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Covid-19 has brought us a new way of being. In some ways, many of us have established a certain level of comfort, even complacency. over the months in quarantine to slow the curve of the Novel Coronavirus. We have adapted to a new level of [...]
In online counseling sessions, I haven't seen nor heard any toilets. Not yet. But I have seen other things. In psychotherapy, clients take us into their homes. When they show up they, in a sense, inviting us in their emotional homes. Some more than others. [...]
“My psychoanalyst told me he’s going to be on telehealth effective immediately given the shelter-in-place mandate. There’s no warning and he says the analytic frame is not as effective when using the phone. He says video is a more effective medium since we can at [...]
I sent out a request for a psychotherapist in the White Plains/Scarsdale zip codes for a spouse of a woman with whom I worked face-to-face in my office in Boca Raton, Florida. The first response delivered almost immediately, came from Samantha who offered up video [...]
That there is a pandemic, that has come and will go, has invaded the consciousness of each one of us. And given that, there is a bigger meaning to hold, or as I always say, a method to the madness. An order to the chaos. [...]
A second year of intensive group therapy. One of the regrets, albeit not the grandest but still worth mentioning, is that I had not known about nor attended the two-day institute at the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) prior time 21019. Intensive it was as [...]
Online Therapy. Will it work? Jennifer, a 32-year-old former ivy-league graduate currently commencing on a revived ‘career’ as a professional golfer, reported her love for her husband in every way other than his lack of initiation in the bedroom. “he’s a great father, a great [...]
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy emanates from the teachings of the East but adds more. Check out the 26 principles of Buddhist Psychology in Jack Kornfield's 2008 book, The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal teachings of Buddhist Psychology and learn how Eastern principles can help us both manage and change our distressing thoughts and beliefs.
I just finished Adam Grant’s Ted Talk on The Power of Powerless Communication in which, amongst other points, he cited two that emerged as commanding. He said that the use of tentative language engages trust and brings people towards you instead of away. He also said [...]
“The quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives,” says Esther Perel, relationship psychotherapist, author, podcaster and teacher. Said succinctly, Perel highlights the interpersonal and connective nature of the human experience. Research has frequently documented that for those who experience meaningful relationships, there [...]