Relationships
What Does Real Contact Mean?
Real contact is not only about shared interests or spending time together. It begins with genuine curiosity about another person's inner world.
Blog
Reflections on Therapy and Relationships
Thoughts on psychotherapy, relationships, emotions, and the questions people bring to therapy.
Relationships
Why Do We Keep Repeating the Same Relationship Patterns?
Familiar dynamics have a way of returning, even when we promise ourselves things will be different this time.
Anxiety
Why Is Uncertainty So Difficult to Tolerate?
Not knowing how something will turn out can feel harder to bear than bad news itself.
Therapy
What Happens Between Two People During Therapy?
Much of the work in therapy takes place in what happens between client and therapist, in the present moment.
Self-esteem
Why Is It So Hard to Ask for Help?
For many people, asking is bound up with shame, independence, and old lessons about what is allowed.
Relationships
When Curiosity Disappears, Connection Begins to Fade
Closeness rarely ends with an argument. More often it thins out quietly, when we stop wondering about each other.