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Last week I finished teaching a trauma course for students pursuing their graduate degree in social work. More than

Endings have been a topic of conversation at Live Oak recently, as our current group of graduate interns and ...

I received a phone call earlier this week from Ray, a long time client.  He rarely calls between sessions so when I

Abby shot up from her seat and ran out of my office.  I asked her to stop and tell me what was wrong, but she left ...

“I don’t have anything to report,” Joel said to me as we began our session.  This had become our beginning ritual, ...

I recently received an email from a client thanking me for the work we have done together and telling me how much ...

“I feel worse leaving this session than I did when I came in,” Paul said through tears in his eyes.  “Therapy is ...

I’ve never been great with silence.  In my own life, I am known to be listening to music while working at my ...

Last week in the graduate social work class I am teaching, we had a conversation arise about whether it was ...

I was in a session with my physical therapist recently, and she was talking about chronic pain.  She explained how ...