Talking to Your Teen About Going to Therapy Being a teenager is a difficult time. Well, being alive is a continuous adventure of change, overcoming obstacles and celebrating victories, that’s a given. However, adolescence is the rite of passage between childhood and...
A Brief Introduction to Boundaries It took some brainstorming to pinpoint exactly what it is we do at PAX Therapy and Family Services. What does therapy with us help achieve? What gets better? After a sit down with our therapists, and looking at what our clients...
Gaslighting What is gaslighting? How do you know if you are being gaslit? Click on the photo above or this link to check out our youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFK0Gx_Jj4 Gaslighting So what I wanna talk about today is gas lighting. It gets thrown...
The Therapist Guide When I think about the journey of therapy, I visualize the journey of Dante through the 3 epic poems of Il Inferno, Il Purgatorio, e Il Paraiso. In order for Dante to experience the fullness of paradise, he experiences the horrors of the rings of...
Building confidence with or without a therapist... The title says most of what this is about. You hear people tell you that you are great, good at certain things, and that all makes sense. You believe them mostly. What is difficult is when you look at your life,...
In the Los Angeles area, we are entering week 3 of quarantine. For those of us abiding by social distancing, and for those in at-risk categories- this means minimal if any contact outside of our house. Many people report feeling lethargic, irritable, and “lazy”. I...
Let’s talk about the ambivalent and avoidant attachment connection and its relationship to toxicity and codependency. I want to quickly review how each of these attachments forms. Then I will go into 3 tips for repairing attachment in a relationship that has an...
The basis of the Anxious Avoidant Attachment Relationships and connections are the basis of human existence. In no era or time have we seen evidence that humans function alone. We run in packs. As we have evolved, the way we connect changed. In addition, we...
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