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Couples Concerns
Discover expert advice on couples concerns—from communication struggles to intimacy issues—and how therapy can strengthen relationships.


5 Tips for Managing Stress and Emotions During the Holidays
The holiday season can amplify stress, emotional overwhelm, and family tension. These five therapist-informed strategies offer practical ways to protect your mental health, set boundaries, and move through the holidays with greater ease and intention.


Relationship Ending Trauma: Understanding and Healing After a Sudden Breakup
When a long-term relationship ends suddenly, it can feel like an emotional shock that disrupts every part of your life. The grief, confusion, and loss of identity that follow can mirror a trauma response. This article explores why sudden breakups can feel so destabilizing — and how therapy can help you heal, rebuild trust, and reconnect with yourself.


What Is Gaslighting? 7 Red Flags of Emotional and Psychological Abuse
Gaslighting is a subtle yet powerful form of emotional and psychological abuse that causes victims to doubt their own reality. Learn the seven warning signs of gaslighting and how trauma-informed therapy can help you heal and regain confidence.


Coercive Sexual Experiences: Recognizing, Understanding, and Healing from Sexual Coercion
Coercive sexual experiences are a form of sexual assault that often go unrecognized. Learn how to identify coercion, understand its emotional impact, and begin healing with trauma-informed therapy.


5 Tips for Healing a Broken Heart
Breakups can be painful, but healing is possible. Here are 5 therapist-backed tips to support emotional recovery and self-compassion after heartbreak.


4 Steps to Take Before Starting Couples Therapy
Thinking about couples therapy? Learn 4 important steps to take before your first session — and set the stage for real progress.


How Attachment Trauma Influences Relationships
Our early attachment experiences shape how we connect as adults. Attachment trauma—rooted in inconsistent, neglectful, or harmful caregiving—can lead to fear of intimacy, trust issues, and repeating unhealthy patterns in relationships. This post explores how trauma manifests in adult dynamics and how therapy can help you heal, set boundaries, and build more secure, fulfilling connections.


Perinatal and Postpartum OCD: What new parents need to know
Postpartum and perinatal OCD causes distressing, unwanted thoughts and compulsive behaviors centered around the baby’s safety. It’s more common than most realize—and highly treatable. Learn what it looks like, how it’s different from other postpartum issues, and how therapy can help. Better Being Main Line offers compassionate support for new parents across Pennsylvania.


How Infertility Treatment Can Impact a Couple's Sexual Relationship
Infertility, and the treatments of infertility can cause significant financial stress, feelings of inadequacy or low self-esteem, feelings of guilt, relationship distress, feelings of loss and grief.


What to Know About Postpartum PTSD
Postpartum Depression versus Postpartum PTSD is different, and therefore obtaining a correct diagnosis is crucial. If you or your partner had a traumatic birth experience, we are here to help.


Surviving the Narcissist: What To Do When the Abuser Cries Abuse
Narcissistic ex-partners may begin abusing the legal system to abuse and bully their former partner.


How a Sex Therapist Can Assist in Rebuilding Trust After Infidelity
Infidelity can deeply damage trust. Learn how a sex therapist can support couples in healing, rebuilding intimacy, and moving forward together.


What is “DARVO” & Why do Narcissists use it?
“DARVO” stands for “Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender.” DARVO can occur on an individual or institutional level


The Importance of Being a Giver in Relationships
when one partner is giving more of the emotional, logistical, and even physical labor in the relationship, this can lead to conflict.


5 Benefits of Weekly Marriage Meetings
A “business of marriage” meeting is an intentionally scheduled sit-down talk with your partner to review important topics such as finances,


9 Signs Your Partner is a Narcissist
Narcissistic personality disorder is marked by an individual’s belief they are superior to others, an exaggerated sense of accomplishments,


Addressing Sexual Desire Discrepancies with the Help of a Sex Therapist
Struggling with mismatched sexual desire? A sex therapist can help you and your partner reconnect and better understand each other.
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