Maternal Substance Abuse and its Impact on Adolescent Daughters
Writing about such an important topic has prompted me to reflect on the adolescent girls with whom I have worked in multiple…
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Healing from Nature Deficit Disorder, Part I
This is the first installment in a two-part series dealing with the adverse repercussions of isolation from nature on our mental-emotional health,…
A Counselor’s Perspective: Dual Diagnosis
We’ve all either performed or reviewed client initial screenings, biopsychosocial assessments, and doctor’s coordination of care notes. And we see it too—clients…
Spirituality vs. Religious Extremism
Many of you might remember that in early 1998 I wrote a book called When God Becomes a Drug. In some ways…
When Do the Good Times Start?
Change, therapy, treatment, counseling, recovery, inpatient, outpatient, group therapy, meditation, self-actualization, meetings, neuroscience, mindfulness, and my favorite, a personal growth experience; when…