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Articles

• 15 Healthy Coping Strategies for Stress Management
• 15 Reasons Premarital Counseling is a Good Idea
• 18 Signs You Need Couples Counseling
• 20 Ways to Practice the Art of Listening
• 3 Apps to Help You Keep a Resolution
• 3 Reasons to Think Before You Text Angry
• 5 Grounding Exercises You Need In Your Life
• 5 Quick Tips to Learn How to Identify Your Emotions
• 5 Signs You’re a Bridezilla and How to Stop!
• 5 Tips for Dealing with Anxiety and Relationship Doubts
• 5 Ways to Build Trust in Your Relationship
• 5 Ways to Prevent a Fight
• Ways to Damage Your Relationship or Marriage
• 7 Benefits of Prenuptial Counseling
• Gottman Couples Therapy: What To Expect
• 8 Strategies for Effectively Managing Stress
• Building Secure Attachments: The Power of A.R.E. in Emotionally Focused Therapy
• Overcoming Depression Through Behavioral Activation
• Are you Addicted to How You Unwind?
• Are you Addicted To the Internet? Social Media? Apps?
• Affordable Couples Counseling
• All you need to know about counseling
• Am I Codependent? What to look for and what to do
• Mastering Your Emotions – Anger Management
• Anxiety and Depression During the Holidays
• Average Cost of Premarital Counseling: What You Need to Know
• #BeingLovedIs: One Student’s Profound Experience
• The #BeingLOVEDIs Project
• Benefits of EMDR for Anxiety and Depression
• Benefits of Premarital Counseling
• Black Lives Education and Community Resources
• Blended Family Wedding? How to Handle Your Kids’ Breakdowns
• How to Keep Your Body Image from Hurting The Relationship
• What is Your Body Language Saying About You?
• Boundaries 101
• Boundaries To Set With Family This Holiday Season
• Break Up Counseling: When to reach out for help
• Breaking the Stigma: Exploring the Myths and Realities of Therapy
• Building a Strong Foundation: Premarital Counseling Essentials
• Burnout – How to spot it and what to do next
• A Circus Event: Raising Money for a Good Cause
• My Child Came Out To Me: How to Successfully Navigate and Support Them
• What is Codependency and How Counseling Can Help
• Common Challenges Couples Face
• How to Communicate Hurt to Your Partner
• 5 Steps to Communicating Needs In Your Relationship
• Compassionate Divorce Counseling in San Diego, CA
• Conflict patterns and how attachment styles
• Contemplative Spirituality as a Path Toward Healing and Wholeness
• Contempt In A Relationship: Why It’s Killing Your Love
• Coping with Relationship Anxiety: Tools for Overcoming Insecurities
• Estes Therapy Counseling Policy and Procedures
• Couples Advice: How Control in Relationships Can Backfire
• How Couples Counseling Online Can Help Your Relationship Survive COVID
• How to stop interrupting: A therapist’s tip
• Creating a Healthy Vacation as a Couple
• Stop Critical Thinking: Live Without Beating Yourself Up
• Dads and Miscarriage: Check in on the dads
• Date Night Advice: Strategies to Making it Unforgettable AND Affordable
• Date Night Ideas in Carlsbad
• Dating Advice For Men: The Do’s and Don’ts
• Secrets for attracting your dream guy
• How To Deal With Your Defensive Partner
• Grief of Divorce: Steps to Cope and Overcome it
• Dos and Don’ts: Make it Through the Holidays Together
• The Effectiveness of Couples Counseling: Explore the Benefits of Couples Counseling in San Diego
• EMDR Therapy in San Diego County, CA: Specialized Trauma and Anxiety Treatment
• Want to Feel Lighter? Unpack Your Emotional Baggage
• EMOTIONS 101: What are emotions? 4 Therapist-Tested and Approved Tips
• Everything you need to know about Counseling
• Is My Partner Family-Obsessed?
• Feeling Disconnected from Your Partner? 3 Actionable Tips to Rebuild Intimacy and Connection in Your Relationship
• Feeling Overwhelmed This Holiday Season?
• What Am I Feeling Right Now? Getting “unstuck” in your negative patterns
• Five Tips to Strengthen Your Marriage Today
• Free Dates in San Diego (and elsewhere!)
• Help! My Friend is Marrying a Loser!
• How to Get the Most out of Counseling in San Diego
• Single and Ready to Date? How to Get Ready for a Relationship
• Get your New Year’s Resolutions to Stick!
