What do lawyers and couples have in common? Are you guilty of bombarding your partner with questions you already know the answer to, to try and prove a point? Check out this video from Irene Schreiner at Solid Foundations Therapy to learn how you can recognize and redirect these negative behaviors while communicating with your partner. Your relationship will thank you!

June's monthly therapy moment is from Robyn, staff therapist at Solid Foundations Therapy . She discusses why allowing your partner to come home and unload (even through it might feel like complaining), is beneficial to your relationship. It helps better your communication and makes your partner feel understood. Let us know in the comments if you try this with your significant other.

Burnout, it’s a term we hear often in our society.  You get burned out emotionally, physically, and mentally when we are under excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs often times when you are feeling overwhelmed and drained. It can occur in any part of our lives - at work, at school, or even in our relationship. Being burned out in any one area of our life can lead to a lack of motivation and issues in the other areas of our lives

Relationship burnout can happen to any of us.

Check out the latest video from Breanna Mann, staff therapist at Solid Foundations Therapy. She discusses the challenges that couples face when setting boundaries with extended family members and provides some tips to overcome those challenges.

As soon as you enter a relationship, you no longer have just yourself to think about. You now have to keep in consideration the needs of your partner. In order for your relationship to be successful, you must know how to meet those needs in a way to best serve your partner. That goes along with know how to best serve the goals and aspirations of your partner as well. Since being in a relationship means that you are a cohesive unit, it is not only in your partner’s best interest, but yours as well to support them in whatever journey they embark on. Think of their success as your success. Their happiness as your happiness.

We all want our relationships to be successful. After all, if we are entering into a relationship with the belief that it will fail, then what is the point?  Unfortunately, things do happen.

The reality is that sometimes relationships fail, sometimes due to things we have done wrong or other times due to  circumstances seemingly outside of our control. One thing we can control is how quickly we get help.

Check out why Irene Schreiner, LMFT things that asking the question "how was your day?" actually lowers your ability to connect and what you should be asking your partner instead.

Addiction is more prevalent in our households than we realize. Individuals can be addicted to any number of things including drugs, alcohol, gambling, or even sex. An addict cannot successfully recover by simply stopping the addiction. They need to have a support system in place and the ability to make lasting changes in their life.

This monthly therapy moment is brought to you by Robyn Ashbaugh,  ALMFT. This month we talk about intent versus impact in romantic relationships. Intentions mean very little when your words land on the other person in a negative way. Follow Robin's advice on how to manage your intent and impact better.

Dating. To some of us, it’s just one of those things that you do in life. You eat, you sleep, you date. It’s not a big deal. But for so many others out there, dating is an intimidating ritual that we put ourselves through in order to potentially find ourselves a mate. Between friends, social media, and online dating sites, there are no shortage of dating options out there. But for introverts, it takes extra effort to date. Introverts must step outside of their comfort zone and share a piece of themselves with someone else.

Check out this awesome metaphor for anxiety from Breanna Mann. Learn a quick way to identify how much control your anxiety has at any moment and a few ways to put yourself back in charge quickly.

A new year is almost upon us, can you believe it? Now is the time of the year that I like to advise others to take a look at how the past year has gone, especially if you are in a relationship. Take a look at what went well between you and your partner. Think about the things that you could have done differently in your relationship and use your resolutions for the new year as a stepping stone to improve yourself and your relationship. To get started, ask yourself the following questions:

In this monthly therapy moment we're going to be talking about sex. This tip will give you one thing you can do to make sure that you have sex more often while avoiding the day to day drudgery that sets sex on the back burner

It’s natural that over time, many couples start to feel disconnected from one another. It may be the result of life changes (i.e. one of you starting a new career or a new baby is brought into the household), it may be a result of the relationship not going how you imagined it would when you first started dating or it may simply be that you and your partner have fallen out of sync. You’ll find yourself starting to fight more with your partner, feeling that the spark is dwindling, if not gone, and you’ll start nitpicking every little thing that each other does. Here at Solid Foundations Therapy, we strive to teach you how to recreate  connection and improve your relationship.

Our Monthly Therapy Moment this month is about validation and how sometimes we may cause others to feel invalidated. This video will give you an alternative way to consider other people's feelings and avoid that invalidation we inadvertently cause.