Dear Dr. Toni: I have been reading your column for about a year and was wondering if you have any nutritional advice for recovery. I know you are a therapist, but thought I would ...
My colleagues and I were one of the first groups in the US to develop treatment services for patients with substance use disorders (SUDs) and co-occurring psychiatric disorders (CODs). This was a difficult process that ...
In behavioral health the terms “client” or “patient” are used to describe people receiving treatment services. The differences are often related to the type of the provider’s profession or license. Consumers of services provided by ...
This column was inspired by an article by Dr. Stephen Sideroff titled “Self-Regulation and Stress Coping at the Foundation of Resilience Recovery” appearing in the October 2016 issue of Counselor, and a talk on “Resiliency ...
“As someone who has paid very close attention to men’s experiences with relationships, I know how challenging it is for men to develop the skills necessary to create and maintain healthy intimate connections. Moreover, I ...
“I’m not putting this together for those so entrenched in the dogma of their own ‘side’ that they will reject anything that confronts the construct through which they view this issue. I’m writing for those ...
In part one of this column I discussed grief of family members who lost loved ones to addiction. I discussed how we lose our loved ones in many ways: Active addiction, which takes center ...
This is the second and final installment in a series focusing on cultivating the quality of deep-seated contentment, which constitutes an integral component in enhancing our recovery from alcoholism, drug addiction, other addictive disorders. This ...
Dear Dr. Toni, I am a fifty-seven-year-old man who’s been in recovery for five years. I’ve never been married but I’ve had many relationships with women romantically. I’m a very giving person and seem ...
Since Counselor’s primary objective is to provide our readership with tools to be more effective addiction and mental health counselors and therapists, we rarely venture into today’s most pertinent issues affecting all of us who ...
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