• Breast Cancer: How One Woman is Raising Money as She Heals from the Loss
• 5 Healing Shame Exercises to Help You Show Up More Fully
• Healthy Communication: It’s Not What You Said But How You Said It
• Healthy U-Hauling for Lesbians
• Help! I Can’t Get My Partner to Communicate with Me!
• Holiday Depression – Struggling during this ‘merry’ time
• How Counseling Can Set You Up for a Healthy, Happy 2023
• Stuck in your anxiety? How Counseling helps you take control
• How Couples Counseling Can Help
• How EMDR Can Help You Process Childhood Trauma
• How to be Mindful in Your Relationships
• Building a Private Practice: Mentoring Package to help you along the way
• How to Communicate During an Argument: 7 Quick Rules
• How to Communicate with Wedding Vendors
• How To Cope With Anxiety Around the Holidays
• Negative Coping: Steps how to cope with conflict
• How to Find Gay and Lesbian Marriage Counseling
• How to Find a Premarital Counselor
• How To Find the Best LGBT Couples Counseling for You
• Conflict Resolution: How to Fix a Fight in a Relationship
• How to get your partner to go to couples counseling
• How to Heal After An Affair: Recovering From Infidelity After You Find Out
• How to Identify an Emotional Affair
• Should I Listen or Give Advice? How to Determine Which Way to Respond to Your Partner or Friend
• How to Make a Decision When You Disagree
• How to Recover From a Breakup: 6 Steps to Get Off the Emotional Roller Coaster
• Stopping the Cycle of Abuse: How to Identify an Abusive Relationship, Create a Safety Plan, and Escape
• Improve Your Health with 3 Daily Self-Care Habits
• Improve your Relationship by Taking Care of Yourself
• Why In-Person Counseling is So Much Better at Estes Therapy Mission Valley
• Increase Happiness by Focusing on These 5 Pillars
• Increase Happiness by Incorporating the 5 Pillars
• Individual Counseling – What to Expect
• Interview w/ Lisa Kift – Premarital Counseling Workbook
• Keeping a Balanced Life: The Ingredients to Emotional Health
• Key Topics to Discuss in Premarital Counseling Sessions
• Are you in Denial about leaving your relationship?
• Life on The Fence
• 6 Apps to Make Long Distance Relationships a Little Bit Easier
• How to Ace the Long-Distance Relationship Game
• Maintaining Connection During Social Distancing
• How An Anxiety Therapist Can Help
• Marriage Counseling After an Affair: Couples Therapy for Affair Recovery
• Marriage Counseling in San Diego: Is Your Therapist a Good Fit?
• Mental Health in the Workplace: The Role of Therapy and Self-Care
• Money Stress & Relationships
• Coping: How to Tolerate Emotional Distress
• Taking a Break during a fight – Negotiated Breaks
• Online Dating Advice: How to bounce back quickly when things went wrong
• Parenting and Mental Health: Balancing Parenthood and Self-Care
• How to Cope and Heal From Your Partner’s Sexual Addiction
• Can Phone Apps Improve My Relationship?
• Stop Pokémon Go from Ruining Your Relationship
• Polyamorous Counseling and Consensual Non-Monogamy Counseling
• How to Practice Self-Love and Self-Care
• The Psychology of Infidelity and Cheating: Why Do People Cheat?
• Recognizing Unwanted Behaviors: How our Childhood Experience Affects our Adult Life
• Recommended Listening
• Recommended Reading
• Relationship Advice: How to damage your relationship
• Stop Interrupting And Keep Up Your Connection
• Emotional Affairs: An Intimate Form of Cheating
• A Story about Toilet Paper to Inspire Positive Change…Really
• I’m Doubting My Relationship – Am I Overthinking?
• Social Networking Series: How to Keep Facebook from Hurting your Relationship
• Relationships in the Raw Intro Video
• Relationships in The Raw Blog
• Repairing the Emotional Rift: How EFT Helps Couples Confront Compulsive Sexual Behavior
• Making New Memories: The Importance of San Diego Couples’ Photo Shoot
• Ask the Therapist: Help! Craigslist is Ruining My Relationship
• The Art of Self-Care: Nurturing Your Mind, Body, and Soul
• Mood Boosting Foods – How Foods and Self-Esteem Interact
• What to do if sex is a chore: Advice from a therapist
• Is Sex a Chore? It Doesn’t Have to Be!
