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To all relationships struggling in this pandemic:
It’s ok not to be ok. Lately, meaning the last year since the pandemic started, I’ve had a serious influx of couples looking for therapy. The pandemic has created a sort of alternate reality in which relationships — couples or families — continued to grow on their...
Sex, Intimacy, & Therapy
Sex & intimacy. You would think that couples know that most likely, when coming into therapy, I will be asking them about their sex life. It's always a surprise to see most couples look so taken back when I open up this conversation. Guess what? If you are coming...
Isolation is making us re-discover our greatest strength: that connection with others is necessary for our survival.
It’s the beginning of week five of being at home and practicing social distancing. Right before schools were supposed to start again after the March holidays (in Hamburg, Germany at least), we got the news that for the next month we will be staying home, working from...
Emotional pain leaves no bruises…but it hurts.
How do you take care of those bruises? You can’t touch them, you can’t see them, you can’t comfort them. If you can’t see their tangibility and existence, how can others? How can the one standing across from you see the intensity with which you hurt? How can they know...
When you seek out a therapist, do you usually ask what their life experience has been?
I know that I’ve rarely been asked that. Usually, if anything, potential clients ask me about my credentials and areas of expertise (which you can find on my website). Transparency about the therapy process is absolutely important for both client and therapist to...
Relationships and Expectations
Expectations are beliefs that something should happen. They can be small, or they can be intricate. The problem is that we rarely bring these expectations forth, and we rarely share them with each other…
La depresión posparto – más allá de los ‘baby blues’
Tu bebé por fin está en tus brazos, dormido plácidamente después de comer, con una leve sonrisa en su rostro que irradia paz y tranquilidad, y tu que no dejas de verlo, de observar cada detalle, de saborear su olor a recién nacido, de acariciar sus pequeños y...