Not Just A Long Relationship — Long And Good

Marriage Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Longevity can be a virtue unto itself. Consider the professional who spent 40 or 50 years honing their skills, accumulating expertise gathered in no way other than through experience. Or...

Seven Signs Resentment May Be Building

Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Oh my, relationships in the beginning stages can be wonderful! Simply looking at your potential partner is a delight, and conversations never seemed so deep and meaningful. That elusive...

Stressed Out? This May Help

Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Many people use the terms “stress” and “pressure” interchangeably. Even dictionary definitions don’t help a whole in drawing distinctions between the two. But if you think about how...

Recognizing That Even Twins Are Individuals

Family Counseling Insights brought to you by Patricia McTague-Loft As if parenting weren’t hard enough, Nature seems to laugh quietly every time a pair of twins are born into the world. Ah, double the fun and… double the trouble. Unsuspecting parents are gradually...

The Evolution of Talk Therapy

Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Ever since Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung offered their somewhat competing theories of psychoanalysis at the beginning of the 20th century, people in general have been following the latest...