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Relationship Therapy: How Long Will It Take?

Couples seeking relationship and couples therapy in Seattle sometimes ask a particular question when we set up a first appointment on the phone: “How long will couples therapy take?” I’d like to discuss some common reasons for that question, and then offer a different take on it. The Common Reasons

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Desire Speaks

A Book On Desire The work of Katharine Angel, Unmastered: A Book on Desire Most Difficult To Tell, stands apart in its level of intimacy, vulnerability and courage. It sketches out an emotionally and physically aware psychology of heterosexual feminine desire, loosely but perceptively journaled in the context of an

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First Appointment Process Now Begins Online

Online Intake Process For New Clients My office uses a secure online intake process for new clients. This is a ‘paper-less’ process that also saves time. The new process allows you to: complete all the necessary forms help schedule our personal phone conversation to set the appointment and answer other

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Stress and Depression – What’s In A Diagnosis?

Meaning of “Stress” and “Depression” Two recent books have raised provocative points about the most common complaints that clients present to psychotherapists: stress* and depression.  [One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble with Stress as an Idea by Dana Becker] and [How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown

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Humorous blog post (for once)

I found this little graphic a few months ago, and in a fit of irresponsibility, I decided to post it for a tiny laugh. I would like to think that clients know me to have a sense of humor. But you would never guess it from my blog. I must

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