Couples Therapy Method: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) consists of changing our thought patterns to those that create more positive outcomes in our lives. Because we have a tendency to believe the “self-talk” that we tell ourselves in our minds, what we repeat mentally to ourselves has a tremendous effect on what manifests in our lives. CBT leverages this phenomenon to affect the way we relate to the world by changing the way we think and feel about it. 

Couples Therapy: Managing Expectations in a Relationship

Couples Therapy: Managing Expectations in a Relationship

Often long before we begin a romantic relationship, we form ideas and expectations about what love is.  These ideas about love not only define the way we relate to others in a relationship, they also in many ways dictate to us how we expect to be loved by the other person. In short, the way we were taught about love in our youth has a massive influence on how we both express love in a romantic relationship and how we expect love to be expressed back to us.

Managing Anxiety with Psychotherapy

Psychotherapists can provide individuals, groups or family members who are managing anxiety with the tools they need to succeed.

One area where psychotherapists can provide relief is in the management of anxiety.  Anxiety is a condition in which the body and mind are consumed with worry.  Anxiety can be normal in stressful situations such as public speaking or taking a test. However, anxiety is only an indicator of underlying disease when feelings become excessive,

Florida Premarital Course FAQs

What is the Florida Premarital Course?

The Florida Premarital Course Statute outlines the standards a teachable class must meet to be considered valid for engaged couples to learn the fundamental social skills needed for a long-term relationship. The couples who complete this special course have a better foundation for their marriage, receive a $25.00 reduction in the marriage license fee and have the standard three-day waiting period waived.

Mindfulness Meditation

Meditation takes many forms, one of the most common meditation techniques is called mindfulness meditation. This practice can be used as a daily routine and be one of very effective and simple ways to cope with any unexpected stressful experience or just release the weight of worries of family life, work or study environments.

Millennia of Tradition

Mindfulness is perhaps one of the most commonly used meditation practices in the contemporary world.

Factors Associated with Burnout

Mental Health Awareness Month is an opportunity to review all factors and conditions that affect our wellbeing. Whether these conditions exist at home or in the workplace, they can lead anyone to experience the mental and emotional fatigue we call burnout.

3 Ways We’ve Come Along Way in Mental Health Awareness

It’s Mental Health Awareness Month and there is a lot for us to celebrate.  We’ve come a long way since the days of routine confinement and ostracization of mental health patients. Today, while there is much room for improvement there are many areas where we have made light-years of progress in a very short time.

Here are some of the areas where massive steps forward have been made: 

Improving Your Relationship with Self-Awareness

Excerpt from the audio file

“Our first module is self-awareness. It is designed to be the first module because the idea of knowing oneself is the key to happiness is one of the most important keys to happiness. It helps you really know what’s going on. And when you come into the relationship, you bring that awareness to the relationship. A happy relationship is defined by both partners being committed to the self.

Flexibility in Times of Crisis: Facing Loss

The pandemic has caused a major impact in our world and in our lives, causing many of us to to struggle with the specter of facing loss.   This article is an excerpt from a soon-to-be-published book that I have written, Flexibility in Times of Crisis. It is meant to provide helpful strategies in coping with the different scenarios and challenges that we face through these changes.   The stories are endless and rich in heroism,

Managing Caregiver Fatigue

Caregiving can be part of our lives when our parents/family faces a physical and /or mental decline

Finding joy in caring for our loved ones can make the difference between caregiver fatigue/burnout and seeing a deeper purpose when you are a caregiver for a declining older adult.

Highlights to help you be a joyful caregiver:

Accept the person as is. Remember that this is a whole person with a declining mind and/or body but there are always remnants of the person in there.