Relationship Tips
How to Help Your Partner with Depression
It can be challenging to maintain relationships and make new connections at the best of times. If you're suffering from depression, this can feel like an uphill battle! Relationships and depression are often linked. In some cases, relationships can trigger...
How Does Shame Affect a Relationship?
“Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging.” – Brené Brown I sit in my chair facing Marcy and Lou*, the couple I’ve been seeing for a few months. They came for counseling after Lou...
6 Resources for Your Sex Life
Welcome to the second post in our series, Therapist Resource Roundup. Each quarter, we share a list of resources focused on a different theme our therapists often work through with clients. Every roundup will feature books, articles, videos, and podcasts that our...
You and Me: Dry, Drinking, or Something In Between?
After spending the last two and a half years in a pandemic, most of us have created new norms for our relationships, families, and lifestyles. When the pandemic began, many people changed their drinking habits. Sometimes this was for the better and sometimes for the...
Betrayal Trauma? Try the 4 Circle Plan
"The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies, it comes from those you trust the most." - Author unknown There's no doubt that the ones we love can hurt us the most. And when a betrayal is disclosed or unveiled, the impacted partner can...
How to Talk to Your Partner About Their Drinking Habits
Alcohol is a touchy subject at the best of times, so it’s natural to feel anxious if you think your partner is drinking too much. Perhaps you’ve noticed they recently started drinking more or realized they always spend their weekends close to a bottle of wine. Habits...
Getting Married? Ask Your Fiancé These Questions
Are you recently engaged or planning on getting married? Or, is your relationship getting serious, and you're starting to talk about getting married? Before you and your partner begin planning the venue, the cake, and the ceremony, it's critical to spend some time...
4 Steps to Get Your Love Language Heard
Couples often enter the therapy room saying, "we just aren't speaking the same language!" Couples who say this phrase often feel their relationship needs are not being met. Or perhaps one doesn't don't feel cared for or understood by their partner. One common reason...
What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)?
You may have encountered EFT or Emotionally Focused Therapy if you have researched therapy types. This well-known approach is based on John Bowlby's attachment research from more than 50 years ago. Bowlby found that humans and higher primate animals appeared to have...
Grief 101: 3 Common Types and 5 Stages of Grief
You take the time and plan for a myriad of life events. Perhaps you've outlined contingency plans. You may have considered a variety of outcomes. And yet even with this planning, we do not plan for loss itself. All sorts of loss can bring up grief. You could grieve...