Individual Counseling insights brought to you by Westlake Village-based California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. It’s a good thing that almost all of us worry. Think of worry as a built-in alarm device. When it is used wisely, it alerts us to danger and prompts us...
The Influence of Birth Order
Individual Counseling insights brought to you by Westlake Village-based California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Birth Order Affects Our Behavior and Relationships If brothers and sisters are raised by the same parents, how do they end up so different? How is it...
Distortions in Your Body Image
Individual Counseling insights brought to you by Westlake Village-based California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. “What disturbs people’s minds is not events, but their judgments on events.” – Epictetus In China, parents once bound the feet of their daughters in...
Men and Depression
Individual Counseling insights brought to you by Westlake Village-based California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. The incidence of depression in our society seems to be on the rise. Recent estimates suggest that as many as one in three of us will experience some...
Sometimes It Takes More Than Love
Marriage Counseling insights brought to you by Westlake Village-based California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. When we make a commitment to our partner, our usual expectation is that our relationship will last for life and that our love will see us through the...
Social Support and Friendship
Good Friendships Depend Less on Who They Are Than On How They Make Us Feel Individual Counseling insights brought to you by Westlake Village-based California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Since 1985 the number of people who say they have no one to talk to has...
The Healthy Pursuit of Pleasure
Engaging in Simple, Healthy Pleasures Can Restore Balance to Our Hectic Lives Individual Counseling insights brought to you by Westlake Village-based California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Pleasure guides us to better health. When experiences are enjoyable, we...
Weight Management
Individual Counseling insights brought to you by Westlake Village-based California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Obesity is at epidemic proportions in the United States and most Westernized countries. If you are overweight, you are hardly alone, as you can see by...
Distorted Thoughts… Getting Back to Reality
Individual Counseling insights brought to you by Westlake Village-based California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. One of the best tools we have for living a healthy life is our ability to think. Our world is composed of a large number of events that happen...
Relationships and Manipulation
Marriage Counseling insights brought to you by Westlake Village-based California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. We are all vulnerable to being manipulated in relationships, whether between romantic partners, friends, parents, children, employers, coworkers, or...