• Should I Do Counseling? 10 Good Reasons to Say Yes
• Signs You Need Premarital Counseling
• Single During the Holidays? How to Stay Merry
• Sleep Divorce: Sleeping in Different Beds
• Sleep Hygiene & How to Improve Your Sleep
• Social Anxiety: Strategies for Navigating Social Situations
• Emotional Health: 5 Tips for Staying Sane During the Holidays
• Relationship Advice: How to Stop Snooping
• Storming Out of Fights: Here’s Why You Need to Stop
• Substance Abuse and Relationships
• Superbill – what is it and why do I need one?
• How to Support Someone Through Miscarriage
• Are Your Tech Habits Taking Over? Exploring the Impact of Digital Dependency
• Telehealth Counseling Sessions – How to Get the Most Out of Your Online Therapy
• Terapeutas que Hablan Español en San Diego
• Text Fighting: The Do’s and Don’ts
• The Benefits of Professional Support for LGBTQIA+ Couples
• The Benefits of Therapy: How It Can Improve Your Mental Health
• Got Dumped? The Break Up Quiz
• What is The Cost of Couples Therapy
• The Facebook Relationship Status Dilemma
• The Jealousy Trap: How to Rebuild Trust
• The Party Scene in the Gayborhood: Signs to Call it Quits or Cut Back on Partying
• Setting Boundaries with the Safety Sandwich
• The Ultimate Communication Workbook: Helping Couples Grow Together
• Therapy at Your Fingertips: Exploring the Benefits of Online Premarital Counseling
• Threatening to Leave Damages Your Relationship
• Tips for Getting Through the Holidays – COVID Edition
• Tips for Healthy Communication in Romantic Relationships
• Tips on Preparing for Lesbian Marriage Counseling
• Top Apps for Improving Self-Esteem
• Top Apps for Meditation
• Types of Couples Counseling: Common Methods of Couples Counseling in San Diego
• Different Types of Therapists – Which one is right for me?
• Understanding Different Types of Mental Illness=
• Understanding the Science Behind EMDR Therapy for PTSD
• Understanding Your Emotions – What I Am Feeling and How Therapy Can Help
• Unpack Your Emotional Baggage with Counseling in San Diego
• Vulnerability in Relationships
• Wedding Rings: A sense of security in relationships
• Weekend Counseling: What is it and what should I expect?
• Therapy Talk: What is Codependency?
• What Is EFT Therapy? How Do I Know If It’s Right for Me?
• What to do When Your Spouse Won’t Talk to You
• What to Expect in Couples Counseling: Relationship Counseling Overview
• When and How Often to Seek Couples Counseling
• Why Am I So Pissed Off? All about anger
• Why Go To Therapy in San Diego
• Why Seeking Therapy Is a Sign of Strength
• Worst Relationship Advice

Press & Media Coverage

• Estes Therapy Press & Articles
• Capessa – Marriage…. Straight Up or On The Rocks?
• Equally Wed Magazine – Family Meeting: Social Media and How it Has Changed Planning a Gay Wedding
• Exquisite Wedding Magazine – Bickering Over the Budget?
• Exquisite Wedding Magazine – Don’t Become a Bridezilla
• Exquisite Wedding Magazine – Future Drama In-Laws
• Fox 5 News: Keeping Relationships Connected and Dealing With Stress
• Fox 5 News: Tiger Scandal Hits Home
• Fox 5 News – Unemployment Becomes Fun-Employment for Some
• Glamour – 8 Habits That Wreck Your Relationship
• Interview With Your San Diego Therapist: Romance Never Dies
• KUSI Inside San Diego – Communication in the Bedroom
• KUSI Inside San Diego – Destructive Behaviors and How to Break the Cycle
• PowayPatch – Poway School District Makes The Pledge Optional
• Redbook Magazine – 5 Secrets You Should Never Keep
• Redbook Magazine – How to Put an End to Bickering
• San Diego Gay and Lesbian News – Shrink Wrap
• San Diego Living – Cougars and Cubs, and Breakups
• Social Work Today Magazine – Social Networking in Addiction Recovery
• Star News – Love is a Many Splendid, Chemical Thing
• The Bottom Line Magazine – Bullied to Death
• Union Tribune – Recessions Change Love Statistics, Too
• Union Tribune – Some Gay Couple’s won’t Rush to the Altar
• Union Tribune – Tiger Woods Apologizes
• Whole Living Magazine – How to: Walking as Therapy
• Your Tango – 5 Tips for Surviving His Family

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• Communication Video
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
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• Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples
• Getting the Love You Want Workbook: The New Couples’ Study Guide
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• Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
• I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
• Living Like You Mean It: Use the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want
• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
• It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self
• Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction
• Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child
• Storming Out of Fights
• Untamed