posted: May 15, 2022.

I think therapy at its best is a precedent or companion to a spiritual path. People of various religious and spiritual traditions have used time in therapy to clear their Read more

posted: Apr. 15, 2022.

Where do we go for our own therapy? Some of us will drive hours so we can meet with someone we won't ever see at the grocery store. Some of Read more

posted: Mar. 15, 2022.

Rumi says: "Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there." Your patients and colleagues have zero interest in meeting you in that Read more

posted: Jan. 15, 2022.

Maybe you own a small business or a private practice. Maybe you're a public defender or government lawyer, a Chief Anything Officer of a startup or an established corporation, an Read more

posted: Feb. 02, 2019.

***If you're feeling suicidal Dial 988***   The Journey by Mary Oliver   One day you finally knew  what you had to do, and began,  though the voices around you  kept shouting  their Read more

posted: Dec. 06, 2018.

All parents struggle to balance their normal current stressors -- friends and family, body and mind, household and job -- with their parenting responsibilities. But on top of that for Read more

posted: Oct. 09, 2018.

This November, it will be decade ago that I got my first paycheck as a Licensed Professional Counselor. Here are some things I've realized in that time through a combination Read more

posted: May 19, 2017.

Did you ever see the movie, What the Bleep Do We Know...? It's really good, so I highly recommend it. It's a 'quantum physics for dummies' deal for people like Read more

posted: May 01, 2017.

I love it when life gives me the opportunity to apply mental health strategies in my own world that I spend my days encouraging others to apply in theirs. Said Read more

posted: Feb. 16, 2017.

The pessimistic energy we give to thoughts and rants about how wrong everything is eclipses our view of the conditions for constructive change that are there and waiting - likely Read more

posted: Nov. 30, 2016.

According to trauma researcher and clinician, Bessel van der Kolk, we are all living testimonials to events that are no longer happening. Ideally, we are functional testimonials — healthy and Read more

posted: Nov. 30, 2016.

For many, holidays mark a time for family, food, warmth, conversation, celebration, and abundance. For many if not more of us, they are tinged with dissatisfaction or irritability if not Read more

posted: Feb. 26, 2016.

The plastic soap dish on my bathroom sink was gunky and driving me nuts. I kept not dealing with it. Every night I would use the little bar of soap Read more

posted: Feb. 22, 2016.

I'm imagining a spectrum of attention that ranges from a willingness to notice, to a willingness to tolerate, to a willingness to stay near or with, to a willingness to Read more

posted: Feb. 13, 2016.

Here's a multiple choice exercise for you that you won't find anywhere else. Please complete these sentences:(1) If you're thirsty, you...(a) deny you are thirsty and go watch Netflix.(b) admit Read more