Blog Articles | Brentwood Psychotherapist Dr. Bill Cloke - Part 15
March 14, 2025
How to Make Love Last: The Quiet Work of Staying Connected
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other" — Audrey Hepburn When we talk about making relationships last, we’re really asking a deeper question—how do we help love endure? It's not about just staying together under one…
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April 17, 2025
Finding Your Way Through Disaster: A Journey of Loss, Love, and Resilience
Disaster doesn’t knock before it enters your life—it arrives uninvited, turning everything familiar into something unrecognizable. One moment, you're stepping out the door like you have for years, and the next, life as you know it is gone. That’s exactly…
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May 12, 2025
Riding the WAVE: A Real Path to Conflict Resolution
Let’s face it—conflict is part of every relationship. No matter how much love there is, sooner or later, disagreements show up at the door. What matters most isn’t whether we argue, but how we handle those moments when emotions run…
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June 24, 2025
How to Find Sanity in An Insane World
2025 has been quite a year and we are only halfway through it. We lost our home in the Palisades fires and then the whole world caught fire. Wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, and Israel, mass shootings and our president…
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November 15, 2025
How Cell Phones and AI are Taking Over Our Brains & Our Lives
So, I’m at the gym. It’s supposed to be a sanctuary—a place to reconnect with my physical self, to sweat, to reflect, maybe even chat a bit. But all around me, people sit on workout machines, heads bowed, eyes glazed,…
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November 16, 2025
3 Important Tips to Remember to Avoid Holiday Family Drama
Emotions can run high for the holidays. This time of year seems to bring up our entire history of Christmas or Chanukah past. Hurt feelings can pop out of the woodwork when we least expect it. To keep our sanity…
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