Teach Your Children Well
Discipline for kids works best if it teaches self-control, responsibility, and respect instead of relying on fear or punishment. Children usually respond best when discipline is predictable, delivered with self-control and proportionate. Some generally accepted ideas are: Consistency… Read More
GET A CLUE!
He just does not get it. Dylan and his wife, Starla May, are living their lives, raising the kids, working, and mainly on auto-pilot. He’s doing fine, as far as he is concerned. He works hard, long hours… Read More
Success in Therapy
Whether you are receiving individual therapy, couples/marital therapy or family therapy, you are more likely to succeed if you prepare your mind for the experience and approach it positively. Clients receiving couples counseling from me will get the… Read More
The Family Boss
Years ago, my colleagues and I, while working for the same agency, attended a day-long professional retreat. The purpose was to identify problems in our practice and to build cohesiveness. At one point we were asked to reply… Read More
Problems, Problems
How do personal problems arise, how are they maintained and what does it take to solve them? In the helping professions theories abound regarding all three of these questions. In this article we look at how relationship problems… Read More
Who’s Using Whom?
“The world is made up of givers and takers. The takers may eat better. But the givers sleep better.” Have you ever felt that you were being used? Has your boss used you in order to advance his… Read More
Trust, Fear, Love
A distorted idea of love can lead people to make horribly bad decisions. In speaking to their counselors, clients present a wide variety of words and phrases to describe their problems. Among the endless stream of words, a… Read More
MY BOOK
Nineteen years of experience, including fourteen years as therapist and Program Director at a treatment center for teens, have have provided me with knowledge and understanding of relationship problems. Foremost among those problems are the ever-present difficulties in… Read More
No Time? Really?
People come for therapy with all kinds of problems. They’re depressed or anxious and feel unmotivated to change. They have low energy, poor self-esteem or they’re bitter about having been hurt. They know they ought to get regular… Read More
