Stoop David Phd

read moreI am a psychologist and family counselor who has been working with families and marriages for over 35 years. I am fascinated with how families and marriages work and am challenged to find out why they don't work at times. We may label troubled families as dysfunctional, but in truth all human relationships are flawed and dysfunctional. I start with that premise. I enjoy working families, in fact, in my counseling office, the more family members I have in the room, the better. For me, working with relationships is like putting together a giant puzzle-it is always a great challenge.

read moreLove is patient, love is kind. Much of what Jan and I write about, and what we teach in our workshops, comes out of the experiences and realities of working with individual couples in my office to help them sort out the issues that threaten their relationship. My primary work is as a psychologist, and about 80% of my caseload is working with married couples at all stages of crisis. This is by choice, for over the years, not only have I enjoyed the interaction of working with couples, but have been effective in helping most couples restore to their relationship the meaning and hopes for their marriage that they had when they first married.