Facebook: Emotional-Pornography. “It’s just Facebook”, “It’s just texting”, “It’s just on-line chatting”. “It’s just a way to keep in touch and up to date with friends and family”. There are a lot of appropriate, harmless, and...
Sex should draw a couple closer together and bring fulfillment and relaxation. But stress can drive a couple apart and leave one or both partners lacking the desire to connect. There is an ebb and flow to life, to love, and to sex, and so it is normal...
Finding the career that best fits you may mean finding your “eye.” Although wild turtles stay completely motionless when walking near them, my childhood friend Mark and I often found them as we tromped through the several acres of deciduous forest...
A good fit doesn’t mean your therapist is just like you; it means he/she can understand you. Now and then we get a call from someone asking if any of our therapists have recovered from a specific substance of abuse, or whether we have therapists...
ADHD is a problem with inattentiveness, over-activity, impulsivity, distractibility or a combination. Most people think of ADHD as a childhood disorder, however it is not something one outgrows. There are plenty of adults who suffer from ADHD as well. Untreated...
A lot of people mean the same thing when they use the terms, but in California “counseling” and “therapy” may actually be very different things. Why does the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, under the direction of the California Department...
You may be asking yourself, “How do I find a Bakersfield area therapist who can actually help me?” It’s an important question. After all, what have you lost if you to choose the wrong therapist? How much time will you waste that could have been...
Will couples counseling help? There are ways to tell. Behavioral science now knows some of the predictors for a positive outcome in marriage or couples therapy. For most couples a positive outcome means that they make their relationship considerably...
Did you know there is a happiness experiment that has been going on for 74 years? 268 students from Harvard University were selected to participate in this study, and although the participants are old and dying now, the information is not. In fact, happiness...
