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Jul 25, 20243 min read
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, 20244 min read
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, 20244 min read
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, 20244 min read
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, 20244 min read
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, 20244 min read
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, 20244 min read
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, 20244 min read
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, 20245 min read
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, 20243 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20234 min read
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...

Aug 8, 20235 min read
How to Cope With Empty Nest Syndrome
We’ve all heard the term “empty nesters;” when parents feel grief or an immense amount of sorrow and sadness when their kid(s) move out...

May 17, 20235 min read
Navigating Communication, Conflict, and Compromising in a Relationship
Conflicts, arguments, disagreements, those are all natural and most of the time inevitable when being in a relationship. While they are...


May 12, 20234 min read
I’m Anxious About My First Session with My Therapist
Starting therapy can be incredibly nerve-racking, whether you’ve been in therapy before or not. You are talking to someone who is, at...

Mar 4, 20233 min read
Get To Know Your Therapist: Emily Blair
EMILY BLAIR, ALMFT What’s something you would say to a potential client who’s on the fence about beginning therapy? Beginning therapy is...

Feb 12, 20233 min read
What Family Therapy Looks Like
Whether you got referred to start family therapy by another provider or you decided on your own that this is something you and your...

Dec 27, 20224 min read
Easy Anxiety Techniques to Use at Home
Anxiety can be debilitating at times, and sometimes our body reacts in ways that our mind can’t make sense of and our mind goes in...
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