Seattle Therapy Blog
Deal Breakers in a Relationship
Cultivating a healthy connection requires ongoing communication and compromise from both partners throughout the...
How to Stop Overthinking in Your Relationship
Overthinking may occur when people feel insecure, battle with low self-esteem, and experience difficulty letting go of...
33 Premarital Counseling Questions (From a Couples Therapist)
There will be premarital questions that will be unique to you, your relationship, and your expectations of a marriage....
How to Stop Being Insecure in a Relationship
Everyone wants to be their most confident, attractive, positive self when they enter into a relationship with someone...
How to Stop Gaslighting in Your Relationship
Gaslighting is a form of emotional abuse where the perpetrator gains control and power over another through slow,...
Relationship Boundaries Explained: How to Set Healthy Boundaries
In this article, we discuss the various types of boundaries and how they can support you with promoting your sense of...
Expectations in a Relationship: A Reality Check
How do we know if we're asking too much from our partners? What if we're asking too little? Expectations can shape the...
Is Sex Important in a Relationship?
What constitutes a satisfying sexual experience, and how important sex is to relationship satisfaction, depends on the...
Overcoming Retroactive Jealousy in Relationships
There are many ways to work through and overcome retroactive jealousy in counseling. Therapies such as cognitive...
Feeling Alone in A Relationship? Here’s What You Can Do
Feeling alone in your relationship and experiencing feelings of loneliness while in a relationship can indicate that...
The 5 Love Languages & How to Express Them
Author Dr. Gary Chapman wrote The Five Love Languages first published in 1992. His book introduced the idea that we...
Resentment In Relationships
Resentment is an uncomfortable emotion that occurs when we feel that we have been unfairly treated in a relationship....
The 8 Types of Affairs and What They Mean
There are 8 types of affairs. No matter which one you or your partner engages in - cheating is cheating. Affairs cause...
Avoid ‘But’ in Communication – Use ‘And’ Instead
Why should you avoid using 'but'? It can come off to someone as attacking and immediately put them on the defensive....
When to Walk Away After Infidelity
Infidelity is a major betrayal of your partner’s trust that results in an overwhelming sense of grief and loss. It is...
How to Prevent Defensiveness in Your Relationships
The path to improving communication and connection with others. What is Defensiveness or Being Defensive? Being...
Anchor Light Is Now ON THE AIR
Have you noticed that we’ve been ramping up around here? We have a new trauma-informed therapist (let’s hear it for...
How Unresolved Childhood Trauma Follows Us Into Adulthood
Have you ever been told “the past is the past” or “stop blaming mom and dad (others) for your problems”? If we could...
11 Strategies for Coping with COVID-19
Strategies for coping with COVID-19, stay and home orders; as well as other types of grief and trauma Some say time...
Emotional Trauma
Emotional trauma is often the silent trauma that no one really talks about. We generally think as a society that we...