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Notes on Relationships, Family, and Emotional Health
Reflections and practical guidance from Carolyn S. Riviere, LMFT, on the everyday realities of relationships, family life, and mental health.
Individual Therapy
Understanding and Managing Anxiety
The Connection Between Anxiety and Depression Anxiety and depression are two of the most common mental health conditions — and they often appear together. This ...
Couples & marriage therapy
What Happens to the High of the First Few Years of a Relationship? Is This Really as Good as It Gets?
In the early years of a relationship, love feels like a rush — exciting, effortless, and intoxicating. But as time passes, that initial high often ...
Individual Therapy
Making Time Meaningful in a Fast-Moving World
Why Time Feels Like It’s Moving Faster As we grow older, it’s common to feel that the years pass more quickly than they once did.Psychologists ...
Parenting
When college kids come home for Christmas: therapist guidance for parents and family systems
As a Marriage and Family therapist, we believe in 5 major life cycles that we as humans, experience from birth to end of life. One ...
Couples & marriage therapy
Life Transitions and How to Stay Connected as a Couple and Family
In the world of family therapy, there’s a recurring theme I hear from many couples: the early years of raising young children can be the ...
Relationships
Male and Female Sexual Dysfunction in America: Why Are So Many Couples Not Having Sex?
Introduction As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), I have had the privilege of working with over 12,000 couples in the Denver Tech Center ...
Couples & marriage therapy
If You Find Yourselves Caught in the Same Fight, Different Day: Understanding and Overcoming Destructive Couple Cycling
Every couple experiences conflict, but when you find yourselves caught in the same fight—what I often refer to as “Same Fight, Different Day”—it can feel ...
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