We appreciate and put trust in those who are self-confident. With confidence comes feelings of strength and certainty. Confidence, then, is generally thought of positively. In relationships, however, confidence can…
“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….
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…
In what’s become known as The Consumer Reports Study (Seligman, 1995), Martin Seligman decided to answer one of the hardest questions in psychology: does therapy work? In short, yes! The…