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Newest Posts:

"Money May Talk, But What Is It Saying and Who Is Listening?"
Effective financial communication is key when parents are launching young adults.

"Show Me the Money -- and Deciding How Much Money to Show"
Parents should be financially aligned when trying to empty their nest.

"How Financial Support May Affect Emotional Maturity"
Money matters when it's time to leave home.

"Money Matters, Especially When It's Time to Leave Home"
Knowing what money means to you is good for you — and also for your young adult.

"Do You Do Too Much for Your Adult Child?"
Parents often express to me a sense of befuddlement when it comes to their young adult's hesitancy to take on certain basic grown-up responsibilities.

"Online Therapy with Couples 1/5: A Clinical Quarantine"
How is Covid-19 impacting, and illuminating, our work with intimate partnerships? Beginning a new blog series about conducting online therapy with couples, psychologist and author Brad E. Sachs considers the way in which all couples therapy mimics quarantine - and the importance of establishing ground rules.

"On The Importance of Treatment Failure"
We do all we can to avoid feelings of failure. And yet, argues Brad E. Sachs, failures in psychotherapy can actually serve the needs of the client. Here, the psychologist and author of recent guidebook The Good Enough Therapist explains why he views it as a considerable accomplishment, between client and therapist, when they reach the point at which both feel like failures.

"The Myth of the Mindful Parent"
Parenthood was never intended to be a peaceful, passive endeavor. Child development is-and will always be-a dynamic, embattled, and, at times, bewildering, process. A certain baseline amount of friction and ruthlessness is to be expected when both generations fight to do their jobs-when children fiercely rattle the family cage as they struggle towards freedom and self-sufficiency, and when parents painfully learn when to release their offspring from the grip of caregiving and how to tolerate feeling abandoned when they are left behind and nudged towards the margins of insignificance.


Dr. Brad Sachs contributes regularly to several blogs on the topics of his books and lectures:

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"Emptying The Nest"
Dr. Sachs' Psychology Today Blog

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the Dr. Brad Sachs Blog at
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