Roni Weisberg-Ross LMFT

Loving Your Abuser

Recognizing you are being abused is difficult when you love the person who is abusing you. This is true for both children and adults. The mind will go to great lengths to protect a person who cannot emotionally accept that they are being abused. The great... Read >

Elder Abuse, Alzheimers and Our Aging Population

While taken seriously enough to be a legally reportable offense categorized alongside child abuse as either a misdemeanor or a felony - elder abuse does not seem to be taken as seriously by the public. Perhaps elders do not appear to be as helpless as chi... Read >

The Emotional Life of Adolescent Abuse - A Daughter’s Poetry

The following words and poetry were written by Kallel Hunter. She has graciously allowed me to share them with you. My name is Kallel and I am 13 years old. I live in the U.K. and have Irish, Jamaican and Barbadian in me. I also have two sisters a... Read >

Adult Bullies

"All cruelty springs from weakness" (Seneca, 4BC-AD65) There are those who say that bullying is behind all forms of violence, conflict, persecution, abuse, harassment, discrimination and prejudice. The recent death of Phoebe Prince, the 15-year-old ... Read >

Women Battering Men - The Other Side of Domestic Abuse

Let's begin by talking about Domestic Abuse - how it is regarded and dealt with in our culture. As a psych intern I was taught that we must report Child Abuse, Elder Abuse, a credible threat by one individual to physically harm another or a credible threa... Read >

The Enabling Parent

A while back, I jotted down some thoughts about a person I called "The Other Parent". Since then, I've been collecting information and have concluded that there is a dearth of material on this subject. But I have expanded upon my initial ideas and hopef... Read >