About Neil
Neil Rosenthal is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Denver/ Boulder, Colorado, specializing in how people strengthen their intimate relationships. He is a nationally and internationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His column "Relationships" appears every week in the Vail Daily, the Wellington (New Zealand) Dominion-Post, The Resident in Connecticut, the Daily Times-Call in Longmont, Colorado as well as a variety of other newspapers around the world. The "Relationships" column is in it's 18th year, having run in the Denver Post, the Boulder Daily Camera, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the Oregonian in Portland, the San Diego Union Tribune, the San Jose Mercury News, the London (Ontario) Free Press and a large variety of other newspapers in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Regularly interviewed by the media, Rosenthal has appeared as an expert on ABC, NBC, Fox TV and Radio New Zealand. He has been listed in The Directory of Distinguished Americans, Who's Who, Men of Achievement, Personalities of the Americas, and Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America. Neil Rosenthal taught at the University of Colorado in Boulder for 13 years, and has been a three time president of the Colorado Association for Humanistic Psychology. He founded the Denver Free University in 1969, which became the largest adult education institution in the United States during the 1970's and 80's. He was student body president at The University of Denver from 1969-1970. Neil is a former elementary school teacher, and lives in the mountains outside Boulder.
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Neil Rosenthal
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Relationship Expert
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Featured Articles
Dear Neil: My fiancé and I are fighting a lot with each other, and that’s thrown our wedding—scheduled for later this year—into serious question. Is there a secret for how to know if we can be compatible with each other? We have a lot of common interests and similar tastes in music, Italian food and gourmet...
Dear Neil: Thanks for your recent column on anger. What’s been fascinating for me is to realize how ill-equipped I am to having any reaction other than anger or feeling like a doormat. Learning to rein in anger is freeing, but if people who have relied on anger for power don’t have any other readily available choices...
Through the years as a marriage therapist, I have been asked a countless number of times: “We were so wild about each other. So much in love. So passionate. How could we have possibly grown this cold and distant from each other?”
There are a variety of answers to the above question. Below are the top ways...
If you were to give yourself a grade for how effective, how responsive and how loving you behave in your relationship, what would that grade be?
Better yet, break the above question down into smaller segments. On an A B C D F scale, using (+) or (– ) to more fully adjust your grade, what grade in your relationship would you give...
Do you have a guarded heart? Do you have a wall around your heart that prohibits genuine intimacy, even with the people you love and feel closest to?
Take this quiz to find out:
- Do you get angry a lot with your mate, even over small things?
- Do you tend to be mistrusting, only to discover that your mistrust...
