Couples Therapy Lessons From Tennis Camp
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Recently I took a long weekend to go to The Tennis Congress with Pete. For a long time, I’d wanted to know how top-level tennis players think.
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How to Restore Momentum When Clients Evade Your Questions
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My recent series, Losing Control, Direction or Momentum in Couples Therapy, stimulated so many comments and notes of appreciation that I’ve been thinking even more about those
Building Schools and Lives in Kenya
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As you may know, over the past 5 years I’ve been involved in building schools in communities for traumatically displaced people. Working through the nonprofit organization World
Dr. Ellyn Bader and Other Experts on Differentiation at Couples Conference
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Day 2 was on Differentiation at Couples Conference 2016. In a panel discussion early in the day, I set the stage for understanding differentiation by explaining that
More on Spinning in Circles with Entrenched Couples
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A reader of my blog on Spinning in Circles with Entrenched Couples described a situation that’s a catch-22 of couples therapy: a partner who doesn’t want to
How to Stop Going in Circles with an Entrenched Couple
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Some partners just stubbornly refuse to be accountable for their own role in a mutual mess and you find yourself going in circles in therapy sessions. Perhaps
Emotion vs. Thinking in War and Marriage
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As the Presidential primary races heat up and the November elections approach, I find myself thinking more and more about the role of emotion vs thinking in
Confrontation Options: Financial Irresponsibility
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“Many of us believe that wrongs aren’t wrong if done by nice people like ourselves.” Author Unknown. At the risk of starting this blog sounding sexist, there
Couples Therapy Benefits From Interpersonal Neurobiology
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In my online training program, I often invite guest experts to teach an extra class for my members. Recently Dr. Dan Siegel joined us. He packed an
Clinical Example: Transcript of a Hostile Angry Couple
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In my last blog post, I gave a list of practical suggestions to support your work with hostile angry couples. To end my series on working with
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