2019

• The ‘List’ – Goal creation in couples counseling
• “Control Yourself!” Who is being asked to control who?

2018

• Teenagers and Anxiety
• The Tide
• What is the Purpose of Government?
• Invalidating Communication | What not to do when offering emotional support
• Helping Diabetes Management in Teens | Identifying the barriers to achieving desired A1C
• Does laziness cause depression or does depression cause laziness?

2017

• Choice and quality of life | What choice, if removed, would most positively impact your well being?
• Solutions and Causes of Anxiety
• Concrete vs Abstract responsibility for teenagers
• Intentionality and Happiness | How life choices are impacted by purpose
• Double Binded Communication
• Addiction, Self-determination, Flow, Mindfulness, Culture, Emotional Intelligence, and Human Bonding
• The Relativity of Oppression
• The Relationship between Anxiety and Attention
• Do you Like your self when you are with this person?
• Bottom Up and Top Down interventions to support regulation
• Fear, Competence, Values and Anger in Parenting Rambunctious Children
• When Attachment Theory and Existentialism Compete
• Parenting Paradigm | a level system to conceptualize parenting strategies
• Happy Relationship – loving another as yourself – loving we to love me
• The Depression Bubble
• Early Childhood Questions to Promote Bonding
• Choice is Oppression
• Accepting, condoning, and boundaries
• A metaphor for the relationship between control and suffering
• Playful Communicative Connection Enactment
• Why Democracy Failed

2016

• What is the purpose of Marriage?

2015

• interregulation – a simpler explanation | regulating communication
• Parenting and Rowboats
• It is only fear
• Breathe before you help others to breathe
• Attunement Exercise

2014

• Hope in a space of Hopelessness
• Wind Blown Hair (Music Post)

2013

• I'm not alone (Music)
• Shed Your Old Skin (Music)
• Come to Carry us Home (music)
• Parenting Teens with Diabetes
• Stopping unwanted thoughts and daydreams
• Feedback loop in a Couples interaction
• Boy of the Fall (music post)
• What is a mentally healthy person? Characteristics of an emotionally, spiritually, and socially intelligent person.
• Is Depression the Result of Self-Centeredness?
• Feelings are important in growing consciousness – Existential and Mindfulness Based Emotional Reflection Therapy
• Reflection and Psychotherapy
• Systemics in Psychotherapy
• Democratically Denying Education – the internal flaw of democracy
• Integrity and Your Social Potential
• Scientism

2012

• The thoughts, emotions, and behaviors triangle
• Respecting Elders in a Society of Rugged Individualism
• Freedom from and Freedom to
• Hope affects outcome… why?

