I’m currently a contract firefighter in Iraq and I’ve been a firefighter for a total of about nine years. However, I’m looking to start a new career in counseling. I received my Bachelors in Psychology back in 2001 from UNC Greensboro with a minor in Sociology. I’m 36 years old and have a family, so [...]

Q: I am 20, female, and I have had depression for almost ten years. I want to get rid of it. I am gaining weight. I feel like a loser. I have no social contacts because where I am living is not a populated town. I have only one friend, no siblings. I don’t feel [...]

Q: Could I ever manage my partner’s investments and have a loving relationship at the same time? I am realizing that failure starts to lead towards resentment within the relationship and it is hard to separate care and love for one another with business. Do you recommend that I refrain completely from investing my partner’s [...]

Q: I am now 24 years old. I met my husband when I had just turned 20 and he was barely 26 years old. It was truly love at first sight. The first two years were amazing, but the last two have been the worst years of my life. We haven’t had sex or slept [...]

Q: My boyfriend, who has a 16-year-old son, got divorced about a year and a half ago. For the last 6 months or so his son has been very ill. He has a 100-103 degree fever and is vomiting. We have him every other weekend and oddly enough, when he is with us nothing seems [...]

Q: I am currently in a long distance relationship. I started dating my girlfriend in high school, but we had a falling out before we went to college. I got drunk one night and cheated on her, and then she proceeded to hook up with a lot of my friends. Needless to say, we didn’t [...]

Q: I have been with my boyfriend for close to two years and it has been a wonderful time but he has depression and he drinks almost every night — maybe five to seven beers when I’m around. He acknowledged he has a drinking problem and that the depression does play a role. He is [...]