When you go to counseling, there's no endpoint. There's a general, vague sense of "Am I getting better?" "or happier?" Or "Are we now getting along?" But unlike, say, taking a course to become something like a lawyer or a doctor or a CPA, there are no milestones, no...

It is a 13-week intensive hybrid of group and personal coaching and 1:1 therapy combined with a skills-training component that is central to your creating the marriage you want. Here is what you'll walk out with: *Taming Your Triggers: You will know yourself...

There are lots of good reasons to not like the idea of therapy. I'm a therapist, but I'm with you, there. *Generally, therapy doesn't work for marriages *Generally, it becomes a he said/she said blame fest that goes no-where *Generally, frustrated therapists end up...

Just because it's been a way of life doesn't mean you have to live with it. Okay, not living with it will mean getting out of your comfort zone. After all if that's all you know then, yeah, it will not be comfortable. But wait! What will peace be like? W-h-a-t  ...

Couples therapists never learned to separate a couple in order to help them be together. In fact, where I was trained, that was a no-no. "What's the point of calling it "couples" therapy, if the couple is going to be separated?" - is what they'd be thinking if they...

Spouses will shut down and it can drive you crazy? Why do they do that? You can think up all kinds of reasons: *They hate me *They have nothing to say *They're trying to torture me None of those are correct. There are some definite reasons why they shut down . . . . ....

"Why can't you be nicer?" "I am nice." "What? You say mean things to me all the time. Why can't you stop?" "That's the way I was raised. That's who I am." Oh really? That's MY question. Oh really, is that who you ARE? Or is that who you got COMFORTABLE being? And how...