Sometimes the pain positively oozes through the questions asked during our Calgary Marriage Counselling Sessions:
Why can’t you love me for who I am?
Shouldn’t you just love and want me for me?
Why is it so hard to love me for who I am inside?
Why does my appearance stand between me and your love?
What do you do when toxic conflict and conspiracy theories sit down at your Thanksgiving dinner table?
Read more“I just don’t get why everything has to be a fight with you…”
Read moreOver two decades ago, I had a newly retired addictions counselling and Calgary Sex Therapy client in my office who I’ve never been able to forget. His struggles with sex and relationships had, at that point, gone on for over thirty-five years and, throughout that time, he had amassed over a thousand sexual partners – mostly paid sex workers – in virtually every major city in the world.
Read moreSex Therapy Calgary: Regardless of whether we grow up surrounded by the rules and controls of religion or simply have our attitudes and beliefs shaped by society’s taboos, almost no one reaches adulthood in North America without a deeply ingrained sense that sex is dirty and defiling.
Read moreSex Therapy Calgary: A few months ago, I was in a session with a young wife struggling deeply in her sexual relationship with her husband. About halfway through the session, she got reticent and then began to weep.
Read moreCouples Counselling Calgary: One of the most surprising discoveries we made when we first opened our Calgary Counselling Services related to the reasons most of our marriage and couples counselling clients were coming to see us. Now well over 20 years ago, it was obvious to all of them that Henze and Associates was a new Calgary counselling centre and even more apparent that we were both fresh out of school and only barely knew what we were doing.
Read moreIt’s happened to so many little boys: The young man comes home one day. Dad is out on the driveway finishing packing his sports car with all of his worldly possessions. Mom is upstairs crying, trying to reassure the child that everything will be ok – while frantically googling, “Grief counselling Calgary,” and, “Surviving infidelity,” on her phone.
Read moreAfter nineteen years as a Calgary couples counsellor, I now get the desperate emails and the frantic phone calls practically all the time:
My wife cheated on me…
My husband had an affair…
Read more“After all these years of marriage, you still don’t know anything about me – do you?” Spend any time at all in the field of couples or marriage counselling and that snarled/shouted comment will, really quickly, become very familiar.
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