Were You A Parental Child?
One of the fathers of family therapy Salvador Minuchin coined the term parental child during the 1960s. It refers to a role reversal between parent and child. A parental child may suffer from psychological...
Irem Bray's Family Guidance Journal
A Consulting Psychologist and Family Counselor Shares Her Knowledge On-line
One of the fathers of family therapy Salvador Minuchin coined the term parental child during the 1960s. It refers to a role reversal between parent and child. A parental child may suffer from psychological...
Healthy relationships need productive conflict to grow. However many people associate conflict with arguments, falling out, losing control and being rejected. Read on to learn all about overcoming fear of conflict through some concrete...
In our mobile world millions of people live in a place where they are not born. What happens to their kids? These children are a growing community, they are called Cross-cultural (CCK) or Third...
There’s sleep, and there’s good sleep. Many people are not aware of all the negative influences of not sleeping well have on their health. Here is how to get the best out of your...
Children thrive when they are surrounded by adults who are emotionally present. Childhood Emotional Neglect One of my followers wanted me to elaborate on how she can know if she is an emotionally present...
I know many people mostly men, but also women, who are unable to commit to their partner. Their fear is to be ‘taken over’ by him or her and lose their primary connection with...
Two gentlemen wanted my help to reconnect with their emotions. They both suffer from angry outbursts and are criticised by their partners for lacking emotion’. They are in their late thirties; well educated and...
Enmeshment is the term we use in Family Therapy that refers to an extreme closeness between all, or certain, members of a family. When relationships are enmeshed boundaries are so blurred that this creates...
We know that female virginity has been the focus of human kind for centuries and a lot of men and women have suffered around this subject. What is more interesting however is that the...
Most people would agree that life as a couple has the potential to deliver the highest fulfillment as well as the deepest despair. I counsel a lot of couples at different stages of their...