Mitchell Milch, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in Ridgewood, New Jersey for the past 12 years. Mr. Milch’s areas of specialization include: Couples Therapy, Life Transitions; Divorce, Parent Education, Performance Anxieties, Addictions, and Mood Disorders. Mr. Milch maintains a website at www.healthymindsets.com that features many self help articles he has written.
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This article discusses how unmet emotional needs fuel the engine of over eating. It describes how psychotherapy can be the antidote for such self-abuse.
This article discusses the frame of mind indispensable to creative change and personal growth. It makes the case that meditation is the royal road to training your mind to be in an optimal state of creativity.
This article discusses the challenges in general we face in making life transitions, and in particular the transition to retirement. The article delves into the stressful and painful aspects of reshaping one's valued identity which requires mourning and transforming one's valued self image.
I have been separated for 6 months and my wife still has a resraining order on me and has filed for divorce. She knows I want to work things out and she has noticed the changes in me. Help!
If your wife is not afraid of telling you the truth then your remark begs the question: Does she want to work things out and if she didn't would she feel comfortable telling you?
There are many possible ways of understanding that she continues to use the authority of the legal system to keep you apart.
1) Your wife has been traumatized by whatever motivated her to file for a restraining order and therefore is not able to think about the past being behind her. She may require counseling
My husband wants a divorce. Says he isn't in love with me anymore and our marriage isn't repairable. He can't forgive me for kissing someone while separated. HELP
It's hard to answer your question without knowing more about the events leading to your separation. I do wonder if you are lettign me know that your husband expected you to be a mind reader during your marriage? I also wonder reflecting on what your question stirred inside myself if this is par for the course for your husband in maintaining expectations that have not been negotiated only to blame you for victimizing himself?
I don't know what associations he has to this current triangle but, it doesn't sound like he is
This article discusses the relationship between trust and faith as they work in concert to help people clarify and pursue their missions for being in this world. It speaks to my evolving spirituality and how it grew out of my work as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist.
This article looks at stress on a continuumfor healthy stressthatenhances optimalfunctining to unhealthy stress and how andwhy it impedes optimal functioning.
When couples get angry they often lose empathy for each other and make war instead of love. This article reviews ways couples can resolve conflicts in ways that both parties get the respect and consideration they need from each other to protect their love for each other.
This article exposes the rationalizations that perpetuate self defeating and self destructive expressions of anger.
Advice for single parents that will help them keep their children's best interests at heart.

