Postpartum Depression Is Real

Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Are you pretty good at spotting a new Mom? You know — she’s the young woman who looks like she hasn’t slept in days, giggles for no reason and then suddenly runs off with a frantic...

Better Than Speed Reading

Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Do you remember Reader’s Digest Magazine? Decades ago you could find it on the racks of nearly every grocery store checkout aisle. The Digest is actually still around, but in the digital...

Why, Exactly, Do We Procrastinate?

Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft  If you’re like 99 percent of the human race, you might find yourself putting things off when you know you should be doing them. One day scientists will discover there is actually a...

Turning Dreams Into Reality

Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. “Ambition” is such a wonderfully complex concept. It begins with something like desire. You imagine or see something you’d like to be, at the same time developing a...

Essential Reading For Success

Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Some books stand the test of time. Take the bestseller Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill. He spent 20 years researching 40 millionaires, trying to find commonalities that...

The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good

Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Striving to do the best you can at every job you undertake seems like a good thing, at least on the surface. After all, the old aphorism seems to be true: Any job worth...

Making The Pitch To Work From Home

Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. After two years of scrambling to keep up with changing corporate policy, office workers may have discovered something: You like working from home! If that’s the case, now may...

Burned Out At Work? This May Help.

Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. For ambitious and motivated people, work and career can be an enormous source of satisfaction — and stress. Over the last two years that simple fact has become even more...