Understanding Complex Trauma in High-Achievers: A Valentine-Inspired Guide to Healing with IFS and Trauma-Informed Therapy
Explore how childhood trauma underpins anxiety, burnout, and substance use in high-achievers. Learn how Internal Family Systems (IFS) concepts of parts and Self can support trauma-informed therapy and complex-trauma couples work. Includes a practical parts meditation.
Bids, Boundaries, and Self-Leadership: A Unified Path to Fulfillment for High-Performing Couples
What are bids you may ask? Emotional or physical attempts to connect with your partner in a meaningful way to each other in unique ways. Many of us need boundaries after realizing our own self-actualized leadership of our parts to allow for that. We take a deep dive of the research on how to effectively attune to each other’s bids for affection and attention, while maintaining a healthy sense of self through boundaries and interdependence.
Blending Families from Different Backgrounds: Evidence-Based Strategies for Healing Together
Blending different families is a true art and can invoke a lot of feelings for family members. Seeking out help through shared rituals of cultural, identity, and family backgrounds can help everyone feel emotionally safe during a sometimes grief and challenging holiday season.
How Your Family's Mental Health and Substance Use Affected You as a Child—and How It Shows Up in Your Adult Relationships Today
Family mental health issues often bring out substance and behavioral misuse symptoms, which can have a monumental ripple impact on children and parents.
Couples Therapy for ADHD: Rebuilding Trust, Routines, and Respect
How Couples Therapy Helps ADHD-Impacted Relationships Heal
Is Couples Therapy Worth It? What You Need to Know Before Considering the Investment.
If you’re struggling with trust, communication, resentment, ADHD-related challenges, trauma wounds, or emotional disconnection, good couples therapy is absolutely worth it. It saves years of pain, builds emotional security, and teaches skills most of us were never taught growing up.
Parenting Self-Care During Challenging Times: Guidance From a Couples Therapist
Parenting is difficult. Parenting during these times is extremely difficult and parental burnout is at an all time high. Finding ways to release the parental stress inventory is essential for raising healthy secure humans, check out these 10 self-care tips for parents in 2025!
The Heart Behind the Armor
Couples who are protecting our country’s safety for a living sacrifice and struggle more than others for unique reasons. Let’s learn more how we can support our armed service members to better serve and protect us!
Can couples recover together?
As the majority of the population struggles with depression or anxiety, they look to avoid those feelings with behavioral, substance, and alcohol misuse. Can healing in a couple still occur? How do we do it well?
Protect & Serve: Why US Forces & Law Enforcement Members & Partners Need Relationship Therapy
The high-stress nature of the job, long hours, and the unique culture of Criminal Justice Service Members can all impact the ability of these couples to form and maintain healthy relationships. In this blog, we will explore the reasons why law enforcement couples need relationship therapy and how it can help.