by Moshe Rozdzial, LPC | Dec 19, 2025 | Abuse, Anger Management, Communication Problems, Conflict, Couple's Therapy, Criticism and Stress, Dealing with a Heterosexual Marriage, Depression Treatment, Divorce, Emotional Abuse or Neglect, PTSD, Seperation or Dissolution, Trauma, Women's Issues, Women's Mental Health Issues
Intimate partner (domestic) abuse is a pattern of physical, emotional, verbal (psychological), and sexual mistreatment to gain and maintain differential power and control within an intimate relationship. Verbal and emotional abuse in relationship are part of a range...
by Moshe Rozdzial, LPC | Dec 19, 2025 | Abuse, Anger Management, Communication Problems, Conflict, Couple's Therapy, Criticism and Stress, Depression, Emotional Abuse or Neglect, Gay Men's Mental Health, Gay Relationships, Gay Sexuality, GLBT, Internalized Homophobia, LGBT, LGBT Power and Positioning, Power Differences, PTSD, Resentment, Hurt, or Anger, Sexual Orientation, Substance Abuse & Alcohol Abuse, Trauma, Violence and partner abuse in the GLBT community
Intimate partner abuse exempts no race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, sexual orientation or social status. On a daily basis, issues of dominance, power, and control in relationships are rooted in the oppressive systems to which we are all conditioned. Heterosexual...
by Moshe Rozdzial, LPC | Dec 19, 2025 | Anxiety and Stress, Depression, PTSD, Resentment, Hurt, or Anger, Trauma
Our mind and body are constantly on alert to self-protect, scanning the environment for potential hurts. This is the essence of worry: projecting, preparing, and rehearsing a future danger that’s rooted in past painful experience, witnessing, or perceived...
by Moshe Rozdzial, LPC | Dec 19, 2025 | Communication Problems, Conflict, Couple's Therapy, Criticism and Stress, Divorce, Gay Relationships
Other than obvious major relationship problems, such as physical violence, emotional, psychological or sexual abuse or affairs, many relationship problems are much more subtle or indirect. Yet, they may suggest that there are underlying unresolved issues that continue...
by Moshe Rozdzial, LPC | Dec 19, 2025 | Couple's Therapy, Men's Mental Health Issues, Sex Therapy, Women's Mental Health Issues
A healthy relationship requires the ability to tolerate and deal with conflict in a respectful way that maintains personal dignity and avoids hurt and wounding. Conflict is normal and teaches us about our differences. The skills of friendly conflict require a couple...
