What are Good Therapeutic Disclosure Questions?

When you discover your partner’s sex or love addiction, you want to want to know everything. This usually yields conversations late into the night, rehashing the past in an effort to seek safety and make sense of the past. I like to call these conversations drive-by disclosure. It is profoundly disorienting to doubt your own history. Enter the formal therapeutic disclosure process, aimed at restoring dignity and providing information so you can make informed decisions about your future. (You can read more about that process here)

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Boundaries for Beginners

Boundaries. A popular therapy & self-care buzz word that’s thrown around all the time. Often boundaries are presented with the metaphor of a fence separating your yards from your neighbors. You are responsible to water your own garden & take care of what’s in your yard, regardless of what’s going on in your neighbors’ side. That’s lovely, but what does that mean?

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Hello, Downtown Oakland!

I am thrilled to announce the launch of my private practice & new therapy office location in downtown Oakland, California! I have a spacious, peaceful office space in a secure office building within walking distance of many downtown Oakland office locations + public transportation (12th & 19th Street BART + AC Transit), and just a few blocks from Lake Merritt.

Take a peak at my new office here.

Can’t wait to see you in my new space!

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