© 2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

People with High Conflict tendencies or characteristics are popping up everywhere these days. From high conflict divorce, to sexual harassment in the workplace, to leaders of countries threatening nuclear war! In my newest book, 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life,...

©2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

For the past twenty years I have been studying and teaching about 'people with high-conflict characteristics and how to manage them in legal disputes, workplace disputes, neighbor disputes and other situations. People with high-conflict characteristics have a narrow pers...

© 2019 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. ©2019

This is an increasingly important question in many areas of modern life, including in love relationships, in the workplace and in legal disputes. Major decisions are often made by assuming that someone will or won’t change their negative behaviors. Yet there are many fac...

©2020 Andrea La Rochelle

My ego can get the best of me.  Like, full on, I’m right – you’re wrong, ego.  Full on ‘Andrea, you are small, incapable and useless.’ It doesn’t happen often anymore and when it does happen, it passes quickly.  THANK HEAVENS.

But you know where my ego still trips me up???...

Is everything a battle with your ex-partner, spouse, or your child’s other parent? Are there ways you can better manage a high conflict divorce or custody conflict? Mediator and attorney Stephen McDonough shows us how:

As a Massachusetts divorce and family law lawyer and mediator, I am in the confl...

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW, shares his insights into all-too-common issues in high-conflict divorces and promotes the spirit and intent of the BIFF Response®. 

Have you ever been in Court when a judge loses it? I mean the judge really cannot contain him/herself anymore when one of the parties won’t s...

© 2016 by Deborah S. Lyons, Ph.D.

Lately I’ve found myself at one of those nodal points in life where we examine past decisions with a willingness to take risks and address the problem in a new and different way.   One such arena for me was the manner in which I market myself as a psychologist, and...

© 2015 Andrea LaRochelle, RFM

I’m done. I quit. I can’t do this anymore. I give up. It’s exhausting trying to raise children with someone who hates you. And you’re done. Done fighting. Done placating. Done brainstorming ways to make it better. Done taking the high road.

Divorce is hard at the best...

© 2016 by Shawn Skillin, Esq, mediator and HCI speaker

I get calls all the time from one spouse who is in a great big hurry to get divorced. And that’s OK. But, the other spouse is often in exactly the opposite frame of mind. Why is that and how do you deal with it?  What does the law say?

Let’s d...