Ask Dr. Darcy

Answers to your mental health questions, from an expert in adolescence, parenting, and the LGBT community.
Darcy Sterling, Ph.D.

5 Rules For LGBT Dating

LGBT's have unique dating challenges. Tired of the same old results? Follow these rules for a different outcome!
Breaching The Boundary

Breaching The Boundary

A New Zealand therapist-in-training writes to Dr. Darcy asking if it's acceptable for her to date her former patient.
5 Things We Can Learn from Kim Kardashian’s Marriage

5 Things We Can Learn from Kim Kardashian’s Marriage

Purposeless

Purposeless

A 29-year old turns to advice from Dr. Darcy after realizing that she has no goals and is not where she wants to be in life.

Father’s Day For The Fatherless

Father's Day can be challenging for those of us who have no father to honor. Here are some quick tips on making Father's Day a healing and peaceful experience.

Least Likely To Succeed

Society is obsessed with a particular type of academic ability while virtually dismissing all other types of intelligence. Our educational system is essentially a mill; a system that loses so many of our kids. Knowing that society depends on diversity, how do we justify our high value on conformity?

The Price, and Myth, of Multitasking

Society nearly demands that members of our workforce multitask. Yet study after study confirms that multitasking is impossible.
Lesbian Bed Death CPR

Lesbian Bed Death CPR

What I Learned From The Naked Therapist

What I Learned From The Naked Therapist

Teen Transitions

Teen Transitions

My Daughter's An Average Student: Help!

My Daughter's An Average Student: Help!

Why is it important to you for your daughter to be academically competitive in high school? Let me guess: You want her to get into a top-tier college. And you want her to get into a top-tier college because you believe that graduating from a top-tier college will set her up for success.
5 Tips To Increase Resilience

5 Tips To Increase Resilience

Exhausted? Low Sex Drive? Brain Fog? Find Out Why.

Exhausted? Low Sex Drive? Brain Fog? Find Out Why.

Sex, stress, and the desire to avoid burnout.
Finance Anxiety

Finance Anxiety