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How familiar does this sound? A couple has a fight and while one of them is insistent on solving the problem immediately, the other is insistent on leaving. …so you have one person exiting the room while the other relentlessly chases them down. Even if this has never happened to you, I'm...

As I’ve said before, I hate gender stereotyping but, once again, I’d be foolish to not acknowledge the trends respectively belonging to the men and women who come to my office.  Sidebar: What’s written here is not the truth for all couples and the preferences listed can...

Ok, so you finally decide to seek therapy despite your reservations. You maintain that you are willing to do whatever it takes to finally feel better.    You’ve worked hard to keep and open-mind as you make your way to your appointment.  You meet your therapist and they...

I was at a party a little while ago when a childhood friend told me how much she hated therapy.  She confided that everything she brought up in therapy ended up being about her parents.  “I was so annoyed that everything I said was brought back to my family,” is what she...

Some people have a hard time believing that our childhoods affect our thoughts and behaviours as adults.  Some of my clients casually say, “Oh…my childhood was fine…I don’t think there is anything to talk about in that regard…it was pretty...