October is LGBTQ+ History Month! Here at Collaborative Counseling Center, we’re committed to uplifting the voices and shining a light on the experiences of our diverse community. In honor of National Coming Out Day, we’re going to share some of the steps you can take to build empathy, champion belonging, and celebrate diversity with the…
Category Archives: Couples
Great Sex and Ikea Furniture
What do great sex and assembling Ikea furniture have in common? At least one thing: teamwork. In this video clip, Sue Johnson, the originator of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), discusses “the dance of sex” and the importance of emotional presence, attunement, and sensitive responsiveness. In terms of teamwork, she says, good sex is a little…
‘Trying’ times: staying strong as a couple in the face of fertility challenges
“Are you trying?,” “How many children do you want?” So often it seems the topic of having children is anything but private. However, while we readily ask questions about starting a family, there seems to be a far less open discussion of the difficulties couples encounter along the way. Many couples can experience a sense…
What a 12-year-old prodigy can teach us
Music is integral to the human condition. A family member shared this recent ’60 minutes’ piece with me about a 12-year-old girl named Alma Deutscher who ‘speaks Mozart.’ I often talk with my clients about listening to the music and not the lyrics (i.e. paying attention to the emotions and not the content), but this young…
Fertility and Couples: An overview
“First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage.” As the old school-yard rhyme indicates, having biological children is a natural step for many heterosexual couples to take at a certain stage of their relationship. Of course, it is not always that simple. As many as 1 in 4 couples…