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...
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...
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,...
Hidden Opportunities
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Traumatic events come in all sizes and shapes. When we’re young, they can affect us in an entirely different way than they would as an adult. A child who is uprooted from their school...
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...
Light Drinking – What’s The Harm?
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft From our high school and college days on most of us are surrounded by people toasting or celebrating with everything from champagne to fancy cocktails. Throw in the constant stream of...
Forget “Hi, How Are You?”
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Have you ever asked someone how they’re doing and gotten an in-depth and personal answer about some intimate family matter? Probably not, but if you have you probably thought to yourself...