Women’s Issues 
Perfectionism: Pursuit of the Ideal by Justin Stum, LMFT (0)
Find yourself setting unreasonable demands on yourself as a spouse or parent? Do you feel like you’ll never measure up at your job? Do you expect too much from your spouse, maybe your children? Or do you notice you are often feeling disappointed or upset if you don’t accomplish everything on your to-do-list? Have others [...]
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Women and Stress: The Two Do Not Need to Go Together by Susan Liddy, CPCC
Today’s 21st century woman is under a lot of pressure. These days, women have MANY roles and responsibilities. We are moms, corporate employees, business owners, wives, girlfriends, scout troop leaders, PTA members, cheerleading coaches, dog walkers, and a whole lot of other things. We cook breakfasts, lunches and dinners. We delegate tasks, sit in traffic; [...]
Women: How to Get Your Mojo Back
Recently I’ve been inspired by the writings and attidude of Lissa Rankin, OB/GYN, artist, author and founder of OwningPink - who is passionate about women reclaiming - and celebrating – their mojo. To Lissa, helping people is less about “fixing” them and more about empowering them to thrive which I can relate to in my own psychotherapy practice which is focused on helping [...]
Work and Motherhood: A Clinical Study by Jennifer Stuart, Ph.D.
Most women face real financial and practical obstacles to the integration of work and family life, and we encounter these challenges in a climate of cultural ambivalence toward working mothers. In this context, decisions about work and motherhood can become a lightning rod, attracting and concentrating expressions of unconscious conflict. Meanwhile, personal decisions about work [...]
