The internet often gets a bad rap among mental health professionals. Stefana Broadbent provides an alternative perspective via vignettes about the internet enabling intimacy.
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To start the New Year, I’d like to invite you to get connected with us on Facebook. My colleagues at PC&CC/The Imago Center and I have had many occasions when clients wanted to “friend” us on Facebook. There has...
I’ve been trying to think about how I could blog about this video from the Vimeo Festival called Last Minutes With Oden and segue in a clever way to some piece of wisdom about relationships and how much we...
Let’s face it, there is still significant stigma in the workplace around issues of mental health and illness. If you have to get an appendectomy, you’ll probably feel comfortable telling your colleagues about it and they might even send...
It’s rare to meet someone who would unequivocally describe their adolescent years as easy or painless. From my own experience, the words awkward and difficult first come to mind. I frequently hear today’s adolescents summarize their experience with one...
You may have heard about an important change in how grief and depression can be diagnosed in the upcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5), the book considered the “bible” for clinicians who diagnose psychiatric disorders....
In an intake session with a new client I always ask about their social support. I’ve always known how important a strong support network and social relationships are for psychological well-being. It turns out that social relationships are also...
We’ve all been there: you’ve just broken up with your special someone, said your goodbyes (“I don’t think we should see each other for a long time”), and then, without warning, you start doubting yourself. Maybe it starts with...
When couples experience a break in their connection, which is usually why they come to therapy, I encourage them to think back to the beginning of their relationship. Those were the days when they likely experienced their deepest level...
In Washington, we’re mostly accustomed to relationships where both partners are of the same political persuasion. Blue man with blue woman. Red man with red woman. But what if only one of the partners is green? Leslie Kauman writes...