Bring Joy to Your Relationship
Ooh, couples, what is it that really breaks our heart? A lack of joy. It doesn’t matter if we’re embroiled in anger and blame, or frozen...
How Are You Coping with Trump Trauma?
5:00am on November 9. Wake up heart pounding and check my phone. Shock. Disbelief. All I want to do is put my head under my pillow. I...
How to Make Decisions Without Distress
'Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do." --...
Fighting Again? Blame Your Brain
You and your partner get into a spectacular fight. And let us guess… it’s his fault. Or hers. Definitely not yours. It’s never really...
How We Learn to Trust Ourselves
In our practice we don’t work directly with children. But all of our clients, and all of us, were once children and our sense of self...
What Is Love?
What is Love? For Valentine’s Day we thought we’d turn to the experts for some words on love. At a conference last summer,...
How to Raise an Emotionally-Intelligent Child
Did you know that emotional intelligence is a better predictor of success in a child than IQ or academic intelligence? Dr. John Gottman...
The Real Reason Couples Fight
Psst, I’ll let you in on a therapist secret. When you walk into our office and complain that you and your partner are fighting about...
How to Recover from 'Relationship Trauma'
You can’t get over it. Your partner promises he won’t go out for drinks alone with that flirtatious colleague while he’s away on a...
Couples: How to Stay Connected
Ask yourself this -- when do you and your partner fight the most? Really think about it, or track your fights when they happen. I bet...