Basic Human Rights
Years ago when facilitating a young women’s life skills group, I would often include handouts and one was a list of Basic Human Rights (as seen below). As I recall, …
The Greatest Communication Tool Ever Invented
“We need to communicate better.” This is the most commonly uttered phrase I hear couples use at the start of couples counseling. “Can you give us some tools?” typically follows. …
“People don’t talk like that!“
When I am teaching couples, individuals, or groups about communication, a common reservation they express is that “People don’t talk like that.” Some of the common constructions for teaching assertive …
Hinting
What is wrong with what you want? How we share our wants and needs with our spouse determines how well we get them met. This could be sharing something relatively …
Communication
A critical element of therapy is communication. Freud called what he did the “talking cure,” and today what therapists do is often still described as “talk therapy.” Many books and …
