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The Nuance Matters
Discover professional, nuanced content about psychology, therapy, and ethics. These articles are designed to deepen your self-knowledge and expand insight into the important relationships in your life.
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Online Family Therapy: How It Works and the Best Options
Discover how online family therapy works and the best options with helpful information from a Clinical Psychologist and Marriage & Family Therapist.
Long-Distance Relationship Counseling: Options and FAQs
Let’s explore how long-distance relationship counseling works. I'll also share helpful tips for finding the right therapist for you and your partner.
What Are The Goals For Individual Therapy?
From the beginning, through the middle, and until the end of individual therapy, at least one goal remains consistent: a solid therapeutic alliance.
What Are The Goals of Couples Therapy?
The goals of couples therapy are developed collaboratively, with the most direction coming from each of your needs, desires, and hopes for the relationship. In goal setting, I empower you, as individuals and as a couple, to recognize the strengths you already possess.
7 Reasons Why You Might Have a Hard Time Letting Go of a Past Relationship
Many of us are hard on ourselves when we think we’re struggling to let go. And that becomes more complicated because we often judge ourselves and our process.
The Out of Network Insurance Benefit
Many of us don’t realize that even if our psychotherapists are out of network (OON), our insurance plan may still offer a benefit.
Multiple Perspectives: Source of Disconnection or Opportunity for Intimacy?
Every couple, family, or relationship coming into my private practice is struggling with the same thing - different perspectives.
The Danger of Calling it “A Toxic Relationship”
If you have any form of social media, you have probably seen memes that describe, “toxic people” or “toxic relationships.” I cringe when I see those phrases.
What to Expect in Individual Therapy
Using a free online therapy platform, you and I meet for an inaugural, 50-minute session to examine what you want to shift in your life. This first meeting allows me to meet you exactly where you are, as you are.
What Are The Goals of Family Therapy?
In family therapy, the clients and therapist set goals together. The ongoing process of goal development incorporates significant input from everyone involved.
What to Expect at Family Therapy
The start of family therapy looks different for each family. Most often, it begins with concern about “one person” who seems to be struggling the most. This concern usually expands into dynamic engagement with several members of the family system.
What to Expect at Couples Therapy
Couples therapy can begin in a variety of ways. Most often, it starts with two people having different ideas about the “true nature” of the problem, but can quickly evolve into expanded perspectives of how both people can be right - at the same time.