Understanding Relationships

Why Do Intimate Relationships Succeed or Fail?

Ten Habits of Successful Intimate Partners

If you have a female partner...
Understanding the Sequence
Reacting Effectively When Upsets Happen Between You and Your Partner

Core Differences in Ways of Maintaining Emotional Stability - Legimimately Different Ways of Navigating Life

But My Partner is So Extreme!
The Bottom Line

Commonly Overlooked Relationship Mistakes

If you have a male partner...
Understanding the Sequence
Reacting Effectively When Upsets Happen Between You and Your Partner
Core Differences in Ways of Maintaining Emotional Stability - Legimimately Different Ways of Navigating Life

But My Partner is So Extreme!
The Bottom Line

Commonly Overlooked Relationship Mistakes

Magazine Articles

The Love Breakthrough — From The Best of O, The Oprah Magazine
Altered States: Why Insight Isn't Enough for Lasting Change — From the Psychotherapy Networker
Brain to Brain: New Ways to Help Couples to Avoid Relapse — From the Psychotherapy Networker
The Emotional Imperative: Psychotherapists Cannot Afford to Ignore the Primacy of the Limbic Brain — From the Psychotherapy Networker

Articles in Professional Books and Journals

Pragmatic/Experiential Therapy for Couples -- from the Journal of Systemic Therapies

Rewiring Neural States in Couples Therapy: Advances from Affective Neuroscience -- from the Journal of Systemic Therapies

Rewiring Emotional Habits:  The Pragmatic/Experiential Method -- from the Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy