Family Therapy – Basic Steps Mental Health

Are You Enlightened?

Scott Alpert — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:00:44 +0000

If you think you are enlightened, go home for the holidays. Well, at least that was the joke they told us in grad school. Family has a way of pushing our buttons even if you believe you are an ascended master. After years and years of personal growth, I recently went home for the holidays […]

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Family Therapy

Scott Alpert — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:30:55 +0000

According to the Family Systems Theory, your current relationships are influenced by your family of origin. If you have problems with communication, and closeness, or get frustrated easily, take a look back and see how your family acted while you were growing up. To make a profound change, Family Systems Theory believes that the family […]

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Becoming an Equal

Scott Alpert — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:00:00 +0000

We are all the same. Nobody is above or below us. Until we realize that we are all in this family of life together, we can learn to bridge the gap between people, countries, and this world. Such a lofty way of looking at life, many would think, but when you get right down to […]

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Family Sculpting

Scott Alpert — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:30:11 +0000

I’ve learned a few rather obscure tools in the 29 years I have been practicing psychotherapy. I guess the most obscure tool is from Family Systems Therapy designed by Virgina Satir. There are more common approaches that lean on the obscure side and my favorite would be from Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP). NLP addresses our inner […]

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Helping our Children

Scott Alpert — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 06:25:07 +0000

The pandemic has wreaked havoc on our nation in many ways. Now the latest report is the devastation it has caused for our children. For a child to grow up normally, they need love and attention from their primary caregivers – usually their parents, they need to have fun, and they need their social needs […]

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Is Your Family of Origin Sick?

Scott Alpert — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 21:12:48 +0000

According to Object Relations Therapy, all mental illness has its roots in early childhood experiences. If your family was dysfunctional, there are great odds that this was passed down to you. Do your relationships mirror the relationship your parents had? Do you fight? Do you avoid any confrontations? Is it important for you to be […]

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Family Therapy – When a Family Member is Sick

Scott Alpert — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 02:49:20 +0000

When a family member is sick it puts the whole family system out of balance. The good news is – this can be used as an opportunity for the entire family to heal. In this article, we take a look at Family Therapy. They believe that when somebody is sick the family is looked upon […]

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