I have long known, both as an individual and as a therapist, that personal control is a challenging notion for all of us. Control is a gift and wonderful feature of being human. In psychology they refer to this as ‘agency’. It’s our capacity to direct our life and efforts. But it is not lost […]
For Catholics and other Christian’s we are now in the season of Lent. Growing up in the Catholic Church this was a typical and predictable part of the year for us. But if you were not a Church goer, or with no Christian religious history or knowledge, Lent certainly seems strange. Right from the start […]
Anyone studying to become a mental health practitioner learns the term ‘biopsychosocial’.It’s a mouthful but captures the essence of understanding the dimensions of the challenges affecting an individual’s life. Clinicians are given the task of understanding what organic issues are at play for a new client. Are there biological issues at work affecting the person’s […]
Across the several decades of my life here in the U.S., I have experienced multiple times of social and cultural disturbances. There was the heat of my World War II parent’s generation over the disruptions of the 1960’s. There was the horrific assassination of President Kennedy, followed by the fear and anger over the war […]