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Love and Service.
Thanks for dropping by my blog page. As the introduction notes, I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Psychiatric Technician, and Masters level Addictions Counselor in Pasadena,...
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What to Do?
From P.16 of the PDF “Statutes and Regulations” from the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (the regulatory agency that oversees MFTs, Social Workers, and etc): “§4980. NECESSITY OF LICENSE (a)...
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Preaching Prudence but Practicing Evasion
Just by virtue of having eyes and ears, we have emotional responses to everything. When we have experiences that create loss, damage, violate our sense of self or ethics (prompt an experience of...
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Attitude of Platitude
Talking with a client the other day, the subject of platitudes came up. Many of us use them routinely. Whether opining about inferences made, used polemically, or giving feedback to a friend or loved...
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Therapy, Counseling, Mental Health: Some Things that Keep Us in Work
As I’ve said before, I try to work in the spirit that it’s my job to put me out of a job. There’s some things I see pretty often though, that seem to be both counter intuitive and appear to keep me...
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Difficulties, Diagnoses, the DSM.
In a New York Times Op-Ed piece from today, one of the leads on the DSM-IV (the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual”, the current edition of an industry standard tool for mental health, primer here)...
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7400 Hours, Psychology, Clinical Supervision
About three years ago, my friend and colleague Judy McGehee LMFT (Partners in Recovery) began a supervision program for Marriage and Family Therapist interns (people that have completed their...
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What the Heck is “Euthymia”, and Why Should I Care?
Before getting into details, let’s make note of this: I’m altering the definition of the term as a way of creating a framework that allows us to look at something we don’t hear enough about in...
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