ELAINE KORNGOLD, LPC | Certified Brainspotting Therapist and Approved Consultant | Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist | Certified in Trauma, ADHD, Autism Counseling | Career Counseling, Financial Therapy | 503-770-0810 | AskCounseling@outlook.com
One-third of women experience birth trauma, often during preventable situations. The experience can leave the new mother traumatized and unwilling to have any more children, even though she and her partner may have previously discussed having more. A “one and … Read more
We are told many contradictory things about money that result in complicating our thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Here is an entertaining article that describes money tips from the New York Times readers’ ideas on managing family money and keeping families … Read more
Here is a wonderful TEDx talk (20 minutes) where Julie Gottman gives an overview of Gottman Method Couples therapy and how it applies to dealing with perpetual and resolvable conflicts in the home. My clients will recognize the Gottman-Rapoport exercise … Read more
The article below says: troubled relationships are all too common among adults with unmanaged ADHD. Although ADHD afflicts millions of adults, it remains under-diagnosed – only about 10 percent of adults who met the diagnostic criteria for ADHD had been … Read more
Here is a wonderful article that describe how John and Julie Gottman talk about how they met and fell in love, and how they follow their own advice to keep their relationship special: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/fashion/weddings/marriage-therapists-who-follow-their-own-advice.html
The sad situation described in this article is that a nationwide online study of 25,000 American adults found that while “just over two-fifths of respondents (41%) report spending less than their income, 36% spend about EQUAL to their income, and 19% … Read more
Each year, hundreds of thousands of couples go into counseling in an effort to save their troubled relationships. But does marital therapy work? Not nearly as well as it should, researchers say. Two years after ending counseling, studies find, 25 percent … Read more
In sessions with couples using Gottman Method therapy, I often quote various research statistics from the Gottman Institute. For example, most relationship problems (69%) never get resolved but are “perpetual” problems based on personality differences between partners. For these types of … Read more
Financial infidelity is when one partner is making financial decisions or moves without the knowlege of the other partner, endangering the financial future of the couple and undermining trust and commitment, the load-bearing walls of the Sound Relationship House (the … Read more
Here is an excellent list of 12 roadblocks to listening; these can negatively impact communication at home and at work – https://www.gordontraining.com/leadership/warning-communication-roadblocks-can-hazardous-relationships/