Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft In the natural world, cause and effect is not always clear cut. We see an effect and wonder why something is happening. For a striking example that is continuously unfolding today, look...
Keeping Depression From Being A Career Roadblock
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft People who suffer from depression confront a variety of challenges. One issue that rarely gets the attention it deserves is how depression affects a person’s career. Major depressive...
Tips For Moving On When You Really Need To
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Here’s a pop quiz for you: when you’re daydreaming or just sitting quietly with a moment to spare, do you think more about the future, the present moment or the past? In any of these...
Denial, Repression and Other Wonderful Self Defenses
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Have you ever thought about the situations or relationships that have helped you grow in any respect – emotionally, psychologically, spiritually or simply as a human being? Without going...
One Thing That Can Make Breaking Up Even Worse
Marriage Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Ending a romantic relationship is never easy, for either of the people involved. Emotions usually run high, at least on the part of one of the partners. Occasionally one partner has already...
Spreading the Joy
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft English is a wonderful language. From its roots in the old Angles and Saxons warring with each other and on through the Romans and Normans, it has absorbed Latin and French influences...
Moving On After A Breakup
Marriage Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft If you’ve been in a long-term relationship that ended amicably — “we’re still friends” — then you may have caught yourself developing some harmless habits. Such as checking into your ex’s...
How To Have A Happier Mother’s Day
Family Counseling Insights brought to you by Patricia McTague-Loft Happy Mother’s Day! To all you Moms out there celebrating the day with family and friends, I wish you a day filled with joy. Now, here’s a question for you — after the obligatory “Happy Mother’s Day,”...
The Many Nuances Of Childhood Trauma
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Having you ever been cruising along the freeway listening to your favorite radio station and seen someone get cut off by some rude or oblivious driver? Of course, we all have. But the...
The Pursuit of Happiness
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Throughout history, some of the greatest minds have expressed their thoughts about a subject most everyone is interested in: happiness. Abraham Lincoln summed up his view by saying,...