Gary is a solution focused therapist at Turning Point Therapy in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Gary provides counseling to teenagers, families, and individuals.
Simple Things To Improve Your Marriage:
I counsel a lot of couples in my Grand Rapids, Michigan counseling office and one of the things I notice is that when a couple is in trouble, it’s often because they stopped doing the little things that made a difference. When I do marriage counseling, I often make use the of the…
“ Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.” — Chuck Swindoll.
I just heard this quote again today and the timing was good. I’ve been thinking about…
Helping Your Teenager Develop Grit
Peter Gray, PhD, recently posted an article on Psychology Today about how present day college students have a decided lack of grit. Grit would be defined as having the ability to handle adversity. They have a tendency to not know how to fail well. Basically, Gray says students today have…
My Parenting on a Scale from 1 to 10
First of all, to understand why I would scale my parenting on a scale from 1 to 10, you should know I’m a solution focused therapist and scaling questions are a key part of how we help people make changes. We ask people to rate their situations on a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 representing…