I was speaking this past week with one of my long-time patients/clients and we were reflecting on the work we had done together and the time we had spent. I've had a few of these moments in the last few weeks and as much as...
As I write this, I am about a month away from retirement as a therapist at Family Practice Associates of Lexington. I suspect that I will write one more blog after this which will be a farewell blog. But for this penultimate one, I want...
There is a lot of talk about marital equality these days and I am certainly a big proponent of equal power, equal say, and so on in a marriage. Given that, you would easily assume that I consider marriage a 50/50 proposition and in a...
One of the many things that I see commonly in my therapy work is the issue of decision making and trying to determine what the best decision is at any given moment. In a previous blog I wrote about high school students trying to decide...
I have a theory that is probably not my theory nor in any way original to me, but it is something that I observe quite a lot. I call it defaulting to competencies. What I mean by this is that most people under duress or...
