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The Five Love Languages
<p>The Five Love Languages® is a great tool for improving relationships, whether you’re at the beginning of a new relationship or you’ve been married for decades. It is a very simple and understandable method of […]</p>

Raffi Bilek
Jan 9, 20173 min read


Four Ways to Identify a Bad Therapist
<p>Following up on our last post, let’s talk a bit about what possible red flags to look out for when searching for a therapist in Baltimore or anywhere else. Unfortunately, as we mentioned last time, […]</p>

Raffi Bilek
Dec 7, 20164 min read


How Do I Find a Therapist?
<p>So you’re looking for a therapist in Baltimore. Maybe you typed “Baltimore therapist” into Google and it sent you here. But how do you find the right “Baltimore therapist” for you? What goes in to […]</p>

Raffi Bilek
Nov 15, 20163 min read


How Long Does Couples Counseling Take?
<p>This is a question I get asked all the time. How long will it take? How many sessions do people usually need? People rightly want to know how much time and money they will be […]</p>

Raffi Bilek
Nov 3, 20162 min read


Couples Counseling – What’s It All About?
<p>What is couples counseling? Couples counseling goes by various names: couples therapy, marriage counseling, marital therapy, relationship counseling, and more. These are all ways of framing the same process, namely, trying to help a couple […]</p>

Raffi Bilek
Oct 10, 20165 min read


Stop a Fight Before it Starts
<p>Ever find yourself in a situation where a fight is brewing and you know it’s coming but don’t know how to avoid it? Check out this link for a post explaining just that. http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/how-to-stop-fight-with-your-partner-before-it-starts-1004164</p>

Raffi Bilek
Oct 5, 20161 min read


Family Therapy: Parental Transitions
<p>In the previous post we cited a number of examples of role changes that can lead to conflict in the home and the importance of family therapy for managing these transitions. There we focused primarily […]</p>

Raffi Bilek
Sep 26, 20162 min read


Mothers & Daughters: Changing Roles
<p>Why do relationships between mothers and daughters that are warm, loving, and peaceable turn into battlegrounds of conflict and frustration? What happens that causes such a drastic change, often in so short a time? The […]</p>

Raffi Bilek
Sep 8, 20162 min read


Family Therapy: Parents & Children
<p>We frequently get calls for family therapy, specifically regarding troubled mother/daughter relationships. These include young parents with school- or preschool-aged children, middle-aged women with their teenage/young adult daughters, and even up to elderly women who […]</p>

Raffi Bilek
Aug 24, 20162 min read


How to Catch a Cheating Husband
<p>If you are looking to catch your husband (or wife, boyfriend, etc.) cheating on you, you actually have two problems at hand, not one. The first, of course, is that your husband might be cheating […]</p>

Raffi Bilek
Aug 8, 20162 min read


“I Caught My Husband Watching Porn”
<p>If you’ve just discovered your boyfriend or husband watching porn online – perhaps extensively – you may be feeling shock, anger, disappointment, betrayal, and more. You also may be confused about what this means for […]</p>

Raffi Bilek
Jul 27, 20162 min read


Call for a Free Counseling Consultation!
<p>Call today : 443-598-2821 (you can text us too!) Getting started on the process of therapy isn’t easy. Especially if you’ve never done it before, you might be a little bit confused or nervous about […]</p>

Raffi Bilek
Jul 19, 20162 min read


Millennial Love
<p>Check out this recent article for which I was interviewed by ABC staff: http://www.abc2news.com/bachelor/millennial-love-one-right-swipe-at-a-time It discusses modern dating and how technology has made a significant change in the dating landscape. There’s no question that Tinder, […]</p>

Raffi Bilek
Jul 12, 20161 min read


The Kids Were Difficult Tonight
<p>An amazing thing happened in my house last night. I was out for the evening, and I came home to find a tired but relatively cheerful wife and three sleeping children. This is what I […]</p>

Raffi Bilek
Jul 6, 20162 min read


Save My Marriage!
<p>I’ve noticed that a lot of requests for help that come through e-mail, text, or sites like Thumbtack.com list “save my marriage” as the reason for seeking help. So I thought I’d let you know […]</p>

Raffi Bilek
Jun 27, 20162 min read
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