Articles about Family

The challenges we face in life are not ours alone, they are shared across multiple generations. You may think of it as your emotional inheritance.

Your father gave you a lot, but he couldn’t give to you or your siblings what he didn’t receive in the first place. This Father’s Day, focus on what he did right, what he...

Over the years, I’ve learned to incorporate what the body remembers, our earliest experiences that while we don’t consciously remember them, have a profound influence on ...

Maybe you too can relate to life’s unexpected twists and turns. Often what is most painful in life can be the strongest catalyst for transformation.

Have you ever wondered why you and your partner come up against the same issues again and again, no matter how much work you put into resolving them?

Feelings that are kept locked away in our body can harden our hearts, break our spirits and keep us stuck in patterns of imbalance and unease. So what do we do when a str...

There is a way to live a happy marriage life but we need to learn how. Love is not just a feeling, is work in progress!

Leaving home can bring relief, but it can also uncover a quieter mix of longing and loss that isn’t always easy to name.

Psychoanalysts are seeing a sharp rise in extramarital affairs among couples. Why do we really have affairs outside marriage, and is social media making them more prevale...

How can a couple use fighting as a tool to grow closer together and rekindle the spark?

A short paper introducing key clinical concepts in the systemic and social constructionist perspectives

Over the years, I have been struck by how commonly it emerges that patients have been sexually abused by their own mothers, sometimes flagrantly, sometimes in the guise o...