1 What is Therapy?
2 How to pick a therapist
3 Evaluating Therapy
4 Individual Counseling
5 Couples’ Counseling
6 Getting your spouse to Couples’ Counseling
7 How to Communicate: the art of actively listening
8 How to Communicate: Speaking Clearly
9 Adults who were sexually abused in childhood
10 Psychiatric Diagnoses – what are they and why do I get one if I see a therapist?
11 Grief – recognizing it, coping with it and moving on from it
12 Grieving the loss of your animal companion
13 Managing Change
14 Boundaries
15 Boundaries Revisited – now how do they work???
16 Courtesy – Not so common these days!
17 Loneliness
18 Making Connection in Life
19 Invisible Losses
20 Blessing our ancestors
21 Phobias – what are they and how do we deal with them?
22 Adult children of alcoholic or abusive parents (ACOA)
23 Seasonal Affective Disorder
24 Anxiety
25 Depression
26 Optimism and Gratitude
27 Overcoming Fear
28 Resilience
29 Support for the Unemployed and Underemployed
30 Stress Reduction for Stressful Times
31 Stress Reduction Part 2
32 Baby Steps
33 Social Isolation
34 Bipolar Disorder
35 Attachment and Letting Go
36 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder(s)
37 Journal Writing as a Healing Tool
38 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
39 Dealing with Anger – Our Own
40 Dealing with Anger – Other People’s Anger
41 Psychiatric Medications
42 Time
43 Lies and Lying
44 Don’t take anything personally
45 Making Assumptions
46 Always Do Your Best
47 Applying the Four Agreements
48 Alcohol Dependence
49 Alcohol Abuse (Addiction)
50 Treatment for Alcohol Addiction
51 Impact of Addiction on Families
52 Positive Stress
53 When your child is an addict
54 Do you have a happy marriage?
55 Kindness
56 Self-inflicted Misery
57 Empathy
58 Generosity
59 The Guiding Power of Death
60 Suicide
61 To the living after a death
62 Civility in troubled times
63 Please don’t be late for therapy
64 Searching for Common Ground
65 Truth-i-ness during the holidays
66 Dealing with the holidays
67 New Year’s resolutions and further thoughts on surviving the holidays