Rosh Hashanah, the New School Year, and a Fresh Beginning
Whether you celebrate Rosh Hashanah or participate in the new school year in any way, they can provide helpful markers for reflection and a new start.
Why It’s Important to Get to the Root of Your Emotions
New psychoanalytic research demonstrates how needs and emotions are connected.
I Miss You Already, Summer
It’s time to say farewell to summer and hello to fall (and all the emotions that elicits).
Love Addiction & Co-dependency: Essential Classification, Restrictive Label or Both?
Just when you thought love and sex can’t get more complicated, they do.
Avoidance and Procrastination
The real question isn’t whether procrastination is a problem; it’s whether it’s truly sustainable.
Dreaming with our Mothers
We have all been with our mothers for every experience, struggle, relationship, victory and every dream she had ever dreamed until we came into being in the world through our own physical birth.
Marketing & Psychotherapy Practice
Please join us for a weekend therapy marketing boot camp to learn concrete tools to establish and market your psychotherapy practice.
Therapy as Ritual: Boundless and Contained
Rituals allow us to meld the familiar with the unknown. Much like therapy.
(Not Necessarily) Happy Mother’s Day
Along with feelings of love, gratitude and celebration of the mothers in our lives, many of us also experience feelings of sadness, grief and anger.
Waze of Getting There
As with our beloved LA traffic, so with life—just because you run into detours, construction sites, and twisty hilly roads doesn’t mean you won’t eventually get to your destination.
Hitting the Right Notes in Later Life
Beloved, busy and joyful Maestro Herbert Blomstedt is an inspiration to all of us on finding and creating meaning and passion in later life.
The Transformative Power of Group Therapy
Through group therapy, despite the initial dread that most of us feel, we can discover ourselves through a community…
Growing Mommies
This post introduces the new mommies group that WILA offers, as explained in a recent interview by its very own co-facilitators.
The Beginning is the End is the Beginning.
Being bored is boring. But why is it so hard to change it up?
When achieving your goals gets confusing
So you’ve reached your most recent goal or huge deadline. Now what?