Rites of Passage

“Will it be a tree or a new garden?” my partner asked me two weeks ago. For the past 15 years, we have been planting as a way to acknowledge and memorialize people and animals in our lives we have loved and lost. The question we ask now is not “what do we do to...

A Love for Couples

I love doing couples work. I had not worked with couples before I started working at Live Oak.  Most graduate social work programs provide minimal training in this area, so my exposure was limited.   I had always been so interested in and focused upon doing...

How Does Psychotherapy Help the Brain?

Psychological approaches to mental health—like psychotherapy—and biological approaches to mental health—like the medications prescribed by physicians—address many of the same human problems from different directions.  It is a mistake to think of ourselves as merely...

How Does Psychotherapy Help?

I will be answering this question in a short video that will be available soon at http://projectpsychotherapy.blogspot.com.  My thoughts here are a version of what I plan to say less formally in the video. Psychotherapy helps by offering a unique place in which to...