When I was younger, I had a timeshare with friends at the beach for nine years. Our weekends were filled with long, lazy days on the beach where stress was as foreign as "Pasta e Fagioli". The late afternoons were spent on the deck with frozen...
I'm often asked this question by both Catholics and non-Catholics. To put it simply, the use of the term, “Catholic therapist,” encompasses the scientific and spiritual approach that guides the work I do in helping people overcome their emotional...
This phrase frequently comes up during the course of counseling. Many have emotional wounds from past and even current relationships that continue to cause pain thus hindering advancement to fuller productive lives. The desire to move on...
Do you ever wonder where a lot of the pain we experience comes from? In our relationships, in our country, in our world? There seems to be no shortage of it. As a therapist, I get a front row seat to the daily pain in people’s lives.Pain is an age-old...
Facebook has this nifty feature in which you can view what happened in the past on that very day. Often I've forgotten what happened 6 or 7 years ago, sometimes even a year ago. Sometimes I laugh, but on one particular day of the summer, my memories...