For anyone who is interested in the facts about the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict, here is a very summarized version, including some...

This post is adapted from my weekly schmoozeletter. When I was a kid, many of our religious teachers were first and second generation...

As part of the intake process with new clients, one of the questions I always ask is: "Have you ever been to therapy before?" I like to...

(This post is adapted from a special edition schmoozeletter.) Last week, I posted what seems to have been a polarizing opinion on social...

Were you taught to believe that “divorce” is a curse word? That we don’t even say the “d” word? When I was a young, idealistic grad...

This will be a short, but I believe, very important post: One of the many awful results of inadequate, misinformed, or nonexistent sex...

A few years ago, I was speaking with a high school student who was struggling with her faith. She told me that she’d learned some...

Trigger Warning: This post contains sensitive content about child sexual abuse. *Like all vignettes featured in this blog, it reflects...

Some men say it with embarrassment, others with indignance or frustration, and still others in defeat: “I’m not trying to be demanding or...

I really, really like pizza- it’s probably my favorite meal. In my neighborhood we have about half a dozen different pizza shops. My...

When I was a kid, there was this corny joke that made the rounds in our Jewish schools and camps. It went something like this: Joker: I...

Ruth has been at war with her own body since middle school. She and her sisters reacted emotionally in different ways to the stress and...

“I was taught that my husband’s purity and holiness are basically my responsibility. As long as we can ‘be together,’ that saves him from...

Is it just me or does it feel like there are ads for coaching everywhere lately? Do you ever wonder what the difference is between...

Have you ever noticed that some people will swear that therapy totally changed their lives for the better, and others will say they’ve...

Have you ever wondered how often people engage in sexual activity? Or how often is optimal for healthy, happily married couples to aim for? (I purposely used the euphemism “be intimate” in the title because often, people who ask this question in the framework of “supposed to” are uncomfortable with the more direct language of “have sex.” They may prefer to say things like : “be together, do it, make love, have relations, etc.” Whatever works:) Couples therapists get this ques

At the root of so many people’s questions, doubts, insecurities and fears, lies this niggling question: Am I normal? And it shows up in a...

For so many couples, this is their million-dollar question. Hope for their relationship, for their future, hinges on the answer....

Couples therapy is intense work. Back in grad school, I had a professor say: “We’re not in the business of saving marriages. We’re in the...

(This was originally published in the Five Towns Jewish Times) When my oldest was two years old, he attended a half day playgroup. One...