THE BLOG
I snapped a picture a couple of days into a vacation I took with my family to the Florida Keys. As I sat on the back porch in between a day of fishing and the traditional post dinner card...
I have a quick quiz I’d like you to take. Open up your favorite social media platform and go through the first 20 posts from your “friends.” What percentage of posts...
I had a very challenging married couple come in to the counseling office last week who were both clearly emotionally disturbed. They seemed to share some negative personality characteristics...
I was 25 years old and just beginning to see patients as a psychologist in training. I’ll never forget the moment I watched the first couple I would ever see as a marital therapist drive up...
Several weeks ago, I settled into bed after a long day ready for a good night’s sleep. As I laid there drifting off into what I hoped was at least 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep, I...
I see it over and over again in the clinical office. A couple comes in for marital counseling and I watch as the wife desperately tries to get her husband to engage in the conversation....
I finished up the session with Connor, my 9 year old client, and walked out into the waiting room to meet with his mother. I updated her on how the treatment was going (he was struggling with...
We planned our first trip to Disney World as parents with great intention. Having grown up near Orlando I always felt an affinity for the most Magical Place on Earth and it was important that my...
Veterans and first responders are a special breed. They are driven to do extraordinary things in incredibly stressful situations all because they are passionate about doing what many among us are...
It’s Thanksgiving, which means we all have a chance to step back from the chaos of the daily grind and express gratitude for the many blessings of our life. The practice of gratitude has been...
It’s hard to find a more hopeful time of the year than the Christmas season. We are all just different in the four weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. People spend more time with...
Over the years, I’ve seen an incredibly diverse collection of issues and problems of living that my clients encounter daily. We live in a broken world and the amount of pain that people...
