Author: Shocki, PhD, LMFT, LCSW

Dr Shocki has over thirty years experience in the behavior health field. He has founded and directs the Life Source Center, Inc., located in Plantsville Connecticut. Services include behavior health counseling dealing with relationship issues, persons struggling with various anxiety and depressive maladies and those individuals struggling to develop improved stategies to cope with the world around them. Dr. Shocki has also written a book entitled "Take Charge of Your Life or Someone Else Will" The book is available electronically free upon request at lifesourcecenter @aol.com.

“In quarreling about the shadow, we often lose the subtance” – Aesop

“In quarreling about the shadow, we often lose the substance”.  – Aesop In treating couples who are in dysfunctional relationships, it is not unusual to find that instead of dealing with the underlying reasons for the problems in their relationship, they focus on arguing about the surface irritants. These irritants soon mushroom into all encompassing barriers to the closeness they claim they had once experienced before they moved out of the “honeymoon stage” of their relationship.  They go around in circles, arguing about the same old things and ending upRead More