A colleague who runs a clinic recently attended a management seminar. She described one point about passive-aggressiveness in the work place, and the seminar leader’s instructions were to ask the employee 5 different ways why that person was behaving in a passive-aggressive manner. Sounds on the surface like a reasonable […]
Daily Archives: April 29, 2014
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As we are approaching the season for graduations, there are many reasons to pause for reflection. Typically, milestones such as graduation, certain birthdays (18, 21, 30, 40, 50, etc), life events (birth of a sibling, birth of a child, marriage or partnership commitment, illness, divorce, etc) are all causes […]
(Borges and) The Exquisite Vulnerability of Being Known Simplicity for Haydee Lange The garden gate is opened as easily as a turned page questioned by a regular devotion and once inside, our gazes have no need to fix on objects that already exist completely in memory. I am familiar with […]
Anxiety is a problem which has many faces. Many times we do not even know we are experiencing anxiety. To make matters even worse, when we don’t know we are anxious, we cannot deal with the problem, respond appropriately, or deal with our mate properly. What does anxiety look like? […]
Here is a “Top 10” list of tips that can help you improve your relationship. These tips come from our experience with individual, couples and group therapy. Here goes: 1. Don’t blame your partner. Often times we expect our partner to be perfect (despite the fact that we are […]
“I lost my job the other day. Well, it’s not that I lost my job, but when I got there, there was some other guy doing it.” Comedian Bob “Bobcat” Goldthwait. This is something of the experience of the older sibling. It was his/her place, to be the prince/princess, the […]
Marriage/commitment can be a wonderful thing. We all hope to find the perfect person, to live “happily ever after.” In our culture, we have few examples of happy couples. If we are lucky, we have encountered some growing up. Sometimes, not. What happens after ‘the big day’? The excitement of […]
Welcome to the San Francisco Counseling Center Main Blog. We are a group of psychotherapists dedicated to providing high quality therapy. We have in common some basic beliefs about how the mind works, the importance of past experiences and a real passion for doing this work. We also have very […]