Seattle Therapy Blog
Relationship experts agree that when asked which qualities people value in a romantic partner, respect and honesty ...
A healthy relationship is built on a mutual respect. Respect means a mutual feeling of deep admiration for someone ...
How to Deal With Stonewalling in a Relationship
Imagine coming home and being met with a barrage of criticisms ...
Cultivating a healthy connection requires ongoing communication and compromise from both partners throughout the ...
Overthinking may occur when people feel insecure, battle with low self-esteem, and experience difficulty letting ...
There will be premarital questions that will be unique to you, your relationship, and your expectations of a ...
Everyone wants to be their most confident, attractive, positive self when they enter into a relationship with ...
Gaslighting is a form of emotional abuse where the perpetrator gains control and power over another through slow, ...
Boundaries can support you by promoting your sense of self. They give you the ability to separate your identity, ...
How do we know if we're asking too much from our partners? What if we're asking too little? Expectations can shape ...
What constitutes a satisfying sexual experience, and how important sex is to relationship satisfaction, depends on ...
There are many ways to work through and overcome retroactive jealousy in counseling. Therapies such as cognitive ...
Couples who experience feelings of loneliness in their marriage often report feeling more alone than if they were ...
Author Dr. Gary Chapman wrote The Five Love Languages book, first published in 1992. His book introduced the idea ...
Resentment is an uncomfortable emotion that occurs when we feel that we have been unfairly treated in a ...
There are 8 types of affairs. No matter which one you or your partner engages in - cheating is ...
Why should you avoid using 'but'? It can come off to someone as attacking and immediately put them on the ...
Infidelity is a major betrayal of your partner’s trust that results in an overwhelming sense of grief and loss. It ...
The path to improving communication and connection with others.
What is Defensiveness or Being Defensive?
Being ...
Have you noticed that we’ve been ramping up around here? We have a new trauma-informed therapist (let’s hear it ...
Have you ever been told “the past is the past” or “stop blaming mom and dad (others) for your problems”?
If we ...
Strategies for coping with COVID-19, stay and home orders; as well as other types of grief and trauma
Some say ...
Emotional trauma is often the silent trauma that no one really talks about.
We generally think as a society that ...
Throughout life, we learn from an accumulation of experiences.
Let’s say growing up in school you were always ...