2011

• The difference between good intentions and good actions = understanding, humility, and empathy
• Face your Suffering on your way towards Freedom and Balance | The Effects of Resistance
• Adlerian psychotherapy – an overview
• What is a systemic approach in psychotherapy? Family systems theory intervention
• What is the Difference between a Psychologist, a Psychotherapist, a Psychiatrist, a Social Worker, a LPC, a LMFT, a LSCW, a PsyD, a PHD………
• Dialectics – open your mind and balance will occur naturally
• What are 'triggers' – automatic responces
• Overcoming feelings of Shame | Shame avoided will stay quite the same…
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy simplified
• Relationship Help | “My partner says that I don’t listen” | how to meet the emotional needs of your partner
• The Sex vs. Emotional Intimacy debate | how to make both partners feel loved in a relationship
• Authenticity and Stress | you are healthiest when you are your real self | “don’t plant corn in the sand”
• Relationship feel stuck? Try pretending that you don’t know everything about your partner
• Mind won’t stop ruminating? Take your shoes off to encourage a state of mindfulness
• Drink too much? Try being yourself in your life… choose to stop inhibiting yourself
• Overcoming anger | are you angry with another or are you truly angry with your self?
• Asking Clients Permission | offering choices to clients in counseling | tips for psychotherapists
• Asking for feedback in therapy | collaborative psychotherapy | empowering the client | tips for psychotherapists
• 30 Common questions psychotherapist should be able to answer succinctly | tips for therapists | how to market your private psychotherapy practice
• Teenage Drinking | Solving Youth Substance Abuse | restraint theory, individuation, overpopulation, cultural priorities and freewill
• Immediacy | tips for therapists | How to use immediacy | experiential techniques
• Weight loss – what does that food mean to you? Insight, reflection, and replacement in achieving weight loss goals.
• Parenting fundamentals – The basics for co-parenting your children
• Why should I focus on my Breathing? – Worry reduction.
• Realistic Weight Loss Work Sheet – Keep what you love, substitute and add where you can, and remove the unimportant
• Euphoria and gratitude… a runners high at 9,000 feet
• Forming Secure Attachments – Handout for parents and caregivers
• Components of the Obesity and Nutrition Problem in our Shared Country
• Why some fail to lose Weight – Restraint theory
• Synchronicity – The rattlesnake’s message of change and balance
• Jung’s Theory of Synchronicity, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
• Placebo effect – an underrated healer
• Addiction Intervention Debate | Increasing Freedom by fostering an increase in consciousness, reflective ability, and emotional availability | Is there always a choice or are certain stimuli too controlling?
• Support group for teens with type 1 diabetes
• An example of ‘Auras’ and ‘Energy’ for our left brained friends
• Compassionately Assertive – Maintaining Boundaries without Aggression – using empathy and clarity to get your needs met
• Parenting questions for couples – Questionnaire to increase synergy, collaboration, empathy, and overall understanding for couples who are co-parenting a child.
• ‘not -talked-about’ themes in Human Sexuality – normalizing
• Play therapy explained | How to use play therapy | Attuning to your child | how and why it works
• Balanced Boundaries – a metaphor about giving and taking for the health of yourself and others
• Alcohol use and marital satisfaction
• What is empathy? How do I know if I am experiencing empathy?
• Existentialism in Psychotherapy
• pathologizing, labels, dichotomies, existentialism and acceptance
• Anger and Arguments – Are you defending the topic or your self?
• Existential Recovery – Emotional freedom inherent in the choice of meaning
• Empathy building exercise – learning to be empathetic – increasing emotional understanding
• Vengeance and the Ego
• The Evolution of CBT = Mindfulness – moving from changing projections to eliminating projections
• Past goals driving current choices? – Overcoming your inner teenager
• Who are you? How to stop conforming to expectations and to start presenting the self you would like to present
• Problems sleeping? 10 Tips to help you sleep
• Overcoming addiction to substance – find a replacement behavior that offers a comparable result – hope involves you being both reasonable and honest with yourself
• Setting realistic expectations and living within those realistic expectations…
• Premarital counseling questions | life long commitment questionnaire | questions for a long & happy relationship
• Strength Based Therapy – what it means
• Understanding how your Values impact the choices that you make
• Narrative therapy summary
• Creating Motivation for the Change Process – Why creating a mental image of the ‘new you’ works
• The Oppression of Creativity and Progression – How regulation, oversight, managed care, and “Big Brother” oppress growth
• Logical Reason to Change – The Inevitability of Anxiety Whether You Change or Not
• What does LPC, LSW, LMFT, PsyD, PHD, LCSW, MD, MS, MA stand for?
• Why might we be misinformed about human sexuality?
• What is Transference in psychotherapy – placing emotional reactions related to another onto the therapist
• What is Love? How do I know if I am in love or have experienced love? Love is selflessness and felt security… love is also a physical and emotional feeling
• 7 Health and Weight loss tips from a psychotherapist who is married to a nutritionist
• Why are people Defensive? Reducing the anxiety of change
• Some stress is best left
• Changing unhelpful beliefs – "If ____________ then I will be happy"
• What is the meaning of Life? – To live… consciousness of consciousness in existence
• Psychotherapy Forum – Start a new Topic and Join the Discussion in the Wellness Forum
• Mindfulness Interventions for Both the Therapist and the Client to Increase Therapeutic Effectiveness When Treating Trauma
• Human Sexuality and Stress Management
• Reducing suffering – How trying to avoid or control suffering often increases suffering – When to act and when to accept without action
• Guided Visualization for Emotional Resiliency – comforting a younger you
• Structural family therapy summary
• Tips for getting your Attachment needs met in your adult relationships
• Argumentative? Dichotomies in conversations lead to arguments not solutions
• Does being drunk make you uninhibited? | alcohol, authenticity and primal instinct
• Authentic Self – Are you the work you or the outside of work you?
• Do Therapists get Therapy? | Controlling bias and counter-transference in counseling
• How do you find the right therapist for you?
• Allowing and Believing
• Courage to use your Strength to attend to your Fear
• ‘The Good Enough Sex Model’ (Metz and MaCarthy 2007) – a review and summary
• Meditative Breath – focusing on the expansion and contraction of your chest and stomach.
• The Science behind Emotional Intelligence: literature review
• Narrative therapy: the externalization of perception
• Michele Weiner Davis’s ‘Divorce Busting’ – a response
• Solution Focused Therapy simplified
• Empathy – nature and nurture
• A subtle difference between Narrative and Cognitive psychotherapy
• 'narrative means to theraputic ends' – book summary and review
• Rogerian (or Person Centered) therapy summary
• Combined Wellness intervention
• Gestalts vs. Math and deductive reasoning
• Is it ‘cheesy’ to be positive?
• Fear of Snakes is from the fear of snakes
• Love with the mind, the body and the spirit
• Ignorance is Bliss?
• Anti-dogmatic types have a dogma themselves
• A subjective interpretation of Jesus’ message about the forgiveness of sin…
• Postmodernism – making an ‘out there’ philosophy useful
• Chaos is the result of resisting what is
• Selfishness is also Selfless

