Your relationship with your therapist is different then any kind of relationship you have had whether in person or by telephone. Sharing between friends and with family members is about mutual give-and-take. Your relationship with a psychologist is different! Psychotherapy helps you think mindfully about you. With whom do you have a relationship where you [...]
A Liminal Blog Space
Help! What’s Going on in my Infant’s Mind?! Reflective Parenting
Answer: "A lot!" Learn Reflective Parenting -- A 30 second Self-Help Introduction –- -------- Yes, infants DO have minds! and, They remember! However, their memory is a different kind of memory then adult use. It forms the basis of later kinds of learning, language and development. Yes, your infant knows and recognizes you, better then [...]
The Benefits Of Private Pay For Psychotherapy
Does the saying fit? You get what you pay for? Over recent years psychotherapy is less stigmatized. Many people are benefiting from the potentially life-changing effects of a meaningful psychotherapy and opt to be selective in their choice of a psychologist to provide continuity in the therapy work. Here are fifteen reasons to consider private [...]
Defining Moments
Moments Come by chance, a meeting followed by a parting, and then meeting again. In moments shared, and then alone, continuity is strung together and longings reconciled. +++ Therapy is a process, a journey in time, that matters we glimpse what we are and may become. +++ (Copyright: Susan Barbour, Ed.D. All Rights Reserved) Susan [...]
Beginning Anew
One of the reasons I called my blog a "liminal blog space" is because liminal means threshold. Coming to therapy is just such a threshold -- a beginning and/or beginning anew. The first hello marks a transition for you, between what "was" and who you have been, and what you may become. Deeper therapeutic processes [...]