By Amir Levine, PhD, LCSW-R, Co-Founder & Clinical Director Bhava Therapy Group Explore the Connection Between Emotional Needs and Political Beliefs The therapy room may not be an ideal forum for debating different political policies, yet it is an opportune...
How do you feel about aging? What does it bring up for you? This month marks my 49th birthday and so naturally the topic of aging is upfront and center in my brain. While traveling this road to 49, I’ve had waves of different feelings and beliefs flow through me...
We have been fielding a lot of concerns, ambivalence, indecisiveness from our clients over how to manage family traditions and relationships during this Thanksgiving. People are feeling the squeeze between fears of unintentionally spreading the virus, disappointment...
As time drags on in this pandemic limbo, relationship tensions are rising and pouring out and all over one another and not always in the healthiest of ways. Heightened emotionality, lashing out at one another at the slightest rub, or alternatively checking out and...
We are in the midst of a global pandemic and there is nothing “Normal” about this. So let’s stop referring to this period of time we find ourselves living in as our “New Normal”? Normal implies experiences that are expected and typical with respect to a certain...
Now What? Reflections on Life Now as It Is…. This is real. Life as we knew it is shutting down and we find ourselves more and more shut off from one another. We are in the middle of a pandemic and suddenly, abruptly our lives are becoming what we have only seen on...