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relationships require emotional creativity

Emotional creativity involves relating to your own negative emotional reactions as raw material with which to build and create. Once

helping men be more needy

There's a particular challenge to discussing emotional needs in therapy with men because our social conditioning so often idealizes being

codependency & personal power

Far too many people have learned to automatically and habitually give away their personal power. Without realizing what they’re doing,

negative emotions: toxic or healthy?

Experiencing negative emotions is an unavoidable dimension of human life: fear, anger, jealousy/envy, anxiety, depression, insecurity, hopelessness, inadequacy, etc. We

a bias toward action

Therapists are known to empathize. More and more, however, we need to mobilize. The passive, quiet, detached therapist is not

anger management & the holidays

Shortly after the holidays there is an uptick in people seeking therapy in NYC for anger management. It’s as if