A client and I have been working together for a couple of months now. He’s been going through an acute stress reaction triggered by a distressing event in his life. By the time he sought my help, he had been … Read more
8 Ways to Cope with Parental Alienation
Being rejected by your son or daughter is a painful feeling. Although parents know that separation and divorce are not easy, most would never dream of their children disappearing from their life forever, seeming like a monster in response. Often, … Read more
Object Constancy in Therapy
This client I’ve been working with for about a year now, decided to move to a new country two months ago. We continued working together and she recently came into the session with the realization that she doesn’t miss anyone … Read more
Should I Start Family or Individual Therapy?
Deciding whether you should start family or individual therapy can be a big decision and every case is different. As the names imply, individual therapy concentrates on a person’s personal struggles, whereas family therapy looks outside the individual and adopts … Read more
I’ve Started Therapy but it’s No Use. Why?
People frequently ask if the therapy they attend to is being effective in the first place. The issue with therapy is that it is not like taking medication, where you take a drug that targets your symptoms and hope that … Read more
Working with Parental Alienation
Dr. Vincent Marmara who is a Statistician and Researcher recently carried out a study where 600 people were questioned about the meaning of Parental Alienation. The results showed that 80% didn’t know what the term parental alienation is. In fact, … Read more
Working with cultural differences in family therapy
Cultural differences provide novelty, excitement, curiosity and the possibility for personal growth and enrichment as human beings learn more about a perspective that is different from what they know. Difference also provides challenges as the possibility to misunderstand when you … Read more
An introduction to Gestalt therapy – part II
…How therapy works
Awareness and cognitive insight alone are necessary, but not sufficient. It is believed that it is necessary for the client to feel what he is aware of – to relive, express or do something that will … Read more
Breath in Therapy
If you’ve noticed your therapist asking about your breath, there’s a good reason for this. Oftentimes I ask my clients: “How are you breathing?”, “How’s your breathing?”, “Are you breathing?”, etc.
At the beginning of our therapy process, they usually … Read more
Will therapy help me get my wife back?
We used to love each other. Then we started drifting apart. Our sex life is inexistent. When we fight, the things we say to each other leave a wound that keeps festering. Sometimes I think she has someone else. We … Read more