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Dear friends and colleagues,
I am writing to you on July 20th, 2019. Today is exactly 15 years from the day ...
Parenting brings with it challenges, quandaries, hilarity, and joy. Hopefully, joy wins out and the quandaries are ...
The day I gave birth for the first time, my oldest child
emerged into the room, into the world, and into my arms, ...
No one wants to feel pain. At least that’s true for most of us. In fact, a good number of us make the decision to
The process of therapy can be daunting, especially when we don’t really understand what it’s “supposed” to look ...
I was recently thinking about sessions over the course of the last few weeks that went smoothly, and those where I ...
I was reading an article in the Chicago Tribune today about Barry Manilow, his recent public “coming out,” and ...
I was talking with a colleague who recently completed her graduate degree in counseling. We were discussing one of
“Will it be a tree or a new garden?” my partner asked me two weeks ago. For the past 15 years, we have been ...
News reports, radio, and the internet have been highlighting a recent letter sent to incoming undergraduates from ...
More and more I hear people asking for trigger warnings when there is a chance something someone may say or do will
Published Works
This is a transcript of the keynote address presented on September 24, 2006 at the Oregon Juvenile Department ...
Reprinted from In The Family Magazine, Volume 8, Number 4, Spring 2003, pp. 4-5.
Q: At work, a sales award was ...
Reprinted from the Illinois Society for Clinical Social Work Newsletter, Summer 2008, pp.12-15.
Preface to the ...
Reprinted from Illinois Parks and Recreation, January/February 1989, pp. 20-21.
Residential treatment for ...
Reprinted from In The Family Magazine, Volume 10, Number 4, Spring 2005, pp. 6-8.
When we talk about homophobia ...
Reprinted from Positively Aware Magazine, June/July 2005
Studies from around the world, with both men and women, ...
Even now, at the end of the twentieth century, many still have difficulty standing up and saying, "I am the parent ...
How We Can Hurt and Be Hurt and Never Know It
Reprinted from Positively Aware.
WITH ADVANCES in HIV medications, ...
Reprinted from Positively Aware, March/April 2008, pp. 40-43.
I'm here because my doctor referred me to you," ...
Reprinted from Positively Aware, September/October, pp. 40-42.
HIV: Either of two retroviruses that invent and ...
Reprinted from In The Family Magazine, July 1998, pp. 22-24.
Celia was referred to me by a colleague who was ...
Reprinted from In The Family Magazine, Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 2002, pp. 8-11.
"You don't need any special ...