HOW TO FIGHT WELL: 5 Ways to Keep It Fair
Fights happen! All couples fight. It’s just that couples in healthy relationships fight better. Unhealthy relationships or marriages with a high degree of conflict suffer because the partners don’t know how to fight well. THE GOODNESS OF THE OTHER: Fighting well means holding on to the fundamental goodness of the other even when you’re hurting…
MEDITATION & ANXIETY: How to Approach It?
Learning to bring the anxious, chaotic mind under control with mindfulness training may be a large part of successful anxiety treatment and a large part of any therapy for anxiety. A good anxiety therapist should have a solid working knowledge of mindfulness training. DOES THE IDEA OF MINDFULNESS MAKE YOU ANXIOUS? You may feel even…
ANXIETY: Bringing the Chaotic Mind Under Control
Are you living with anxiety? Do you fear what’s around the next corner? Is anxiety affecting your quality of life, your sleep, work, or your relationships? MEDICATION? Do you take medication to manage your anxiety? Xanax? Klonopin? Buspar? Zoloft? Paxil? Lexapro? Anafranil? Are they wreaking havoc with your libido—killing your sex drive? Do they impact…
INFIDELITY: Discussing the Details
The important question: How much do you want to know, and why? If your partner has had an affair—if there’s been infidelity in your relationship—how much do you want to know? Obviously, infidelity violates the bond of trust that healthy relationships require. And, when one partner has an affair, the marriage or relationship is severely…
EMPATHY: More Important Than Sympathy
Empathy or sympathy? The key to understanding the difference is focus. Whose feelings are the subject of focus? Whose experience is the subject of the interaction? Yours? SYMPATHY: When you hear distressing news from a friend such as a death in the family, what’s your response? Chances are your response is one of sympathy if the…
WELCOME: Serving All With Dignity
Welcome to all communities. Long Island Counseling proudly celebrates all of our neighbors and serves all who reach out to us with dignity and respect. We warmly welcome the Asian and South Asian communities, the African American Communities, the Greek and Middle-Eastern Communities, the Christian, Jewish and Muslim Communities into its growing and diverse practice….
THERAPY: Time To Heal
People complain that therapy goes on “forever”. Freud himself wrote about the lengthy nature of psychoanalysis. He pointed out that a person needs time in treatment before becoming free of his or her symptoms of mental distress like depression, anxiety, fears, sexual issues, anger and so forth. Why does it take time to heal? REPETITION…
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