by Dr.Anne | Nov 24, 2022 | Mental Wellness, Professional Wellbeing
I recently had a bizarre experience where a ‘potential’ client was bad-mouthing me on a post I’d made under my professional page, and then in the next breath, sent me a private DM asking for help. Now here we face a variety of dilemmas: financial, identity, and moral...
by Dr.Anne | Nov 5, 2022 | Abuse, Conflict Divorce, Difficult Divorce, Divorce, Law Firms, Mental Wellness, Narcissism, Therapy, Trauma, Unhealthy Relationships
This is a relatively common and murky issue for my female clients: how to deal with ongoing communication in their difficult divorces. As the ladies I work with are coming out of marriages characterized by incredibly unhealthy relationship dynamics, for many the ideal...
by Dr.Anne | Nov 4, 2022 | Difficult Divorce, Divorce, Mental Wellness, Professional Wellbeing, Therapy, Trauma, Unhealthy Relationships
How you answer this question is a good indicator of your outcome in therapy. If you answer: 1. I would wait for someone to ‘give me’ the answer 2. I would wait for the professionals to take ‘reponsibility’ 3. I would wait until ‘I...
by Dr. Anne | Aug 11, 2022 | Business, Law Firms, Mental Wellness, Professional Wellbeing, Therapy
In his book “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.” Sociologist Erving Goffman uses the metaphor of the stage to argue that much of our self-presentation is performative. We have the backstage and the frontstage. When working with professionals this...
by Dr. Anne | Aug 8, 2022 | Mental Wellness, Therapy
When you work with relationship issues you have to get used to dealing with pretty much anything that comes your way. Now admittedly the vast majority of my clients are women, but just occasionally I get a man who decides ‘enough is enough’ about something...
by Dr. Anne | Aug 5, 2022 | Mental Wellness, Professional Wellbeing, Therapy
Today I was discussing my hypnotherapy work with a struggling lady. Like most potential clients she wasn’t really sure if it was for her and wanted to know more about it. No easy task I can assure you. It is really hard to get across to clients that of all the...
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