I am feeling very humbled these days. I have been told two times in the past 3 months that I should become a supervisor, mentor, or other such person that provides guidance and support to those up and coming in the counseling profession. And charge a nice fee for it too! For the most part, [...]

Do people really change? Or is it more of a problem in adapting or transitioning from one developmental stage to another? I ask this question because of the recent behavior of the elderly that I have been noticing of late. Upon vacationing at my mother’s retirement home she had build 7 years ago in a [...]

Have I totally gone soft as a parent? Am I expecting too much, being too judgmental? I don’t know what to make of this. I just found out that spanking your children is not against the law. The woman taking my report of suspected child abuse at children’s protective services told me this information. After [...]

I mean, I’m not a medical doctor or anything, but sometimes the best remedies are so basic. I remember the first time I laughed during a session with my client. My client, an intelligent professional woman with two small pre-school aged children was going through a crisis in her marriage. Her husband was having emotional [...]

I’ve always struggled with self-esteem issues but you wouldn’t know that unless I told you. I think we all do from time to time. It happens less and less often, thank goodness. I remember telling myself that no one would ever “take” my self-esteem from me about 15 years ago when I was working at [...]

You’ve heard of the game of curling, haven’t you? If you watched the 2010 Winter Olympics you may have seen it. It is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. The team uses brooms to maneuver the stone by altering the ice either by sweeping quickly [...]

Typically a person seeks treatment because of external motivators: the courts, the schools, the parents, the angry spouse. Think about it…a person is going to tell me that something is wrong with me and I don’t think that there is. Yeah, sign me up for that! I’m calling for an appointment tomorrow. And in addition [...]

Have you ever been to an AA meeting?  Do you drink?  Are you a recovering addict?  These are just some of the questions that I readily recall I am asked by clients I counsel for substance abuse treatment.  Oftentimes I’m enlightened.  According to some clients, a person can’t really help an addict unless they’ve been [...]