advice

Considering counseling or think you or a friend might benefit from some therapy? Here’s a basic introduction and a shared conversation with adolescent therapist and author Dr. Lynn Ponton to clue you in on what to expect from the couch.

Does your relationship need a basic checkup to be sure it’s healthy and well? Here’s a list for doing just that.

What’s it mean to be questioning, why would you or someone else identify that way, how do you deal in the process and how might you answer the question?

No one ever needs a reason to say no to anything, just like you don’t need a reason to say yes to something. It sounds to me like you have been very clear when it comes to what you do not want to do. You even put a very clear date on it, so since you said that it won’t happen until you’re at least…

Maybe you know what safer sex is. But do you also know what it isn’t? Take a minute and fact-check your ideas about what can protect you from STIs and what cannot.

I want to first make a few things clear about any judgments you may be making about yourself or might assume will be made in my answer to you. I don’t like terms like “easy” when they carry derogatory judgments, for the same reason I don’t like terms like “prude” used or internalized that way. If…

Let’s say I decide I want to learn to bake bread, so I decided to try and make bread every day. But what if in doing that, every day I had the oven set at the wrong temperature, was using the wrong measuring tools for my ingredients or kept using yeast which wasn’t active anymore? I could keep doing…

You probably hear the term “healthy relationship” a lot. But what does that mean, and how do you create – and keep building – one of those?

You and your partner have talked about your sexual and relationship history, and it sounds like you’ve also both tried to be honest in voicing your wants and needs when it comes to sex. That means that you two understand how important communication and honesty are when it comes to having a healthy…

That question probably either sounds like a really important one or a really stupid one, depending on your view. But I want the answer regardless, and am seriously tired of waiting for it. That’s why I went ahead and asked it myself. As an organization that provides information on all methods of…