Identifying Your Values
Knowing what you value is an important part of any type of healing, growing, and setting goals. This is often an overlooked as a potential avenue to growth, and a barrier that can keep us in a stagnan ...
New Years Resolution Quick Guide
New Years Resolution time has fast approached. As a therapist who pushes people to make goals for themselves, I enjoy the benefits of this time, but also dread the problems that such a yearly landma ...
Dealing with Complacency
In substance abuse counseling and couples counseling, one of the most common issues is complacency. This can wreak havoc in peoples' lives, and largely goes unnoticed as an issue. People get overconfi ...
Inspiration From Within
When working with clients who have had a traumatic or undesirable past where they were victims of others, I have noticed that many of them will use anger as their primary motivator to reaching their g ...
New Years Resolutions: The Psychology of Calendar Landmarks
With New Years upon us, it is inevitable that many of you will be making New Years Resolutions. It seems to be a human, or at least a cultural behavior to set up goals along with calendar landmarks. “ ...