When our partner is upset, we often take it personally, which makes sense in the moment but can often make things worse.

Traveling the globe for celestial events may seem downright loony—until you get a taste of the addictive world of ‘eclipse chasing’

In therapy we first learn to identify the areas of our lives we'd like to change, but then comes the hard part: making that change happen.

Many queer people are going no contact — cutting off their families for myriad reasons. It’s not always the right answer.

Intake Information: Clients are 33 year old men who are business partners, and have reached out for couples therapy to help resolve issues regarding their work, identifying a difference of opinion abo...

Couples who seek therapy for help dealing with conflict in their relationships often measure the pain of being in the relationship versus the pain of not.

In a recent piece on the World Cup, Phil Stark was incorrectly identified as a "wannabe comedian." It turns out that he is actually a professional comedian — and he has a joke to prove it.

Personal Perspective: Part of a therapist's job is not to interpret what the client says, but to simply reflect it back, so the client can do the interpreting.

The Characters On My Couch takes you behind the closed door of a therapist’s office for a collection of therapy sessions with pop culture’s most famously troubled figures.

Dude, Where's My Car? was a comedic hit in 2000 and has become classic in the years since. Just ahead of the film's 25th anniversary, screenwriter Phil Stark looks back at it as a comedy and as a mome...

Parents and gardening are similar in how people learn to balance between providing support and instilling self-reliance.

Phil Stark,  screenwriter and licensed therapist, talks about his latest book, How to Be a Screenwriter, covering how to network, get an agent, develop with producers and take notes.

Examining the various parts of ourselves can lead to a better understanding of how our inner child can often be in conflict with the needs and goals of our adult selves.

YouTube video by Roadmap Writers

YouTube video by Roadmap Writers

Sadie and Jeanne chat (yet again) with the fabulous screenwriter-turned-therapist Phil Stark (Dude, Where's My Car, "That 70s Show," "South Park") about his new book How to Be a Screenwriter.There's t...

There's a saying that, in life, we must play the cards we're dealt. We often say this when we're in a bad situation and feel like we just have to deal with it. But do we?

We often think that sex leads to intimacy, and while this can be true, it's more often the case that it's the other way around.

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Conflict in relationships can be mitigated by developing a greater awareness of what we really feel and why, and then communicating this information clearly and effectively.

In 2000, the author was a young screenwriter writing broad, crude humor to sell into a marketplace that valued it. Then offers dried up. Today, he's quit Hollywood to become a therapist.

YouTube video by International Screenwriters' Association

... first, write that script. But it takes more than the script.

Screenwriter/therapist Phil Stark offers essential mental health advice for writers: beat the inner critic, overcome imposter syndrome, and fight burnout.