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Joan Halifax, the director of Project on Being With Dying, has said, “Compassion is comprised of that capacity to see with clearly into the nature of suffering. It is that ability…

Self-care during the holiday season.  Seems like an oxymoron right?  Let me run you through a typical day, mid-December. It’s 5:15AM, the alarm goes off and I have been relieved of my…

You’ve heard it before, “It takes a village!” But what if you don’t have that village and what if your village doesn’t understand?  Sometimes the joy of bringing home your…

Seems like everyone in my house is coming down with something. The flu, colds, headaches, a case of the Mondays. Winter is notorious for contagions, and as we are continually…

Break out the boots, jackets, and scarves, because we’ve officially hit fall here in the midwest. There’s a very familiar chill in the air, and our days are getting noticeably…

Every day there are hundreds of thoughts that go through our minds that influence the way we think and feel. These automatic, and sometimes subconscious, thoughts influence our mood, actions,…

When you start the search for a therapist you are entering into a world of acronyms. LPCC, LMFT, LICSW, CBT, DBT, EMDR. All these letters following people’s names and areas…

I recently had the privilege of working with a husband and wife to complete their estate plan. The couple was young, with a daughter who had just turned two before…

How the three defense mechanisms; dissociation, denial and armoring, relate to sexual satisfaction. In this blog post, three common defenses, which according to sex therapist and researcher Gina Ogden (2008),…

Clients often come in my office saying they feel like they’re mind is going a million miles per hour, like they have so much on their plate that they don’t…