Let’s start with the basics. Do you want a deep-rooted positive bond with your partner? Do you take responsibility for your role in the relationship problem you’re having? Do you believe you know your partner’s real intentions and wishes? Do your emotional reactions interfere with…
Ideally, message receivers have the resilience and self-confidence to listen to even the most outrageous message with respect and calm. However, when a message receiver feels attacked, criticized or threatened by the sender’s message, he or she is likely to retaliate, leave or become mute.…
“Better communication” is the most common goal couples tell me they hope to achieve from couple counseling. What I think they really mean is more “effective” communication to reduce relationship conflict, anger and hurt feelings. Fortunately, as a trained actress, psychologist and mediator, I know…
The essential outcome of effective couple and marriage counseling can be defined in one word: learning. Actually, that’s what all counseling is ultimately about – learning new and modified ways of thinking, feeling and behaving in order to achieve goals. Sometimes one member of a…
Therapeutic Acting for Couples (TA-C) expands on the behavioral aspect of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT), a research-based, tried and true method of dealing with many mental health issues. TA integrates my training and experience as a mental health professional and actress with a doctorate in psychology and…
As you might imagine, each distressed couple has its own unique issues. Each has its own way habitual way of dealing with those issues. Often, each person struggles – unsuccessfully – to be heard. And, of course, each couple is more or less skilled at…
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