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Suitability Versus Excitement: Why You Can’t Have It All When It Comes to Relationships
Entering into a new relationship is exciting. Everything you learn about the other person is new and there is a thrill in wondering if the next person you meet will be your perfect match. But having...
Prioritizing Your Relationship “Must Haves”
It is relatively common for people in the dating world to say that they have a list of requirements for their perfect partner. Almost everyone will have at least a general idea since most people...
Why Affairs Can Be Tempting – and Why They Often Don’t Work Out
Confirmation that someone finds you attractive can be an intoxicating feeling. When it is combined with a new and exciting experience that feels like a vacation from the normal concerns of your...
A Vicious Cycle: How Your Perception of Self Becomes a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy for Relationships
The most successful and fulfilling relationships happen to those who feel they deserve that type of relationship. Those who are confident that they offer value to others in a relationship will...
Empower Yourself by Learning to Thrive Alone
Many of us struggle with the fear of being alone. In romantic relationships, the fear of being alone can cause us to avoid addressing relationship problems or stay in relationships longer than is...
How Do You Manage the Fear of the Unknown?
No one knows the future. Never has that been more true than the last few years, when the world as we knew it was thrust into uncertainty. Yet in many ways, this idea that we don’t know what the...
How Dependency Can Threaten Your Relationship
It is common to speak of finding a partner as finding your “missing piece” or “soul mate.” But while relationships can be very fulfilling, thinking of them as something that makes you whole is more...
No Such Thing as Boredom – How to Fight Boredom with Engagement
My grandmother used to say that there is no such thing as boredom, just boring people. This probably sounds harsh. The idea here is that boredom is not a result of having nothing to do or being...
How to Accept What You Cannot Change and Change What You Cannot Accept
Some of life is under our control. But much of it is not. We can't control who our parents are. We cannot control our past. We cannot control contracting an illness, or bringing back someone that we...
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