Eastside Couples Therapy

06/05/2024

Love these questions

05/20/2023

Love this writer!

Crowdsourced relationship advice from over 1,500 people who have been living "happily ever after." Learn how they make it work.

05/13/2023

Here’s a first step towards sharing the mental load along with household tasks.

The simple exercise of writing down everything you and your partner are responsible for in running your home, and addressing the imbalance, will make your household more effective and equitable.

05/09/2023

Gentle start-up

04/30/2023

I have decided to take a step back from clinical work for the next 14 months so I can complete my doctoral dissertation. I'm excited for the next chapter; rest assured, I will be returning to counseling work when my dissertation is complete.

04/30/2023

02/19/2023

There are any number of positive motivators for couples to try nonmonogamy, but what you don’t want to do is rely on nonmonogamy to slap a Band-Aid on existing problems. “Using nonmonogamy to fix a relationship is as effective as having a baby to fix a relationship — it’s a terrible idea,” said Rebecca Sokoll, a psychotherapist in New York City. “You need a strong and healthy relationship to make the transition to nonmonogamy.”

More and more licensed marriage and family therapist Ian Kerner says he is seeing couples in his practice of all ages who have always been in monogamous relationships but now are seriously thinking about opening up their relationships.

02/13/2023

“In our five-week experiment, we found that this technique worked. The participating couples increased time with their beloved by an estimated 68 minutes per day, on average, compared with those in the control group (who were not encouraged to do anything differently during the five weeks). Expressing gratitude physically drew partners closer together.”

A psychologist and her research collaborators devised a technique to help people express gratitude to their partner when they felt it and found these expressions of gratitude drew couples closer by spending more time together.

01/01/2023

10 years ago today I opened my practice. It’s been quite a journey! I’m so grateful to the friends, colleagues and especially clients who have been a part of this amazing experience.

💜 Thank you from the bottom of my heart 💜