The stigma of couples therapy: Gottman Marriage Minute


If you suffer a physical injury, would you wait weeks or even years before seeing a doctor? Probably not, because you know that a doctor can assess what's wrong and treat it before things gets worse! Unfortunately, most couples don't think of emotional injuries in the same way. The average couple waits six years before seeking help, and by that point it …

Sinus Infections And Repressed Anger by Jennifer Elizabeth Masters, CHt


December 18, 2017 by Jennifer Elizabeth Masters CHt Leave a reply reprinted from https://healthguild.org/sinus-infections-and-repressed-anger/   Fighting and arguing can allow us to vent, release tension as well as pent-up emotions. Yelling is not the best way to express ourselves, but in the heat of the moment, it may be healthier, in the long run, to …

The Hardest Job – Parenting


Our goal as parents is to raise emotionally healthy and well adapted adults. Enhancing the quality of parent-child relationships, beginning with bonding through each developmental milestone provides learning tools that allow our parenting goals to flourish. Mindfulness in parenting reminds us to slow down and observe, while reminding us to be flexible in our response. …

New Year – New You!


Free anxiety and depression screenings, contact me via my website contact information and let me know your email to receive your free screening tool (specify which screening you are interested in). Don't allow anxiety or depression hold you hostage from living y our life!   Transformational coaching removes the pathological or pathogenic aspects that the …

Online therapy vs. In person?


We spend much of our time online, whether for work or pleasure. Online telehealth including therapy/counseling/life coaching is available through secure HIPPA web-services, providing video and audio similar to Apple's Facetime or Skype. The following poll is to gauge the acceptance of online vs. in-person sessions. Feel free to share this poll with others, it …

Take your partner’s side: Gottman Institute 


It's important to take your partner's side when they're upset about something outside the relationship. This means being supportive even if you think they're being unreasonable. The point isn't to be dishonest or enabling. It's to empathize with their feelings. You can give advice later, if they want, when they're ready to hear it.  For example, if your partner's boss chews them …

Business Solutions


Empowering today’s employee will in return empower you, by increasing moral, productivity, customer service, and financial viability to your organization. How is your business doing? Are you experiencing moral issues with your employees? Moral affects your bottom line from productivity, customer relations to the overall value of your organization. Here are some of the signs …

The Marriage Minute ~ Gottman Institute


How was your day, dear? Learning to cope with pressures and tensions outside your relationship is crucial to the long-term health of your marriage, according to research by Neil Jacobson.  The most effective way to do this is to reunite at the end of the day and talk about how it went. We call this the …

The Marriage Minute ~ Gottman Institute


The power of empathy Empathy is the capacity to identify and share someone else’s emotions and experiences. As Brené Brown explains in the clip above, "empathy is feeling with people."  It's the key to emotional attunement with your partner and it's essential to the Emotion Coaching style of parenting. To have empathy is to really understand somebody, …

The Marriage Minute – Gottman Institute


Response ability We’ve all been defensive. Defensiveness is self-protection in an attempt to ward off a perceived attack, and it's one of the Four Horsemen that predicts divorce.  The antidote to defensiveness is to accept responsibility for your role in the issue.  Think about the word responsibility. Response. Ability. You have the ability to respond with patience and kindness. …