Welcome to my Blog
Thank you for stopping by. This space is where I share research, reflections, and practical tools drawn from psychology and couples therapy.
Are you a couple looking for clarity? A professional curious about the science of relationships? Or simply someone interested in how love and resilience work? I’m glad you’ve found your way here.
Each post is written with one goal in mind: to help you better understand yourself, your partner, and the hidden dynamics that shape connection.
Grab a coffee (or a notebook), explore what speaks to you, and take what’s useful back into your life and relationships. And if a post sparks a question, or makes you realize you could use more support, I’d love to hear from you.
Be Well, Stay Kind, and Godspeed.
~Daniel
P.S.
Feel free to explore the categories below to find past blog posts on the topics that matter most to you. If you’re curious about attachment, navigating conflict, or strengthening intimacy, these archives are a great way to dive deeper into the research and insights that I’ve been sharing for years.
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- How to Fight Fair
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- Intercultural Relationships
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- Neurodiverse Couples
- Separation & Divorce
- Signs of Trouble
- Social Media and Relationships
- What Happy Couples Know
3 Kinds of couples therapy for neurodiverse couples
When you’re working with neurodiverse couples, you must establish with concrete AF clarity upfront:
Are we dealing Relationship-Building?
Relationship-Clarifying, or Relationship-Ending?
More therapy interventions for Neurodiverse Couples…
The best interventions are profound, and elegant.
Here are two powerful interventions used with neurodiverse couples in Brain-Informed Neurodiverse Couple Therapy…
What is Brain-Informed Active Listening?
What is Brain-Informed Active Listening?
…And how can neurodiverse couple convey authentic effort?
The problem of eye contact and Implicit Ableism…
Effectiver neurodiverse couples therapy starts with understanding the pitfalls of implicit ableism…
What’s Brain-Informed Neurodiverse Couples Therapy?
Neurodiversity, as a human difference has received little academic attention in mental health training programs, until recently.
What is Brain-Informed Neurodiverse Couples Therapy?
Exploring hobbies vs. special interests: a discussion of neurotypical and neurodiverse differences…
Neurotypical spouses have hobbies… but sometimes a neurodiverse spouse will have a special interest that feels like a hobby on steroids… how do you manage these sorts of differences?
How to mind read, if you absolutely must…
In my last post, I described how social science research nailed “mind reading” as a particularly toxic habit in intimate relationships.
But Industrial psychologists love mind reading research. I guess they fantasize about a highly efficient hive-mind… but I digress…
If you must mind read… here is what you should know…
Do satisfied couples have synchronized brains?
Recent research tells us that happy couples have synchronized brains… Do these brains groove easily because they’re a “good match?”
Or is this synchronization hard won, occurring gradually over time?
Alexithymia, emotional awareness, and alienation
Processing emotions effectively is the essential challenge in neurodiverse relationships.
How does the use of metaphor and differences in emotional processing gum up the works for these couples?
66 Traits that might indicate your life partner is neurodiverse…
What if powerful differences in how you and your partner think might be the actual source of your unhappiness?
What if your husband isn’t an asshole after all?
Here are 66 traits that suggest that your partner might be neuro-diverse. ..
8 Indications that your husband doesn’t respect you. Or is he, perhaps…neurodiverse?
When asshole behavior arises in an intimate relationship… we need a explanatory narrative. And that’s when some neurodiverse couples often self-identify…