No one gets a user manual on what to once an infidelity, as defined by one or both parties is discovered. Here are some things people need to consider before making any decision.
What is infidelity?
This may reveal value differences in a couple and highlight how little time a couple spent discussing early on ...
Date Posted: October 13, 2013
Categories: Couple Counseling, Divorce / Divorce Adjustment, Emptiness, Ending a ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
If you have Bipolar Disorder, you've probably heard someone say: "You know what your problem is? You're not trying hard enough to control your emotions!" And yes, it's painful to hear. Basically, what your friend, parent, or just the armchair expert next door is ...
Oct 10
Categories: Bipolar
Written By:
Kay Vardeleon
One of the challenges of quitting smoking is dealing with the craving. The strong urge to smoke while abstaining is both physical and psychological; your body may already have developed a tolerance to nicotine, and you have adapted to the cigarette habit in your life. The longer you’ve been a ...
Oct 10
Categories: Addictions
Written By:
Kay Vardeleon
Yesterday, I had a whole-day fun-filled, interactive university lecture/seminar on psychotherapy and personality before 200+ psychology students over at RTU in Manila. Celine, Jovic, and their team did excellent organizing, which brought memories of my years in undergraduate psychology (not too ...
Oct 10
Categories: Happiness, Personality problems, Workplace Issues
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Couples commonly engage in arguments throughout the course of their relationship. Whether it's about sharing the household chores, forgetting to get the groceries or even where to go on a holiday. However, fights over small issues can sometimes snowball into something more menancing if the ...
Oct 9
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
Written By:
Brian Scott
The author sees that there are many factors contributing to the over diagnosis of ADHD. In the United States, there are social, medical and parenting forces at play that contribute to more than 4.4 million children between the ages of 4 to 17 years old having an ADHD diagnosis and a dramatic ...
Oct 3
Categories: Academic Issues, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
Art Therapy with young people In Solving Problems Creatively Part 1, I explored how the creative process can solve problems. In Part 2, I will illustrate how symbols, depicted in art therapy, can be metaphors to express feelings and difficult experiences.Art Therapy in practice: Children and ...
Sep 19
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Adjusting to Change / Life ...
Written By:
Andrew C Wright HCPC registered (UK)
Don't let the fear of crying or bad stories put you off of sleep training one day longer. In my years of working with families often the "horror" stories of sleep come from the fact that there is a lot of inappropriate application of various sleep methods combined ...
Sep 19
Categories: Caregiver Issues / Stress, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
Image, Symbol, and MetaphorImagine you have a problem that you cannot solve. You feel like you have a mental block. Your brain is tying itself in knots, it’s frustrating as you feel stuck. You cannot stand it any longer so you go for a walk. As your mind wanders you start to relax. Suddenly a ...
Sep 18
Categories: Career Development and Change, Creative Blocks, Emotional ...
Written By:
Andrew C Wright HCPC registered (UK)
Have you ever obsessed about the one critical comment someone made to you despite the fact that they also made quite a few positive remarks? For some reason you keep ruminating about that one negative remark. You think about it over and over, perhaps looking for a way to argue better against it or ...
Sep 18
Categories: Happiness, Positive Psychology
Written By:
Brian Scott
Bringing a baby into a couple’s life is one of the biggest changes a couple will have to work out together. Unfortunately couples grossly underestimate how much this tiny bundle of joy will change their individual lives and their relationships and as a result do not prepare for it. ...
Sep 11
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Anxiety, Attachment Issues, ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
People do get addicted. And the reason why they can't just quit is because they get a kind of relief - temporarily. Turning to material, visible, or concrete things somehow work to make the pain of unmet needs go away. Unfortunately, they're not reliable. They change and we can know what to ...
Sep 9
Categories: Addictions, Adult psychological development, Antisocial personality
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Communicating with our child can be a big challenge. As parents you are trying to get our children to do what we think they need to do in order to become competent and capable adults. Often our children have ideas of their own.
One reason this is really challenging is that it takes 25 years to ...
Sep 7
Categories: Attachment Issues, Blended Family Issues, Child and/or Adolescent ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
It’s not a communication problem
Married couples think because their partner doesn’t want what s/he wants or see the problem as s/he does, they have a communication problem. People’s definition of a communication problem is that they are unable to get their partner to ...
Sep 7
Categories: Blended Family Issues, Codependency / Dependency, Communication ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
As a psychotherapist, I've become convinced that more than half of the emotional pains we suffer in life are totally unnecessary. A lot of these unnecessary pains are caused by a wounded sense of self worth. And so often, a wounded self worth is accompanied by constant negative self talks, ...
Sep 2
Categories: Identity Problems, Self-Care / Self Compassion, Self-Esteem
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Counselling for Cheating or Infidelity in a Marriage
Relationships can and do recover from marrital cheating and they can go on to survive and thrive. However the journey to a great marriage after learning about infidelity is a challenging path.
There are several stages that married couples must ...
Aug 25
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Adult psychological ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA