Kate Ivey Counseling

Most people set goals for their bodies, careers, and bank accounts… but forget the one area that quietly shapes everything else: their relationship.

In my newest blog at Ivey Counseling Center, I share the 9 Life Domains framework from Your Best Year Ever and show how combining habit goals + achievement goals can restore intimacy, emotional safety, and connection in your partnership.

Your relationship doesn’t need more hard conversations.

It needs a system for turning toward each other again.

Read the full post here:

https://www.iveycounselingcenter.com/post/the-9-life-domains-how-setting-relationship-goals-can-transform-your-year

The 9 Life Domains: How Setting Relationship Goals Can Transform Your Year The framework for the 9 life domains used in this article comes from Your Best Year Ever by Michael Hyatt. His work offers a holistic approach to goal setting that honors the complexity of real life which is something I see reflected daily in the therapy room. When people think about goal setting, t...

https://www.iveycounselingcenter.com/post/the-myth-of-natural-ease-what-breastfeeding-taught-me-about-s*xual-wellbeing

The Myth of Natural Ease: What Breastfeeding Taught Me About S*xual Wellbeing I remember believing that breastfeeding was the most natural thing in the world, something my body would instinctively know how to do. I took the breastfeeding class at the hospital, just like the birthing class, because my doctor recommended it and every first-time parent around me seemed to do the...

This month we reflect on how women are bombarded with messages that leave them believing they are deficient somehow...and then they blame themselves for how they feel and attempt to bear the burden alone to "fix" what isn't actually broken.

The Deficit Myth: How Morality, Media, and Medicine Have Framed Women as “Lacking” Earlier this year, I had a client return for some maintenance sessions after taking a pause from therapy. In her email explaining the reason for her break, she wrote courageously about her exhaustion from the constant cycle of self-improvement, from always trying to be better, or even just enough.Sh...