Is your teenager sitting in their room each night? Has your child become disrespectful, unmotivated at school, even involved with alcohol or drugs? Is your spouse distant? Is the spark gone? Is your family disintegrating in front of you? Each family has its own mini-culture. Whether we want to or not, we pass our dysfunction...
Does Couples Therapy Work?
Couples therapy works only if your therapist can “manage marital combat, mix it up with the client, and be a ninja.” Couples therapy is filled with difficult problems such as who is the client and what is the goal. One spouse can think the therapist is a genius while the other spouse thinks the therapist...
What do people fear?
What do people fear? Some people fear success, some fear failure, some fear change, and some fear fear itself. “Lack of control” is a key component of this matrix of fear. Fear that stems from lack of control is one of most prevalent motivations that causes people to learn defensive coping strategies that are subconsciously…
Eating Disorders
There is a 10 percent mortality rate among those diagnosed with eating disorders. Society contributes to this disorder. The message we send about the health risks of overeating and obesity could actually encourage young people to begin the slide down the slope to the other end of the spectrum to anorexia nervosa, bulimia and binge...
Teen Suicide
You read about it in the news and see the reports on TV. CNN reported on April 10 that a 17 year old Canadian high school student was taken off life support on Sunday, three days after she tried to hang herself. Adolescence is a period of intense physical and emotional change in addition to...