Occupation: Columnist Birth: 1943
When someone comes to me seeking help I want to learn everything I can about them. I'm interested in their physical, emotional, interpersonal, social….
For years we've been treating men and women as though the only differences had to do with our sexual organs. The field of Gender-Specific Medicine wa….
A good therapist uses their whole being to engage fully with the whole being of the person coming for help..
Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic expe….
My own work on depression demonstrated that men and women often have different symptoms, with males often becoming more irritable, angry, and aggress….
Anything that helps us know ourselves more deeply, love ourselves more fully, improve our social connections with family and friends, and engage us m….
Energy healing is based on the supposition that illness results from disturbances in the body's energies and energy fields and can be addressed via i….
Psychotherapy is a practice that many different professional disciplines engage. Psychiatrists are also medical doctors and increasingly offer medica….
Effective psychotherapy works because the therapist continues to grow as a person and as a healer..
See yourself as a pioneer in a new world. We are not facing the end of the world, as some would have us believe, but the greatest adventure of our li….
It was long assumed that heart disease manifested the same in men and women. But Dr. Legato found that men may experience the classic symptoms of che….
I've found that techniques and practices of energy medicine offer healings that are often quicker, safer, and more effective than many better known h….
I've been a therapist for more than forty years and certainly there is a place for "wise elders" in the healing process. But most people, most of the….
Parents and therapists offer unconditional love without needing it to be returned, yet both sides grow in love, understanding, and acceptance..
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention to the s….
Looking at health through a gender lens is the first step to a more helpful and personalized approach to healing..
If you plan to read one book this year I encourage you to consider, Find Your Reason to Be Here..
If you want more love in your life, you could not find a better gift to give yourself, a friend, or a lover..