Relationships play a part in our everyday reality. We have a relationship with our boss, colleagues, parents, friends, siblings and many more. Romantic relationships can often be a more difficult relationship to maintain because they are a mix of past experience and current expectations. They are a symbol of sacrifice…

As a clinician, I am always thankful and gratuitous to all the clients that allow me to walk alongside them through their therapeutic journey. The end result makes my job so fulfilling. Sometimes, the progress is so intense and profound that it teaches me something new about myself and perhaps…

What Can Happen As a parent, it can be so hard to find the right balance between the different needs of your children. When one child has significant struggles with mental health, or a medical condition, we can find our attention going to them more than the other(s) as we…

Addiction is the dark cloud that exists in the lives of many families and many individuals. According to the “National Survey on Drugs and Health: 2019,” about 19.3 million Americans had a substance use disorder and of those 19.3 million 39% accounts for individuals ages 18 and 25. The types…

Family is the mold that shapes the way we feel and perceive the world. Family affects how we react to conflict and how we cope with the hardships that come our way. As a clinician, I often find that the client’s I see have had the misfortune of being raised…

Emotional abuse involves nonphysical behavior that belittles another person. Emotional abuse includes insults, verbal put downs, verbal threats or making the victim feel threatened, inferior, ashamed or degraded. In many cases, women are most likely depicted as the ones being emotionally abused. However, the prevalence rates were high in a…

Infidelity is the act of physically or emotionally betraying the partnership between two people. Infidelity has become more complex and more complicated to identify with the use of technology and social media apps. Infidelity can be split into seven types which include: physical infidelity, emotional infidelity, cyber infidelity, object infidelity,…

The new year is here and you're excited about the change you have decided to make to your overall health!  It’s important to start somewhere and it’s important to feel motivated about improving your quality of life.Unfortunately, the new year resolution notion is done in an unrealistic way and when…

I’m sure I can speak for most people when I say, an argument is probably the most undesirable way to communicate. It’s a giant word battle of who is the loudest partner in the room and who can get the last word. Arguments hardly ever end well and are the…

Infidelity is the act of physically or emotionally betraying the partnership between two people. Infidelity has become more complex and more complicated to identify with the use of technology and social media apps. Infidelity can be split into seven types which include: physical infidelity, emotional infidelity, cyber infidelity, object infidelity,…