Stress and time management

Set boundaries and limits with others … Be more realistic in your goal- setting … Schedule time for your commitments, the same way you do for appointments with others … Always leave room for mental refueling … Control your environment better … Learn these techniques and more.

Drugs/Alcohol, Eating Disorders

Change your thinking before trying to change self-defeating behaviors … Learn how stopping undesirable behaviors is much less complicated than the psychiatric business leads you to believe … Learn to accept that you do have free will and, like it or not, you are doing these self-destructive things, but that you can stop … See how to look for what psychology calls secondary gain -- that is, what you subjectively get out of doing these things even though on the surface they seem irrational.

Sexual Issues

Getting past the idea of what’s normal, which simply means what most people are doing (something we don’t even know since people are rarely frank and open about sex) … Replace the idea of being normal in sexuality with the idea of doing what objectively serves your interest, and the interest of your partner … Understand that sexual dysfunction (e.g. impotence) is not usually a medical problem so much as your subconscious mind’s way of saying, “Pay attention to something here!” … How to better value and enjoy sex, on the one hand, but at the same time recognize that sex is not the only value in romantic relationships (heresy in today’s culture) …

Procrastination

See how procrastination is usually a sign that you have been over-thinking and under-acting … Learn why the question, “Why do I procrastinate?” is the most counter-productive one to ask yourself … Better understand the importance of integrating thought and action, mind and body … How to take small steps to reverse the procrastination process immediately … Analyze what you subjectively get out of procrastinating, irrational as you insist (on the surface) that it is …

Relationship/Family Issues

Learn how the first rule of relationships is a healthy “I,” rather than the absence of a self (as we have all been taught) … Learn too that respecting the other’s equal right to an “I” is crucially important … Find ways to cope with the fact that you simply cannot and will never change or mold somebody else into the person you feel you want them to be, and that most efforts to do so end in disaster … Discover the subtle but crucial differences between rational parenting versus either permissive or authoritarian parenting, both of which involve the same basic underlying error … Learn the rewards of treating personal/family life as a value to the same degree you treat financial and career life as top values.

Depression/Anxiety

Discover -- surprise! -- why there’s really no such thing as depression, as it is currently defined at least ... and see how to identify and solve your problems in a completely different way from what the psychiatric industry has been attempting up to now, through its nearly nonexistent “treatment” … Learn how anxiety without a reason usually means there is a big reason: having convinced yourself that you are unfit to live and cope, even though there is probably much evidence to the contrary … Discover how to become an independent judge of reality rather than a passive recipient of what others tell you to do and think … And much more you won’t find at the usual therapist office.

Grief/Loss/Divorce

Learn how to weather these rough periods, and most of all accept that they are temporary transitions to something better if you approach it this way … Discover how destructive it is to keep a relationship in a half-way state, somewhere between broken up and still together … Why all-or-nothing approaches to relationships ultimately lead to success, despite what most psychologists teach … See how being single has its advantages and a period of singlehood can pave the way for a very happy relationship down the road …

Periodic "Emotional Tune Ups" to Help Maintain and Build on Your Therapeutic Successes

See how therapy and counseling is not a passive process which does something “to” you, like surgery does … Rather, see how therapy is a single conversation, or perhaps a series of many conversations over time, with an objective party outside of your personal life … A conversation with someone who does not tell you what to do, but rather how to better trust your mind and judgment to determine this for yourself … Grasp how therapy essentially means change and growth, where necessary, and that this is a life-long process (of which counseling/therapy/consultation is only one means to this greater end) …