When Is Therapy Complete?
As an existential therapist, or one who mostly travels in the world of losses, the question often arises… so when is therapy over? When is someone better? Is that even the goal of good psychotherapy? It has been a staple of my practice to ask a new patient (I prefer [...]
Feelings
We live our lives thinking, behaving, and feeling. At some level, these three are so interrelated as to drive one another with great complexity. On another level, evolution teaches us that we are feeling beings. Over 3.5 billion years we have developed through the life saving strategy of moving away [...]
Addiction and Therapy
So, you have an addiction. Alcohol, drugs, coffee, porn, pasta, cake, gambling, shopping, shoplifting, chocolate, running, novels, news, your phone, facebook, twitter, and on and on. Starting to sound a little like everyone is on this list somewhere? Almost everyone is on the list. Almost everyone has a behavior [...]