Effectively Communicating with Your Spouse

An Interview with Therapist Diane DuBois LMFT By: Jaleh Are you having a difficult time communicating with your spouse? If so you’re not alone. Many married couples have a difficult time getting along because of poor communication skills. To help understand common communication mistakes married couples...

Cherishing Behavior and How to Keep It

Cherishing Behaviors For Couples: Some Suggestions When you are reading this, you will recall some of the pleasing and delightful behaviors that drew you to each other during courtship, or which were practiced during some happy times or even in crisis times. Select from this list, or one of your own, two or...

How to Deal With an Angry Spouse

It is important to differentiate the spouse whose anger is a healthy response to various partner insufficiencies, such as lack of attunement, inadequate empathy, neglect, poor partner functioning -in short anger as a protest to loss of love and safety – and anger which is more characterological, i.e.,...

Divorce Strategies: Co-Parenting for Back-to-School

Back-to-school issues co-parents should discuss and agree on parameters for include: -Enrollment in school-related and extracurricular activities, including payment of fees and transportation. A schedule which allows some degree of flexibility in case of work problems or other minor emergencies is helpful,...

Understanding the Cycle

A relationship is a dance – and the rhythms and habitual steps of the dance have their own momentum – can take over. In EFT we look at the dance you are caught in and how it leaves you both hurting and frustrated. We help you step out of your negative dance and create a new dance that is safer,...