Why Is My Teenager So Difficult? What Brain Science Says About Parenting Adolescents
Your teen's brain is under construction. A therapist's guide to parenting teenagers and brain development: natural consequences, and coaching over controlling.
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Written companions to episodes of Behind the Therapy Door, the podcast where Affinity Consultants therapists take on the questions people would only ask their therapist. Each article expands on a single episode with practical takeaways rooted in the Process Communication Model (PCM) and clinical experience. Read them standalone or use them alongside the audio.
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Why Do I Keep Choosing the Wrong Partner? How Attachment Styles Shape Every Relationship
Keep picking the wrong partner? Learn how the four attachment styles in relationships form, why anxious and avoidant pair up, and how…
Why Can’t I Stop Reliving the Past? How Trauma Gets Stuck and What Actually Helps
Flashbacks that feel like now? Learn how trauma gets stored in the body and which trauma therapy techniques -- EMDR, brainspotting, somatic…
What Does Starting Therapy Actually Feel Like? A Therapist’s Honest Guide
Wondering what to expect when starting therapy? Two therapists share the honest truth about first-session fear, finding the right fit, and how…
Why Am I Always the One Who’s Wrong? How Both/And Thinking Transforms Relationships
Tired of feeling like the one who is always wrong? See how both/and thinking helps relationships hold two truths at once and…
Why Do I Keep Having the Same Fight With My Partner? Understanding Distress Patterns
Stuck arguing about the same thing again and again? Learn what fuels recurring relationship conflict and how spotting distress patterns breaks the…
Why Do Couples Keep Miscommunicating? What the Process Communication Model® Reveals
Do you and your partner keep talking past each other? See how communication styles in relationships work and why the Process Communication…
Why Does My Child Seem to Lack Empathy? How Personality Types Explain Different Wiring
Worried your child seems to lack empathy? Learn how personality types in children shape emotional wiring and how parents can finally connect…