Q: I am 22 years old, and I recently moved back home for the summer. I live 30 minutes away during the school year, and at home with my single mom during the summer. She’s had a hard childhood and marriage — both her father and husband were mentally and physically abusive. She says that [...]

Q: I am wondering what I can expect from joint counseling sessions with my mother, who has a Cluster B Personality Disorder. Though I am comfortable with low to no contact (as are my children and my husband), I do sometimes long for a normal relationship with my mother and for her to have a [...]

Q: I am a happily married mother of two and a concert pianist. My vocation requires that I work closely with professors to refine my art. I have always enjoyed great friendships with my teachers, that have lasted for years. Two years ago, I started studying with one of the greatest teachers in the world. We [...]

Q: I’m very worried about my looks. I’m 21 years old, male, from Morocco. I feel that I’m ugly. I’ve never had a girlfriend before. It feels like a problem without a solution. I can’t help it. I’m pragmatic so please don’t tell me that it’s all about personality. I would like to have a [...]

Q: I have a friend to whom I feel deeply connected. We are both married to other people and I really love my husband. My husband also knows how I feel about my friend, as we had a rough patch and this came up. My friend was my mentor at work but was released five [...]

Q: I’m 15. I have been having feeling worthless and helpless for about three years, ever since I moved from my old town and started middle school. I feel like my friends don’t really care about me. They just act like it because they ‘have to.’ And although my parents do care about me a [...]

Q: I really want to understand how a lesbian thinks. There happens to be a girl I have known for many years, and she was bisexual in a way. She just disappeared, and now I have bumped into her graduating college. She is full lesbian with a girlfriend of 11 months. I feel she was [...]