Dealing with Infidelity
How to navigate the aftermath of infidelity and steps towards healing and rebuilding trust. Infidelity is not an easy or fun topic to...
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- Aug 30
- 5 min
Understanding Love Languages:
An overview of the 5 love languages and how understanding them can help enhance relationships. Most people have heard of or have a brief...
- Aug 27
- 5 min
Blended Families: Challenges and Solutions
Blended families are family units just like any other families, but ones that come with a few more challenges. Blended families are...
- Aug 17
- 6 min
Balancing Work and Family Life
It can be incredibly challenging to find a balance between work and family life. Whether you have young children, are a dual-career...
- Aug 13
- 5 min
Create Shared Meaning Together: Rituals of Connection
You did it! You and your partner made it through the steps of the Sound Relationship House, all the way to the top. When we get to the...
- Aug 6
- 3 min
Making Life Dreams Come True
Congratulations! If you’re reading this, you’ve made it to the 6th floor of the Sound Relationship House. While we are not at the very...
- Jul 25
- 3 min
Coping with Life Transitions: A Therapist’s Perspective
Families go through numerous life transitions, each bringing its own unique set of challenges and opportunities for growth. Families deal...
- Jul 11
- 4 min
Laughing Together: The Therapeutic Power of Humor in Relationships
Humor is an important factor in all aspects of life. It is something that can make someone’s mood instantly better, it’s something that...
- Jun 18
- 4 min
Managing Conflict: Importance of Individual Self-Soothing
Now that we’ve tried to work on accepting one another’s influence within the relationship and helped manage conflict by identifying and...
- Jun 13
- 4 min
Managing Conflict: Solvable vs. Perpetual
Continuing on the 5th floor of Gottman’s Sound Relationship House, we are still focusing on managing conflict. A major part of that is...
- Jun 11
- 4 min
Accepting Your Partner’s Influence
We are moving onto the 5th floor of the Sound Relationship House: Managing Conflict, which actually is composed of multiple parts. In...
- Apr 20
- 4 min
Are You Worrying About Things Outside of Your Control?
The answer to the question in the title has probably been yes at some point in your life. It could be said that most people probably at...
- Apr 4
- 4 min
Increasing Intimacy Within Your Relationship
Intimacy is important in any relationship; it’s also something that requires people to be vulnerable with one another and “to allow...
- Mar 21
- 4 min
The Positive Perspective
If you’ve been following along in this series of blogs focusing on the Sound Relationship House founded by Drs. John and Julie Gottman,...
- Jan 26
- 5 min
Couples’ Vision Boarding: Designing a Shared Future
Whether you are in a new relationship or have been together for years, it is crucial to talk about your future. The future involves both...
- Jan 21
- 3 min
The Power of Turning Towards
Turning Towards is the third level in the Gottman’s Sound Relationship House, after focusing on building love maps and showing and...
- Nov 14, 2023
- 3 min
Cut Yourself Some Slack
It’s right in the title: cut yourself some slack. As humans, and for the most part, we tend to be a lot harder on ourselves than we are...
- Nov 9, 2023
- 3 min
Sharing Fondness and Admiration Within Your Relationship
There’s a stage in almost every relationship, usually at the beginning, where there’s an abundance of infatuation, love, a sort of...
- Sep 22, 2023
- 4 min
Building Stronger Connections and Foundations for your Relationship Through Love Maps
In any new relationship, you start off by getting to know one another. Asking questions to each other, finding out the other’s likes and...
- Sep 8, 2023
- 4 min
Thoughts & Strategies I Use When Working with Couples
People come to therapy for all different types of reasons, and while couples may come to therapy with specific goals in mind, there...
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