Don Elium, MA MFT

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Getting lost in your circumstances is not a disease. Life is just harder than you ever imagined. Without realizing it you blindly do the same old thing over and over and expect a different result every time. That is, until you just can't take it anymore.

Then, you have the motivation required to look squarely into what you have been avoiding. eye1aa

This therapy looks directly into that blindspot to find the one thing you need to see clearly, to understand, to own, and to change so you can start being true to yourself and to be that very self with those you love.

Don Elium, MA MFT, practices individual and couple counseling in his office in Walnut Creek, CA, San Francisco Bay Area

He also works by PHONE as well as through VIDEOCAM Online with those in the United States and Internationally.

Don is author, with his wife Jeanne,of four best selling books, including Raising a Family

Don is completing a fifth book on how to stop doing the thing that drives your partner crazy.

"At the brink, people find the willingness to change"

Email Don@DonElium.com

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I Need To Shut Up But I Can't!

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I need to shut up, but I can't. My sister and brother sat me down and confronted me about how angry I get at people when they disagree with me. They say that I am so opinionated that they have stopped wanting to be around me, because they get the impression that I think they are stupid. This is tough medicine to swallow. I spoke to my husband, who I thought loved my "spiritedness," and I was shocked to find out—after much prodding--that he, too, after ten years of marriage, had given up disagreeing with me about almost anything. I thought we were close. I really want to be loving with them. Sigh. (Click Here For Question and Answer)