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January 2022

January 22, 2022

Do You Want to Improve Your Marriage? Try Active Listening and Validation

During a couples counseling session, Becca, 36, and David, 38, discuss their ongoing problem with...

November 2021

November 20, 2021

How Couples Can Effectively Communicate Their Emotions

Think about it: when you’re in a good mood, you might give your partner the...

October 2021

October 20, 2021

How to Avoid a Power Struggle with Your Partner

During a counseling session with Teresa, 46, and Jeff, 49, they described a negative pattern...

May 2021

May 19, 2021

Self-compassion Can Help Couples Communicate Effectively

Carolyn, 42, sits across from her husband, Henry, 45, in my office, as they discuss...

April 2021

April 22, 2021

6 Tips for Improving Communication and Creating Loving Intimacy

During our couples counseling sessions, Kyla and Kevin discuss their difficulties communicating their needs productively....

October 2020

October 24, 2020

5 Ways to Have a Loving Dialogue with Your Partner (And Survive the Pandemic)

It’s no surprise that the divorce rate in has spiked during the Coronavirus Pandemic. The...

August 2020

August 02, 2020

6 Positive Ways to Communicate What You Need to Your Partner

While it’s tempting to launch into expressing anger and to get into the attack mode...

June 2020

June 28, 2020

The Silent Suffering of Emotional Withholding

We’ve long understood the pain and perils of relationships characterized by physical and emotional abuse....

May 2020

May 16, 2020

4 Things to Consider When Expressing Your Needs to Your Partner

Many couples come to my office for counseling looking for advice about how to express...

March 2020

March 12, 2020

Should Couples Add Kindness to Their Toolkit When Fighting?

In an article for The Good Men Project, Sanaa Hyder, M.S.Ed., advocates that kindness is...

November 2019

November 09, 2019

How to Be More Assertive with Your Partner By Using “I” Statements

Before you can begin to build successful relationships, you must have healthy self-esteem – which means...

August 2019

August 22, 2019

How to Reverse the Demand-Withdraw Dynamic in Relationships

Many couples are stuck in an unfortunate vicious cycle where one partner become more distant...

April 2019

April 29, 2019

5 Tips to Repair After an Argument with Your Partner

Dear Terry, My wife and I have heated arguments in front of our kids at...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

How to Create Real Love By Adopting a Positive Mindset

Tina and Chris, in their early fifties, met through a close friend a year after...

January 2019

January 21, 2019

How Do I Break the Negative Cycle of Relating to My Partner?

Dear Terry, How can my husband and I break the negative ways we relate to...

October 2018

October 10, 2018

Social Media Can Stoke Relationship Problems and Jealousy

In an age when people connecting through social media is second nature, some new couples...

October 08, 2018

5 Key Reasons Vulnerability Leads to Intimacy

Many people complain to me that they aren’t getting their needs met in their relationship,...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

10 Questions to Ask Your Partner to Boost Intimacy

When it comes to relationships, it’s easier to focus on problems rather than to see...