Resources.
Self-Help Tools
Relationship Compatibility Quiz.
Thinking of taking your relationship to the next level? Wondering why you and your partner are struggling to connect? Take my compatibility to find out. When you submit your responses, I’ll send you a customized response!
Find Out Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type.
Do you tend to need alone time to recharge? Or do you need to spend lots of time socializing? Do you tend to lead with logic? Or with emotion? Are you a risk-taker? Or would you rather think things through? The better you know yourself, the better partner you can be. Click the link above to take the free quiz and find out!
First Responders Coping with COVID-19.
If you or someone you love is working on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, you are facing a unique set of mental health challenges. Fortunately, there are resources tailored to you. Click the link above to download a sample of a workbook designed for frontline responders. And if you (or your loved one) is interested in more support, please get in touch.
Books I recommend for couples.
Love Sense
by Dr. Sue Johnson
Every day we hear about, see, or experience relationships failing. That’s a path many of us don’t want to go down, but we may feel our relationships slipping in that direction. But we may wonder, “How is it that relationships actually DO work?”
While some answers may seem obvious in theory, it can be revelatory to have them explained from a scientific point of view. Successful relationships really are different, and we can now define HOW they are different. It does make sense….Love Sense.
This book explains how reaching and responding to our partners on a consistent, everyday level is crucial in every stage of our relationships (and how making repairs when we don’t is equally important). How do we do that? Stay tuned. It all makes Sense!
Hold Me Tight
by Dr. Sue Johnson
This book acquaints couples with the process of transforming their “stuck places” and “raw spots” into opportunities to increase their closeness and step out of patterns of escalating frustration. In EFT this is what we call “The Cycle”. Common examples of “The Cycle” include:
One partner is almost always the one to initiate (“pursuing”) and the other one shuts down (“withdrawing”).
Both partners have a “pursuing” style and seem to have a hard time discussing difficult topics in the relationship without conflict.
Both partners have a “withdrawing” style and shy away from difficult topics. They drift further and further apart over time.
This book provides practical exercises for making that transformation happen in real-time. It is a wonderful prequel to actual EFT therapy.
Book recommendation for parents of young children.
Parenting From The Inside Out
by Dan Siegel
Be the kind of parent that you really want to be. This book helps parents to examine their own histories and tendencies so that they can become the kind of parents they would like to be instead of the kind of parent that they were programmed tp be by their own family history.