Couples seek relationship counseling for numerous reasons. No matter what issues they present to...
Healthy Relationships
10 Characteristics of Successful Relationships
People seeking couples counseling seek change to a relationship dynamic that isn’t working in some...
Combat Loneliness by Learning to Connect
We humans have an innate, deep need for connection with each other. It can feel great when we...
When a Husband’s Desire for His Wife To Be Happy Gets Tricky
Richard Nicastro, PhD, through the eyes of “Nina,” explores what it can look like when protective love turns into hopeless frustration. — If you’re a woman in a committed relationship, I’d like...
Be Humble. Don’t Despair.
These are unprecedented times and we as a nation are being pulled tightly. Tensions is exceedingly high as we wait for word on who will be the U.S. President. For months I’ve witnessed and engaged...
Now is the Time to Strengthen Your Marriage, Here are 14 Ways
This is a very hard time; our emotional health and physical well-being are being challenged in pandemic life. We are trying to figure out how to be safe, care for our children and for many, assure...
How Will You Be Different?
As the weeks cascade into months of avoidance of our human kind to save lives, new norms are settling in. How strange to think that not so long ago seeing people with their faces covered by masks...
Post-Breakup: How to Know You’re Ready for Your Next Relationship
Ouch. You suffered a painful breakup and have been mourning the loss of what you thought would be and the heartfelt crush of an ego bruise. Like many others who experience this, it sucks. There’s...
5 Steps to Create Positive Change in Your Relationship
You love your partner. And sometimes you make mistakes that hurt your partner. Some of those mistakes might be from patterns similar to what was modeled to you in your family of origin and the...
Rock Solid Marriage
If you’re married, you’ve probably figured out that marriage isn’t always easy. And it’s not supposed to be. Like anything, time comes with changes; shifts within the individual, relationship...
Relational Intelligence
Linda Graham, MFT and author of Resilience and Bouncing Back, looks at the two pillars of healthy social connections and provides exercises in how to cultivate them. I regularly experience the...
The Single Biggest Happiness Predictor in Relationships
This recent study demonstrates what may be intuitive for some but what’s even more helpful is the Inc.com author’s segue into “what to do about it” if you don’t have this attribute in your current...