by Jeff Levy | Dec 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Last week in the graduate social work class I am teaching, we had a conversation arise about whether it was acceptable to offer a client a box of Kleenex when they are crying. One supervisor had told a student not to offer Kleenex because in an implicit way, it...
by Jeff Levy | Dec 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
I was in a session with my physical therapist recently, and she was talking about chronic pain. She explained how when we have an injury or some type of condition that causes chronic pain, we begin to move in ways that protect us from triggering this pain. For...
by Jeff Levy | Dec 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
When a potential client calls Live Oak and speaks to our intake staff, we ask a host of questions to connect the client with one of our therapists who, based on the client’s concerns, is the most appropriate and best fit we can find. We’ll ask about reasons for...
by Jeff Levy | Dec 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
It’s almost always the case that one of the tasks of therapy is to foster or restore a sense of hope. We often seek therapy because we have exhausted other avenues for healing, or the ways we have soothed ourselves in the past don’t work the way they used to. Hope...
by Jeff Levy | Dec 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
In reviewing these past several months of blog posts, I realized that I have mentioned both my mother and father a number of times, often referring to their old age or their deaths, which occurred nine and seven years ago respectively. I began to think more about how...
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