• Bridge to Wholeness | Volume 2 Issue 5 May 2015

    Welcome to the May 2015 Issue of the Agape newsletter, Bridge to Wholeness! Our monthly newsletter is the best way for you to keep up with what is going on around Agape, with events and updates, and articles written by our counselors. We hope it will help bring you a…

  • Intimate Communication Lets Talk About Sex

    Intimate Communication: Let’s Talk About Sex

    When a couple is in a long-term monogamous relationship, symptoms affecting sexuality as the result of medical issues, chronic illness or disability, or even natural aging, are inevitable. Naturally, as we pass through life, our bodies experience physiological changes which affect our sexual functioning. Physiological changes might include pregnancy and…

  • Adressing Sexual Intimacy in Therapy

    Addressing Sexual Intimacy in Therapy

    Claire (not her real name), was a young vibrant woman in her mid thirties : Kathy, I just don’t know why I’m here. I feel anxious all the time. I’m not sleeping well.  I’m exhausted. All my energy goes toward work and the baby. There is nothing left for my…

  • Commitment, Intimacy, and Fun

    by Tai Yong, MA, LPC, NCC Yale University psychologist Robert Sternberg did some pioneering work that attempted to answer the question, “What is love?”  He came up with a “Triangular Theory of Love,” which says that there are three elements to love: passion, intimacy, and commitment.  One might say that…