by Carolyn | Jun 29, 2012 | Couples Therapy, Family Therapy, Marriage Counseling
Raising children in a home where conflict and fighting is the norm is very detrimental. Although the research shows divorce as the option most Americans choose, there IS another way. What is better for kids growing up is for the parents to figure out how to stop...
by Carolyn | Jun 16, 2012 | Expressing Love, Expressions of Love, Family Therapy, Family Time, Learning to Communicate, Relationships
How quickly the school year has come and gone. It’s been eight months (although it seems like just yesterday) that my husband and I helped our youngest twins pack their bags to begin their first year of college. It’s now summer which means – they’re back! With...
by Carolyn | May 9, 2012 | Bullying, Conflict Resolution, Family Therapy
Recently I was asked to discuss the problem of bullying for a local morning TV news segment. I wondered just how helpful I would be because my work is primarily with adults, not adolescents. Then it dawned on me that many of the emotionally abusive patterns that...
by Carolyn | May 6, 2012 | Emotionally Focused Therapy, Family Therapy
Two years ago in May we got the life-altering phone call from a relative that his daughter, who just months earlier graduated from college, had died from an accidental overdose. Trying to make sense of this tragic loss, we wondered how someone who had so much going...
by Carolyn | Apr 19, 2012 | Bullying, Family Therapy, Parenting Tweens
There has been quite a bit of publicity lately regarding bullying and rightly so. 80% of bullying is witnessed by others and it’s doing great harm to the emotional safety of a child. As a society, we can no longer allow this rash of hurtful words and actions to...
