Do you ever wonder where a lot of the pain we experience comes from? In our relationships, in our country, in our world? There seems to be no shortage of it. As a therapist, I get a front row seat to the daily pain in people’s lives.Pain is an age-old...
Posted by Daniel Lawson, LMHC, CASAC
We are missing out on the true joy that Christ has in store for our lives....
Posted by Janice Carbon, LCSW
Facebook has this nifty feature in which you can view what happened in the past on that very day. Often I've forgotten what happened 6 or 7 years ago, sometimes even a year ago. Sometimes I laugh, but on one particular day of the summer, my memories...
Posted by Jane McGill, LPC
Professional Christian Counseling is a wonderful specialization in which the psychologically trained licensed mental health professional integrates their knowledge, skills and abilities with their Christian faith, values and beliefs. It's a match made...
Posted by Steven Kopor, MA, MBA, LPC-S, LCDC
You suspect that an adolescent has self-inflicted cutting injuries and you are naturally alarmed. This behavior is known as self-mutilation and the most common form is cutting. What is cutting? Cutting is one way in which a person uses self-harm as a...
Posted by Dana Nygaard, MA, LPC
Earlier this summer I had entered the lobby of my small office building and noticed the plant in the far corner was almost dead. I could tell from looking at the poor guy that it had not been watered for several weeks based on the hard, dry soil, the...
Posted by Jane McGill, LPC
“Her fireman died.” These were the poignant words of my toddler son, as he pointed to a woman in the grocery store. Of course, he was not aware of the weight of his statement. The woman was his teacher at a church school the...
There is a joke about parenting that goes like this: "You spend the first two years teaching your children how to walk and talk, and the next sixteen telling them to sit down and be quiet." Yes, once they can say what they want and go where they want...
Posted by Lawrence Nichta, Jr., PhD
This is a common lament of frustrated parents who drag their child to see a therapist. The parents are seeking the help of a counselor typically because they are at their wit’s end. They are most likely overwhelmed with feelings of hopelessness, desperation...
Posted by Dana Nygaard, MA, LPC
