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How Relational Trauma Can Affect the Trust-Building Process
Therapists used to reserve the term “trauma” to describe events like war, rape, and life-threatening experiences. We now recognize that people can have similar responses to relational ... Read More
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Help! My Partner Doesn’t Like to Be Touched
Dear GoodTherapy.org, Have you ever dealt with couples where one partner had issues with being touched? That’s the situation I am in now. I have been seeing a guy for about eight ... Read More
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Common Questions Asked by People Healing from Narcissistic Abuse
I work daily with people who have experienced narcissistic abuse. Some grew up in a household with a narcissistic parent. Others are married to someone with narcissism. Still others may ... Read More
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‘Reviving Ophelia’ and Supporting Our Teens: A GoodTherapy.org Review
In the bestselling book Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, Dr. Mary Pipher discusses the negative impact adolescence can have on young women. She observes that before ... Read More
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Workplace Grief and Loss: Coping with the Death of a Coworker
Most of us work for most of our lives. The relationships we develop through our work take up a lot of our time and emotional resources. Even though these are almost universal truths, we ... Read More
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7 Ways to Succeed at Couples Therapy
Are you feeling hopeless about your relationship? Has your marriage devolved into a manipulative game of tit for tat? Or perhaps you’ve both withdrawn and haven’t had a meaningful exchange ... Read More
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3 Ways to Build Connection in First Responder Relationships
First responders are our heroes. They are our police, firefighters, and emergency medical service providers. They are the first to respond to people in need, the first to go into places ... Read More
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7 Things to Consider Before Opening Your Relationship
People choose to open their relationships for many reasons, and there are many ways to do it. From swinging to polyamory and everything in between, each couple venturing outside the bounds ... Read More
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How Can I Help My Adult Child with Depression?
Dear GoodTherapy.org, My adult daughter is incredibly gifted (she tested around 130 IQ), but she has pretty serious depression. The sleeps-all-day, forgets-to-eat kind. It took her an extra ... Read More
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Quieting Inner Critics: Recognize Them, Reject Them, Affirm Yourself
Those of us who experienced abuse or neglect in childhood often struggle with inner voices that are self-critical and self-rejecting. These inner critics, voices of guilt, shame, self-abuse ... Read More
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What Do We Risk When We Are Not Authentic?
I always find it interesting, from both an ethical and clinical standpoint, that for many people, truth has degrees. There appears to be a spectrum of truth that people see. There is a ... Read More
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Can People Really Change? Epigenetics, Neuroplasticity, and CBT
Many of us learned in high school biology class that genetic traits are passed down to us from our parents. We were taught that we have brown, blue, or green eyes because a parent did, ... Read More