Will this be the shortest blog post ever written?? The answer is: emotions. Right?? Well, in some sense yes, but there is surely more that complicates parenting than meets the eye. If you are a parent reading this, then you know that and probably winced when you read that first simplistic sentence. While this post is written from a clinician perspective, not a parents, and likely will attempt to categorize some of the complexities into a neat little picture, I also wanted to gain a parental…
Year: 2017
Private Practice Woes
Dream, dream, dream… Isn’t it the dream of every aspiring young psychologist to be in private practice? Working for yourself, building your own legacy? But what does this really mean? As incredible as it might sound at first glance, a private practice can be an expensive and lonely endeavour, at least in the beginning. If you truly desire that independence, it may still be worth it though! From personal experience, I can say that the independence is a definite plus. I’ve personally been lucky enough in most of my jobs to…
Social Dynamics – Changing Problematic Patterns
Many issues between couples, parent-child relationships, friends, and colleagues, have to do with problematic patterns in communication and interactions. As humans, with human intentions and human needs, we enter most situations with some purpose. Occasionally, this purpose is known by one of the persons in the exchange; but very often a person enters into a conversation or situation without explicit insight into even their own true intentions and needs. Each exchange with another human carries with it numerous underlying factors. Not only are we dealing with the specific words being exchanged, but…