Psychotherapy is a conversation between a licensed professional and a client who seeks change inbehavior, increased self-awareness and better relationships.  The goal is to optimize one’s ability to live more often in positive feelings such as hope, serenity, appreciation, pride, and compassion for self and others. Brief interventions may be …

Our Conversations invent us. Through our speech and our silence, we become smaller or larger selves. Through our speech and our silence we diminish or enhance the other person, and we narrow or expand the possibilities between us. How we use our voice determines the quality of our relationships, who …

Authentic soul mates hear the fears and honor the tears both inside oneself and on the face and in the heart of significant others. They let go of rage both inside and on the faces and in the heart of significant others. They hear what’s near and honor the joy …

Susan Granger’s review of ‘Out of the Clear Blue Sky’  Published 3:00 pm, Friday, September 6, 2013 On Sept. 11, there’s a one-night, nationwide theatrical event, “Out of the Clear Blue Sky,” in which documentary filmmaker Danielle Gardner relates the story of Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street bond trading firm that lost 658 …

Are you trying to protect your children from the stress of separation or divorce? The Metro West Practice Group of the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council, Inc. wants to help. Please come to our October 3rd Open House from 7:00 to 8:45 p.m. at the Watertown Library at 123 Main Street …

There are personal, interpersonal and societal contexts for infidelity. In the midst of breaking a promise to one’s partner – and infidelity is just that — one is not reflecting much. Anger may be a driver, vaguely registered, since a recent fight unresolved seems like a good excuse to justify …

Solving objective math problems back in junior high school was so much fun. It was about the relationships of one set of numbers to others. Now I am enjoying solving subjective, people puzzles or human instead of number relationships. In my huge junior high there were future doctors, lawyers and …

Consider the effect that your words have on others:

  In this excerpt from Any Given Sunday, Al Pacino gives a speech to his team before their last game. What he says also applies to couples and families who need to pull together as a team to create or restore a culture of trust:

Today at noon I conduct my first webinar for the Brown Alumni Association’s Executive/Career Coach Webinar series. My title is “Identifying Your Unique Talents and Values”. I look forward to offering this presentation at other venues in the near future.

We talk about unique talents, strengths and values. We rave about following our dreams and passions. But how many of us really know who we are? How many of us have actually stopped to create a vision, a guiding light at the end of the tunnel that will express our …

Bashbat Advertising Dep. For your daily dose of amazing, quirky, great, inventive, ingenious and simply awesome advertising. 10th JunFri (editor’s note: I have actually seen these hanging around The Netherlands and they are quite impressive.) “I wish we never had children. What you say during divorce lasts forever.” Advertising Agency: …

  This article highlights the approach of Woody Mosten in Collaborative Law interdisciplinary Training re emotional outbursts. He demonstrates client self-soothing. And he reframes the highly laden emotional issue into an agenda item thereby pointing to next possible steps. The coach works with the wife. The official Divorce Coach works …