FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL COACHING

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...

What is mentalizing? Good mentalizing is inquiring deeply into understanding the mental experiences of self or other. It is trying to...

(But let's not give up the goal of getting your loved one into treatment!) Reviews of psychotherapy treatment outcome studies show that:...

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

FAMILIES! If you have a loved one who needs to be right, who is intolerant of different perspectives, who is often rigid and wants to...

MYTH: You CAN’T talk about it. Talking about suicide or asking someone if they feel suicidal will encourage suicide attempts. FACT:...

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...

"Cheat sheets" to help identify what you are feeling!

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...

Emotional Activation Escalates Invalidation Invalidation Escalates Emotional Activation When the transactional nature of invalidation and...

Inquisitive and not-knowing

Dogs are the second best mentalizers, right after humans! 😉

"Few things affect our lives more than our faculty of attention. If we can't focus our attention - due to either agitation or dullness -...

Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) was developed as a treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder by Bateman and Fonagy in the U.K.

No, I am not blaming the victim here. People are fully accountable for their own actions and anyone who screams, shouts, blames, swears,...

Do you have a son or daughter or other loved one who is emotionally volatile and blaming you for all their problems? Perhaps they are...