Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft The subject of success has fascinated people from time immemorial, and people have approached the idea from an incredible range of perspectives. In roughly the fifth century B.C., Sun Tzu...
Seven Ways To Nurture A Healthy Romantic Relationship
Marriage Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft At the end of many fairy tales the closing line is, “And they lived happily ever after.” Of course, there’s a reason that stories that end that way are called fairy tales: they’re not real....
How Much Screen Time For Your Kids Is Enough?
Family Counseling Insights brought to you by Patricia McTague-Loft It seems like the internet has been around forever. But most people probably didn’t start regularly visiting websites until 2000 or so. And who even knew what Google was back then? Beyond the internet,...
Does Socializing Leave You Exhausted? Or Exhilarated?
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Getting out and enjoying an evening with friends is one of life’s delights. And that’s true whether you’re young and single or a little older and happily involved in a long-term romantic...
Advice For Parents Of Kids 6-10
Family Counseling Insights brought to you by Patricia McTague-Loft Styles of parenting are almost as individual and unique as parents themselves. Some parents just wing it, figuring that loving their kids and providing for their basic needs is just fine, thank you....
Why We Get Angry And What To Do About It
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft In the Disney film Inside Out, Riley — the young protagonist of the film — deals with five emotions: Joy, sadness anger, fear and disgust. In the movie, each emotion actually exists as a...
Which Way To Happiness?
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft For some people happiness is not really a profound subject. They equate happiness with an emotion, a pleasant feeling you enjoy in the moment. But many serious thinkers and philosophers...
It’s Been How Long Since You Had Sex?
Marriage Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Time is an intriguing subject. Think about some notable event in your life. The time you spent on your dream vacation. Or the number of years since a loved one passed away. Or the time...
Navigating The Intricacies of Modern Relationships
Marriage Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft According to Esther Perel, psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author, couples therapy is a fairly recent development. For better or worse, couples in marriage simply endured....
How To Enhance That “Other” Kind Of Intimacy
Marriage Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Young people, naturally enough, typically have a pretty straightforward idea of intimacy, and it usually begins and ends with physical intimacy. In a mature relationship, though, intimacy...