Parenting While Broken: How Our Self-Treatment Can Influence Our Children

The main misconception of perfectionism is that it only stems from emotional and/or physical abuse and/or neglect. Sometimes, you can … More

Reconceptualizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: How Changing the Way We View Distorted Thinking Can Help Us Heal (Revised)

Many clients, especially the heterosexual males, conceive of therapy as a training ground, as a means of discipline and mastery. … More

We’ve placed ourselves in a significant cultural moment. Over the past few weeks, in various states, people have been marching … More

Most of my sessions this past week revolved around the recent Black Lives Matter protests, focusing on my clients’ desires … More

Children see the world through a black and white lens, through which they perceive duality within the world, wherein good … More

I had a session over the weekend with a client whose brother was diagnosed with leukemia. In it, she told … More

The question on my mind lately is: Why Do I have to Be Anyone? If life is this temporary thing, … More

When we seek out success, we sometimes search for purity. The worst thing that a high achiever can hear is, … More

Daniel Kahneman, the notable psychologist, warned that if we put pressure on another to do what we want them to, … More

If maturity is anything, it’s a mastery of one’s emotions. The other day, someone told me a story about how … More