How I helped My Client (3) – Manage Chronic Insomnia and Sleep Like a Baby

By |2025-08-19T19:04:09+00:00August 19th, 2025|Anger Stress and Health, Inner Conflicts, Uncategorized|

Insomnia dogged 36-year-old Phillipe all his life. He hated not being able to control his body and make it do the right thing, just as he hated all parts of himself that were not perfect. Insomnia was a sign of imperfection and a sign that he wasn’t normal – making him feel defeated in [...]

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How I Helped My Client 2 – Showing How She Set Herself Up to Deny Her Deepest Wish

By |2025-07-22T19:07:45+00:00July 22nd, 2025|Anxiety Treatment, Depression Counseling, Inner Conflicts, Insecurity Counseling, Intimacy, relationship issues, Uncategorized|

How I helped My Client  – Showing How She Set Herself Up to Deny Her Deepest Wish Susan a 38-year-old Dental Hygienist had always felt that she got a raw deal in life. Unloved and neglected by her parents, she was now rejected by her partner Mick when she made overtures for closeness, affection, [...]

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Why Your Efforts to “Cheer Them Up” Doesn’t Work for Depressive Personality Styles

By |2025-06-09T20:37:41+00:00June 9th, 2025|Anger Issues, Depression Counseling, Family of Origin Counseling, Inner Conflicts|

Poppy let out a big sigh as her 32-year-old brother Josh said that he had tried her latest suggestion of walking in nature motivation but it hadn’t helped with his fatigue and low motivation. Josh’s big sister had been trying to buoy him up for as long as she could remember, to no effect. [...]

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Torn Between Your Parents and Your Partner – Unable to Choose

By |2025-05-13T18:28:28+00:00May 13th, 2025|Communication Problems, Couples Counseling, Individual Counseling, Inner Conflicts, Intimacy, Separation and Loss|

Howard couldn’t commit to his girlfriend Melinda. He was torn between her and his parents. He didn’t want to choose, and hoped that Melinda, a 33-year-old food writer would tolerate his umbilical connection with his parents; because being cut off from them was worse than the idea of losing Melinda. Howard couldn’t separate from [...]

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