Welcome to my Blog
Thank you for stopping by. This space is where I share research, reflections, and practical tools drawn from my experience as a marriage and family therapist.
Are you a couple looking for clarity? A professional curious about the science of relationships? Or simply someone interested in how love and resilience work? I’m glad you’ve found your way here. I can help with that.
Each post is written with one goal in mind: to help you better understand yourself, your partner, and the hidden dynamics that shape human connection.
Grab a coffee (or a notebook), explore what speaks to you, and take what’s useful back into your life and relationships. And if a post sparks a question, or makes you realize you could use more support, I’d love to hear from you.
Be Well, Stay Kind, and Godspeed.
~Daniel
P.S.
Feel free to explore the categories below to find past blog posts on the topics that matter most to you. If you’re curious about attachment, navigating conflict, or strengthening intimacy, these archives are a great way to dive deeper into the research and insights that I’ve been sharing for years.
- Attachment Issues
- Coronavirus
- Couples Therapy
- Extramarital Affairs
- Family Life and Parenting
- How to Fight Fair
- Inlaws and Extended Families
- Intercultural Relationships
- Marriage and Mental Health
- Married Life & Intimate Relationships
- Neurodiverse Couples
- Separation & Divorce
- Signs of Trouble
- Social Media and Relationships
- What Happy Couples Know
Depression: Lifestyle vs. Genetics the results from a huge longitudinal study…
Researchers have discovered 7 lifestyle habits which can slash your vulnerability to depression by a whopping 57%!
What are they?
Making light of depression…
Breaking research explains how light can promote mental health… and undermine it as well…
The problems with Evolutionary Psychology…
Evolutionary psychology is an emerging discipline with a somewhat jaundiced view of mankind…
Here are some of my kind-hearted quibbles with EP…
Unveiling Betrayal Trauma Theory: navigating the depths of emotional betrayal
A new understanding of trauma invites us to consider the source.
How will Betrayal Trauma Theory help us better understand the special burden of an intimate betrayal?
The promise of Evolutionary Psychology…
The emerging field of evolutionary psychology tries to answer the big questions about human sexual behavior, mate selection and pair-bonding…
Why do some wealthy humans become more increasingly miserable as they prosper?
I love research about emotions and money!
A duel of the titans between conflicting researchers has yielded a fascinating tidbit…
About 20% of humans become correspondingly more miserable as they prosper…
The most essential skill linked to peace of mind…
New research from Finland and the USA is trying to take the elusive notion of peace of mind, and reverse engineer it to its most fundamental elements.
The upside of being a slob…
I love it when a piece of research explains away a fact of life, leaving in it’s wake, a calm self-acceptance.
For some smartypants humans, this research will elicit a sigh of relief…
Divorce upon the death of a child… the research
The death of a child is perhaps, the greatest stress upon a human soul.
What does the research tell us about this profound kind of grief?
And how does that contradict our cultural expectations?
The science-based symphony of love…
Gottman Couples Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy are the dominant models used today.
In this post, I’ll compare and contrast the two models with a tortuously extended symphonic metaphor…
The power of abstract thinking…
I can’t help myself! It’s endlessly fascinating to me when research helps us tweak and goose our minds to work a little better for us.
I love brain hack studies!
This one is particularly cool…
Men, are you vexed by little daily hassles?… learn to take them in stride…
New research warns us that little daily hassles can kill you just by letting it grind you down.
Men, in particular, should check out this study.