Take Off the AirPods: The Best Couples Therapy Podcasts (and When It’s Time to Step Into the Room)
There’s a reason so many of us love relationship podcasts. They let us eavesdrop on honest conversations about love, conflict, and connection- without having to schedule a session or say anything out loud. For some, podcasts are an easy way to reflect on their relationship; for others, they’re a lifeline during the “roommate phase,” when the spark has dimmed but the care is still there.
What to Say When You Don’t Know How to Start Therapy
If you’ve ever found yourself staring at your therapist, unsure what to say, you’re not alone. Many people struggle to know how to start therapy sessions or what to talk about first — especially when every thought seems to vanish the moment the session begins.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples: How to Stop the Same Fights and Reconnect
EFT is an evidence-based, attachment-focused therapy that helps couples understand the patterns driving their conflict and reconnect through more vulnerable, safe, and responsive emotional conversations.
Premarital Counseling: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Helps Couples Prepare for Marriage
Marriage is a huge commitment—and an emotional milestone that brings with it both excitement and uncertainty. Premarital counseling gives couples the tools to navigate this transition with clarity, connection, and intention.
Different Together: How Therapy Can Support Interracial and Multicultural Couples
In today’s world, more couples than ever are building meaningful relationships across lines of race, culture, and identity. These relationships are often filled with richness, depth, and strength—but they can also come with challenges that others may not fully understand.
Neurodiverse Relationships: How Couples Therapy Can Help You Connect
Learn how therapy supports neurodiverse couples in building stronger communication, routines, and connection in their relationships.
How to Convince My Partner to Go to Couples Therapy (And What You're Really Asking)
It’s not a courtroom. It’s not a trap. It’s not a last-ditch fix. It’s a place where conflict becomes conversation, where silence becomes signal, where avoidance becomes insight. It’s a space to learn how to repair, not just retreat.
Be Your Own Couples Therapist: The 5 Relationship Books That Almost Count as Therapy
Explore 5 expert-recommended relationship books that can help improve communication, intimacy, and emotional connection—like couples therapy, but DIY.
So, your relationship could use... a little tune-up. Maybe you’ve been arguing about the same handful of things for five years. Maybe one of you thinks “quality time” means doom scrolling on two separate couches. Maybe you just want to feel like you're on the same team again, not opposing legal counsel.
Feeling Uncertain About Your Relationship? Discernment Counseling Can Help.
Feeling Uncertain About Your Relationship? Discernment Counseling Can Help.
Are you and your partner standing at a crossroads, unsure whether to stay together or part ways? Do you find yourselves asking, “Should we break up or give it one more try?”
Has one of you emotionally checked out, while the other is holding on?
If you’re in this space of uncertainty, Discernment Counseling might be the next step for you.
Navigating the Challenges of Gentle Parenting
“Gentle parenting,” a term first coined by Dr. William Sears, a renowned pediatrician, has become an increasingly popular parenting style in recent years. As a new generation of parents seek to do things differently than their parents did, many are turning to methods that are backed by research and have a more child-centered approach.
Attachment Theory: The Science Behind the Bond
As a parent, one of the most important things you’ll do is create a bond with your child. But have you ever wondered what makes a bond “secure” or how you can help ensure that your child develops a secure attachment?
Mastering the Art of Conflict
Most people don’t look forward to fighting with their partner. Conflict with your partner can be painful. However, if done effectively, it can also create positive change and help you and your partner learn more about each other. As a couples therapist, I consistently witness the power of increased understanding and compassion that comes from fighting.
Understanding and Managing Mom Guilt
Picture this: You are all ready for your first night out in over six months, but just as you get to the front door you start to feel an uneasiness in your stomach, a tightening in your chest, and a heavy heart. You start to wonder if your baby will miss you, if your partner will feed her correctly, if maybe you should just stay home…
Cue the mom guilt spiral.
Healing During the Holidays with Dialectal Thinking
While the holiday season may be regarded with warmth, twinkling lights, and holiday cookies for some, it can activate (and trigger) unpleasant or traumatic experiences for others. This is where dialectical thinking comes into play – the reality that seemingly competing perspectives can both be true and co-exist. For example, “Your parents did the best they knew how in raising you and it still wasn’t enough”.
So You’re Thinking of Trying Couples Therapy
The process of initiating couples therapy can be particularly daunting. Not only are you entrusting a total stranger to share your most intimate and difficult internal experiences with, but you’re doing it with your partner. Often, this is the person who matters the most to you, and right now, the relationship may feel rocky. Let’s take a second to honor this. Coming to couples therapy requires a real leap of faith that this therapist may be able to help you and your partner and bring you to solid ground. To assist with this leap, I’ll address a few of the biggest blocks couples face in beginning treatment.
Navigating Generational Conflict: How to maintain your parental boundaries during the holiday season
The holidays often mean spending more time than usual with extended family. This means that parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, great aunts, etc. may be spending more time with your children. This can be a great thing, as loving relationships with relatives are a good for a child’s social development, self-esteem, and even cognitive skills. Nonetheless, conflict can arise when a family member has different ideas than the parent about how to best raise children.
Before The Aisle: Building a Modern Marriage
As the “mental health generation” prepares to walk down the aisle, psychologically-minded couples are considering premarital counseling to start their unions on the right foot. Despite this growing interest, many couples wonder: what is premarital counseling, anyway?
Breaking Up With Your Therapist: What to Ask Yourself (and Them) Before Calling It Quits
Feeling like you want to break up with your therapist is scary and confusing territory, so much so that it often creates urges to ignore your feelings, lie about your reason for ending, or ghost your therapist altogether. First, a caveat* – if your therapist has crossed a clear ethical boundary, acted inappropriately, or made you feel unsafe, leave as soon and as abruptly as you want.
Reclaiming the Weekend: Setting Work Boundaries in the COVID-19 Era
It isn’t news to anybody that the COVID-19 pandemic has completely upended the ways that many of us are doing our jobs, with millions of people working from home for the first time ever. Before the pandemic, even the most dedicated workaholic had one key way to enforce the boundary between their work and home life: By leaving the office. Without a commute and physical separation from the office, many have felt the boundary between work and home dissolve, finding themselves overstressed, hunched over their computer at odd hours, and answering slacks and emails into the dead of night.
Healthy Assertiveness in a Global Pandemic
Managing boundaries is challenging in the best of circumstances, but in a pandemic the stakes are higher than ever. One the one hand, we are hungry for contact as we feel isolated and afraid. On the other hand, interacting with others holds real risk to physical safety and health. Right now, the human need for relationships is in direct conflict with the need for safety.
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