FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL COACHING

Family life is full of intense emotions, deep bonds, and—sometimes—misunderstandings that leave us feeling disconnected. The good news is that there’s a powerful skill you can learn to transform your relationships: mentalizing.

What does control have to do with it? Families familiar with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) understand its effectiveness in managing...

Supporting a Loved One with Borderline Personality Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can be an emotionally intense and...

A REMINDER AND REVIEW FOR SOME. VALUABLE NEW PRACTICES FOR OTHERS. If you have a difficult relationship, these core mindfulness skills...

Three Core Skills Urgent and unrelenting crises of your loved one can leave you and others in the family feeling chronically overwhelmed....

Both responses sustain aggressive and violent behaviors If your loved one often engages in insistent demands and impulsive behaviors, you...

The year-end holidays can be wonderful and also sources of stress and frustration. Families share more time together. Food, rituals,...

The more you comply with demands for isolation and secrecy, the more reclusive and volatile your loved one becomes. Before you know it, your

Start small when it comes to reducing verbal attacks against you or not contributing to an escalating emotional crisis. The bathroom...

"The phenomenon of highly dependent adult children who are not actively engaged in productive occupational, educational, or vocational...

Does the emotion fit the facts? Emotions can trigger thoughts and interpretations about events and they can distort our perception, which...

Artificial Intelligence that Identifies Suicide Risk as Accurately as Trained Clinicians Siddhu Pachipala, a high school senior, is a...

A slow drip can dissolve rock, cut mountains in half, and reshape the planet. Can it cut through the stonewalling of your stubborn love...

That is where reducing conflict begins! Do you feel like a deer in the headlights in front of your reactive husband? Does your son or...

It seems there is not much difference! If you look at the “DSM-5” (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) you know that...

by Corrine Stoewsand

A few people have asked me how my workshop differs from others out there. I love to meet informed persons who research the options that...

Maybe you are not really an emotionally connected kind of person. You have no idea what your loved-one is feeling and they don't either....

Maybe you are more like frozen in fear, suffocating in humiliation, or exploding with rage? How can you possibly RELIEVE and even SOOTHE...

When Marsha Linehan, PhD, developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in the 1980s, she originally intended it to be used for treating...