Guilt is a Four Letter Word OK, I know I can’t count, but this title gets people’s attention about this very debilitating feeling and the underlying dynamics that set it up. In my capacity as an outpatient psychologist, I run into lots of conditions, many of which rest upon the deeper dynamic of anxiety. Relationships [...]

Child Visitation and The Formation Of Self-Esteem–Part IV In my capacity as an outpatient psychologist, I have worked with people for almost twenty-five years. By far, the single most central element, the one thing that pervades almost every other issue is self-esteem. It touches everything–sex and relationships, work problems, anxiety, depression, addictions; you name it. [...]

Child Visitation and The Formation Of Self-Esteem–Part III In my capacity as an outpatient psychologist, I have worked with people for almost twenty-five years. By far, the single most central element, the one thing that pervades almost every other issue is self-esteem. It touches everything–sex and relationships, work problems, anxiety, depression, addictions; you name it. [...]

Child Visitation and The Formation Of Self-Esteem–Part II In my capacity as an outpatient psychologist, I have worked with people for almost twenty-five years. By far, the single most central element, the one thing that pervades almost every other issue is self-esteem. It touches everything–sex and relationships, work problems, anxiety, depression, addictions; you name it. [...]

Blended Families, Part IV In my capacity as an outpatient psychologist, I have worked with children of all ages for over twenty years. Usually parents drag their kids into my office complaining of a litany of bad behaviors, ranging from not cleaning up their rooms, to getting bad grades, hitting their siblings, or worse, stealing, [...]

Blended Families, Part III In my capacity as an outpatient psychologist, I have worked with children of all ages for over twenty years. Usually parents drag their kids into my office complaining of a litany of bad behaviors, ranging from not cleaning up their rooms, to getting bad grades, hitting their siblings, or worse, stealing, [...]

Blended Families, Part III In my capacity as an outpatient psychologist, I have worked with children of all ages for over twenty years. Usually parents drag their kids into my office complaining of a litany of bad behaviors, ranging from not cleaning up their rooms, to getting bad grades, hitting their siblings, or worse, stealing, [...]

Blended Families, Part II In my capacity as an outpatient psychologist, I have worked with children of all ages for over twenty years. Usually parents drag their kids into my office complaining of a litany of bad behaviors, ranging from not cleaning up their rooms, to getting bad grades, hitting their siblings, or worse, stealing, [...]

Blended Families, Part I In my capacity as an outpatient psychologist, I have worked with children of all ages for over twenty years. Usually parents drag their kids into my office complaining of a litany of bad behaviors, ranging from not cleaning up their rooms, to getting bad grades, hitting their siblings, or worse, stealing, [...]

Before the Divorce-Part III In my capacity as an outpatient psychologist, I have for over twenty years dealt with parents and children who are experiencing some phase of relationship and usually family dissolution. This is Part III of a three part series of articles on what parent’s might do before separating and/or divorcing, written from [...]