“I consider therapy successful when the family members (or individual clients) have discovered ways to get what they need from their relationships with the people in their lives, so that their relat...”

“Techniques are like tools: The more you have, the more options for getting a job done - but you have to know what you are building first.”

“In cases where treatment with medication is warranted, work on family interactions will help to reduce symptom severity and promote better functioning in the long run.”

“Life is a purposeful action.”

“Use fear as a counselor not a captor.”

“The one trying to have the last word is rarely walking in the Word.”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“More often than not, its disrespectful to them (our children) - and disrespectful to their struggle with their tasks in life- if our own anxiety as parents makes us cling to our children. Its disre...”

“As our children turn even five or six degrees away from us, we have to be aware of our fear and our excitement and our hope for them. And as that five or sex degrees turns into ten or twenty degree...”

“I consider therapy successful when the family members (or individual clients) have discovered ways to get what they need from their relationships with the people in their lives, so that their relat...”