How does counselling work? Many people have asked this question and do not know. Some people formed predefined opinions about it without ever having tried it due to the unfortunate stigma attached to it. The stigma comes from a lack of understanding on how professional counselling works. For many other people they ...
Date Posted: July 2, 2014
Categories: Couple Counseling, Marital Counseling, Men's Issues, Multicultural ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
"Reprinted from Sexual Intelligence™ Marty Klein, Ph.D. (www.SexualIntelligence.org)."Cheating, infidelity, adultery—no matter what you call it, it’s a staple of popular culture. Articles with titles like “Why he cheats,” “Affair-proofing your ...
Jul 2
Categories: Couple Counseling, Infidelity, Marital Counseling, Men's Issues, ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
A frequent call I get is a distraught female partner calling me to make an appointment for the couple or her spouse/boyfriend because she caught him using porn (which is code for masturbating himself to porn and not using her). The other frequent call I get is the shamed husband/boyfriend calling ...
May 11
Categories: Couple Counseling, Ending a relationship issues, Marital Counseling, ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
Betrayals in relationship change the quality and functioning of the relationship in dramatic ways. Trust is the primary aspect affected as well as the betrayed partner’s sense of safety in the couple. Betrayals bring up many dilemmas for the couple. Few couples have the skills or the ...
May 11
Categories: Couple Counseling, Infidelity, Marital Counseling, Men's Issues, ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
Couples struggling with an unsatisfying sex life may blissfully remember the days when they seems to effortlessly fall into bed and enjoy one another sexually. You may also want to recall along with that image how much simplier your life was back then. You didn't have bills, debts, mortgage, ...
Apr 8
Categories: Couple Counseling, Men's Issues, Relationships & Marriage, Sexual ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
People drink for all sorts of reason. Some reasons are to socialize, celebrate and relax. Other times people use alcohol as a form of self-medication to help them manage stress, anxiety or to use it to distract them from unpleasant or unhappy situations in their life.Alcohol has a strong effect on ...
Apr 2
Categories: Addictions, Couple Counseling, Men's Issues, Women's Issues, ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
An Introduction to Art Therapy: A Brief Guide to Art Therapy
by Andrew Wright, Art Psychotherapist, based in Dubai, UAE.) Art Therapy is a well-developed profession in the US and the UK and is an approach that is used to help people of all ages.Art Therapy is the use of the creative arts ...
Feb 20
Categories: Abortion, Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Addictions, Adjusting to ...
Written By:
Andrew C Wright HCPC registered (UK)
Susan has been cheated on by her husband. She is broken. It's so difficult for her to make it through each day. She struggles with finding energy to get out of bed each morning. Physically, she is very listless, trying to hold her self together. Her recurring post-affair memories and thoughts ...
Feb 18
Categories: Addictions, Couple Counseling, Infidelity
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Many people spend little time thinking about the meaning of sex or the purpose of sex. It is not until you cannot get it or it stops working in your relationship that you really examine it. How we define sex or what we consider to be sex can create problems for couples.Human beings are meaning ...
Feb 16
Categories: Couple Counseling, Marital Counseling, Men's Issues, Women's Issues
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
The number one question people have about sex is “Am I normal?” The second most common question asked is “Is my partner normal?”It is never helpful to frame sex in terms or normal or not normal as if there was so universal standard or universal truth. The is a wide ...
Jan 13
Categories: Adult psychological development, Coping with Medical Problems, Couple ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
When people are having sexual problems in their marriage one of the things people consider is to find a sex therapist. There are many misconceptions about a sex therapists/therapy and many people confuse a sex therapist with a sex surrogate.Dr. Marty Klien, a nationally and internationally ...
Jan 13
Categories: Couple Counseling, Marital Counseling, Men's Issues, Sexual Problems ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
It is faulty thinking to believe that if you are attracted to someone else there must be something wrong at home. It is possible to be attracted to somebody else, even if you have a good marriage. The single most important protector against an affair is appropriate boundaries. In a culture where ...
Dec 7
Categories: Couple Counseling, Divorce / Divorce Adjustment, Ending a ...
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Parents are always focused on what is good for their kids. However, what most parents don’t realize is, that what kids needs above all else are two parents that get along, support each other and work as team, especially when it comes to parenting. So many couples grossly underestimate how ...
Nov 21
Categories: Blended Family Issues, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Couple ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
An emotional affair is when a person not only invests more of their emotional energy outside their marriage, but also receives emotional support and companionship from the new relationship. In an emotional affair, a person feels closer to the other party and may experience increasing ...
Nov 16
Categories: Couple Counseling, Divorce / Divorce Adjustment, Ending a ...
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Are you struggle with a marriage that isn't working the way you want it too but your partner isn't as interested or motivated as you are to fix it? Do you really need to have your spouse or romantic partner attend counselling in order to make it better? The short answer is no, you do ...
Nov 12
Categories: Couple Counseling, Divorce / Divorce Adjustment, Domestic Violence, ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
Emotional Affairs are an issue that we see more and more. What is an emotional affair? It can be described as intense romantic feelings directed toward a person outside your primary relationship. In other words, having an emotional affair is falling in love with the potential or fantasy ...
Oct 24
Categories: Couple Counseling, Divorce / Divorce Adjustment, Ending a ...
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