little kids, we look up to our parents for everything. Not only do we depend on them to meet our basic needs, but we tend to idealize them and see them as perfect and never failing.
Emotional Triggers: Why They Are Important and Why We Need to Understand Them
Understanding our emotional triggers and learning how to communicate our emotions to others when we feel triggered is an essential part of building and maintaining healthy relationships. We all have emotional triggers and sensitivities and they are different for each person.
The Power of Breath
It is remarkable how much of the day we can get through without taking time to stop and pay attention to our breathing. We live in a time where life is so fast paces.
Marijuana and the Adolescent Brain
Marijuana is arguably one of the least harmful mind-altering substances. The debate over the severity of harmfulness is controversial.
The Myth About Therapy: “The One Session Fix”
I have spoken to and seen many clients who have never been to therapy before. Understandably it can be a scary and new thing to try, especially with most of the knowledge we have of therapy coming from movies, TV shows or some other form of media.
How a Healthy Diet Can Help Addiction Recovery
Substance abuse and poor nutrition often go hand-in-hand. Substance users may have irregular eating patterns, poor diet, or be unable to afford quality food.
Back to Basics- Communicating Needs
As couples therapist Sue Johnson has said, conflict is not the core issue between couples, emotional disconnection is. In other words, emotional disconnection is the illness, and conflict is the presenting symptom.
Parenting Adolescents- Extending the Olive Branch
Being a parent has to be one of the toughest jobs in the world. No matter how many books you read or how much you do to prepare for having a child and being a parent, nothing can quite prepare you enough for the real deal.
Healthy Relationships and the Self
As a relationship counselor, my passion is helping individuals, couples, and families to heal through healthy relationships. Relationships can come in many forms; most obviously, our relationships with our romantic partners, our families, our friends and coworkers
Healthy Relationships & Drinking
The most important relationship to nurture and attend to is the one with ourselves. With everything we are balancing in our lives like work, friends, family, kids, exercise, healthy eating, etc, it can feel like extra work to have to also show up for ourselves at the end of the day.
Healthy Relationships and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy(CBT) is an evidenced- based treatment that has been shown to significantly reduce depression and anxiety which may be contributing to problems in your relationships. Frequently, couples come in to session making broad generalizations about one another: “You never listen!”
Communication in Healthy Relationships
While many of us consider ourselves to be “good listeners”, the truth is that many of us do not know how to really listen. The skill of Active Listening can move you and your beloved lightyears forward in your ability to communicate effectively with one another.
Interdependency in Healthy Relationships
It’s a common experience to become overwhelmed and fearful in relationships. Something I hear frequently in working with couples is the underlying question, “How do I know that this person won’t leave me?”.
Announcement: New Anger Management Group In Playa Vista
Anger Management and Healthy Relationships. Anger can be a good thing. Anger can be the energy to move, the energy to make changes, an internal voice or cue that action must be taken. If we are…