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psychotherapy & spirituality

I met Elizabeth Dickson in the mid-1990’s and her impact on my life and career has been beyond measurable. The

Irvin Yalom, master therapist

How pleasantly surprised I was recently to see Irvin Yalom's article in the New York Times' Sunday Review section. Reading

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