Randi Gunther, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and marriage counselor practicing in Southern California. In her 40-year career, she has accumulated over 130,000 face-to-face hours with individuals, couples, and families.
When a relationship drains more than it fills, unaddressed feelings, outside interests, and self-sacrifice may lead to a decision to part for the sake of personal fulfillment.
To determine if therapy is right for you, reflect on your goals, needs, past patterns, and readiness for an open, honest relationship with a therapist to foster personal growth.
Successful long-term intimate relationships thrive on mutual trust, being each other's go-to person, sharing responsibilities without ego, and offering freedom within commitment.
When partners in a relationship don’t practice weaving, then they probably don’t realize how important it is to make their communication more successful.
There are several crucial steps that you can take to help you resolve your feelings about your past sadness and what you can appropriately ask of a new love.
There are several crucial steps that you can take to help you resolve your feelings about your past sadness and what you can appropriately ask of a new love.
When we fall prey to perfectionism, we think we’re honorably aspiring to be our very best, but often we’re really just setting ourselves up for failure, as perfection is impossible and its pursuit inevitably backfires.