Author: David Helfgott, Psy.D.

The client had been away for two weeks on vacation and had initially scheduled session for the day following her return. But a few days beforehand, she called to cancel and said she would call back to reschedule. I followed up...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a session I had had with a middle age man who was struggling with several things that had begun to break down in his life, such as his health, his job, and most pressingly, his marriage. His wife...

She “bitches” at him, and normally he just takes it; he looks the other way and lets it roll off his back. In my therapy with this couple, we have been working on identifying the pattern that recurs over and over again....