The Best Way to Change Your Partner

What is the best way to change your partner? Why do I ask this question?  Well, after we have been in a relationship for a while, we seem to start wishing that our partners were different in one way or another.  After that great time at the beginning of a relationship...

To Love Another and To Love Oneself

For Valentine’s Day, it is time to talk of love.  What does it mean to love another and how can we better love ourselves? I have heard that love is a decision, that it is a commitment, and it has been called many other things.  But I think love involves a way of...

When a Loved One Dies

Recently, someone I have known for a long time died.  I draw on this experience as well as my knowledge as a therapist to address any similar occasion you may have had. When a loved one dies, many thoughts and feelings arise.  Grief, disbelief, loneliness, regrets,...