Blog Articles | Brentwood Psychotherapist Dr. Bill Cloke - Part 11
April 18, 2021
The Foundation For Love
To be happy together, we need to build and maintain loving connections with our partner. The stronger these connections are, the more lasting our love will be. Love and romance are nurtured as much by small, everyday things as by…
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June 13, 2021
How Do Men and Women Approach Problems?
When I am working with couples, the men may talk a lot about wanting to be appreciated and having a partner who can help them; they seem to want loyalty and they want to engage in activities like hiking or…
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July 17, 2021
Should We Blame The Parents?
The problem of blaming the parents remains a very difficult one for psychotherapists and patients because our need to be loyal to our parents naturally leads us to lay the responsibility for our problems on some essential flaw within us.…
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August 12, 2021
You Say Potato and I Say Potahto – How Can We See the Same Thing So Differently?
Ben and Nancy were at home one evening when something happened that shook them up. This was not the first time either. The weekend had gone well, they cooked dinner together, danced, talked, made love and were in excellent spirits…
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October 9, 2021
How Not to Cheat
Marriage is simply hard work. But the good news is that attitude is everything. The Toltec Empire lasted from 300 to 600 BC and included the Pacific Coastal Chiapas and Guatemala, the Yucatan Peninsula, and much of Northern and Western…
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October 27, 2021
What We Know About Trauma
In some way or another most of what we do in psychotherapy is related to some form of trauma. Most anxiety, panic, depression, and personality disorders are trauma related. We seem to feel that trauma survivors are an exceptional group…
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