2010

• Motivation v.s. Dedication … Can dedication be created?
• Love is something we experience with our emotions
• Labels, identification, and judgments from an existential view
• Forgiveness is the Heart of Justice
• Fear
• Forgiveness
• Chaos, structure, rigidity, compassion and acceptance
• Journaling for health, for context, for hope, for expression and for awareness
• Gestalt Psychotherapy – an overview
• Spend your energy on that which you can truly influence
• the 7 things you need to create meaningful change – precursors of change
• Attachment – why we say and emote one way when we truly feel and think a different way
• The Talking Cure for Trauma – holding freedom – you are the lotus
• ‘Empirically based practice’ has been proven irrelevant to therapy outcomes – empirically
• Stating your internal feelings – acknowledge for acceptance – resistance is suffering
• Past blame or “whose fault it is” and on to solutions
• Externalization – you are with the problem… you are separate from the problem
• Motivation to Exercise – why it is hard and how to make it easier
• Harmful Interaction Patterns – which do you do and what can help?
• Mindfulness Exercise – notice your senses without judgment =54321 present
• Can you be too close? – Enmeshment and automatic emotions transfer
• Ineffective Solution Strategies – without a simplified problem, a solution is unlikely
• Trauma – What happens to a person who has experienced trauma and why.
• Wellness with euphoria… sometimes what you want…you may already have
• Mindfulness – Why it is helpful and what 'being in the present moment' means
• Existentialism – meaning, meaninglessness and your life
• Timeouts for adults – conflict resolution and avoidance strategies
• Genograms – reducing blame and finding solutions in your family tree
• Mantras while you exercise – increase your awareness of your present surroundings
• Why Feeling Questions? – Emotional Expression Enhances Bonding
• Talking with Teens– Try using authentic open-minded empathetic curiosity.
• Relationship Sexually Stuck? – A look at your unwritten rules of engagement.
• My Dog – the personal trainer
• The interdependence of dependence and independence
• Argumentative? – substitute the word "but" for "and"