Tag Archive for: Individual Therapy

What is a Value Creating Life?

What’s truly of most value in life? Life deals us so many sufferings – loved ones pass, illness occurs, tragedy strikes. In a heartbeat, we could be hit with a critical blow we never saw coming, an event that could change the course of our lives forever. The bottom line: If you’re living and breathing, […]

How to Cure Analysis Paralysis

My Analysis Paralysis Story “Unfurl the ropes!” The white-haired captain barks as he surveys the wind-bellied sails. My twelve-year-old mind is spinning. Unfurl? What does unfurl mean? I’m clearly in over my head. What have I gotten myself into? The captain points to a large pile of twisted and knotted ropes on deck. In a […]

Acupuncture & Psychotherapy: What Do They Have in Common?

My First Acupuncture Session “How do you feel?” Oh brother! After twenty years of asking that question to my psychotherapy patients, I guess I had it coming to me. My situation is a little precarious. At the moment, I’m lying face down on an acupuncture table with more than a dozen needles poking out my […]

Therapy Secrets: How Does Your Therapist Feel About You?

Therapy and the Secret Life of Therapists Every day in therapy offices, therapists are bombarded with feelings from their patients: love, hate, rage, yearning, despair. Session after session, people in therapy share their secrets, dreams, and fantasies; they confess disappointments, expose painful memories, unearth fears, ambitions, and passions; all while their therapist sits and listens. […]

Psychotherapy & Yoga: What Do They Have In Common?

Understanding Yoga Here’s a secret that none of my patients know: in the past, I sat through sessions with an ice-pack or heating pad strapped to my lower back, discreetly tucked under my suit jacket. A back injury had made it difficult for me to sit for any length of time. As a psychotherapist, I […]

Taking the Ouch Out of the Couch

Why lay on a couch in therapy? Isn’t talking face-to-face more natural? In the beginning, lying on the couch does feel odd; there’s nothing natural about it. Yet it serves a very important function: it gives you greater access to your internal life. For example, when you isolate certain senses, other senses become amplified. The […]