Couples seek relationship counseling for numerous reasons. No matter what issues they present to therapy with, it often can be boiled down to a problem with the emotional safety in their relationship. The most...
Category - Healthy Relationships
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
10 Characteristics of Successful Relationships
People seeking couples counseling seek change to a relationship dynamic that isn’t working in some way. The problems can include poor communication, lack of emotional safety, resentment, trust violations and...
Rock Solid Marriage
If you’re married, you’ve probably figured out that marriage isn’t always easy. And it’s not supposed to be. Like anything, time comes with changes; shifts within the individual, relationship...
Combat Loneliness by Learning to Connect
We humans have an innate, deep need for connection with each other. It can feel great when we connect but if not, it can lead to loneliness. Inauthenticity and emotional availability are just a few of the ways people...
His Desire for His Wife To Be Happy Got Complicated
Richard Nicastro, PhD, through the eyes of “Nina,” explores what it can look like when protective love turns into hopeless frustration. — If you’re a woman in a committed relationship, I’d like you...
Richard Nicastro, PhD
Be Humble. Don’t Despair.
These are unprecedented times and we as a nation are being pulled tightly. Tensions have been exceedingly high as we waited for election results and it continues since the election was called. For months I’ve...
Now is the Time to Strengthen Your Marriage, Here are 14 Ways
This is a very hard time; our emotional health and physical well-being are being challenged in pandemic life. We are trying to figure out how to be safe, care for our children and for many, assure even basic survival...
How Will You Be Different?
As the weeks cascade into months of avoidance of our human kind to save lives, new norms are settling in. How strange to think that not so long ago seeing people with their faces covered by masks in the grocery store...
Post-Breakup: How to Know You’re Ready for Your Next Relationship
Ouch. You suffered a painful breakup and have been mourning the loss of what you thought would be and the heartfelt crush of an ego bruise. Like for many others, it can hurt! If you’ve lost someone who you felt...
#TheToolbox Best of Emotional Health and Relationships 2019
As we sail into 2020, it’s not to late to reflect a bit on what has passed. As I do every year, here are the “best of” in emotional health and relationships, the most viewed content in...