Healing – Basic Steps Mental Health

The Dynamics of Change

BasicStepsAdmin — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:00:41 +0000

It takes real commitment to change old habits and familiar ways of looking at life. Our brains hardwire automatic responses—which we often experience as our personality. So often in sessions I hear people say, “That’s just the way I am,” or “I’m just an angry, anxious, or depressed person.” If you continue to convince yourself […]

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What to Look for in Counseling

Scott Alpert — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:00:56 +0000

This article is written for people who have never attended counseling or who have tried it and found that it didn’t work. There are many factors that can cause treatment to fail. Let’s look at the obvious ones. You didn’t like the counselor. In counseling, it is important to create a “therapeutic bond.” If people […]

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Ask Your Therapist: How Do We Heal?

Scott Alpert — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:05:11 +0000

If you are looking for a therapist, ask them, “How do we heal?” It is important to find out their theory of healing before you enter their counseling room. Unfortunately, this isn’t the question potential clients ask me—they want to know if their insurance will pay the bill. I ask you to decide one of […]

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The Basic Steps of Counseling

Scott Alpert — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:00:48 +0000

We have a new intern at Basic Steps Mental Health, and I thought it would be helpful to write out the basic steps of being a therapist for them. Then it dawned on me that writing an article on this would be helpful for anybody interested in the healing arts. For those who do not […]

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Freeing Your Mind

Scott Alpert — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:03:49 +0000

I realized I have been trying to spread the news of Spiritual Psychology for 32 years. For the past 10 years, I have been writing these articles, now numbering in the hundreds. It is exciting to share something that drastically impacted my life, and because of it, I transformed from a drug addict to owning […]

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What’s the Point?

Scott Alpert — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:57:26 +0000

“What’s the point?” said a client to me the other day. How about you? How many times have you felt like giving up? I have found that people with a history of things not going their way assume that everything in their life will go bad. But this doesn’t have to be the case. What […]

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Common Relationship Problems

Scott Alpert — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:51:47 +0000

Relationships take a lot of work to keep alive, fresh, and upbeat. You would think that falling in love was all that is needed, but to be honest, when two people connect, they bring with them their doubts, fears, and unresolved issues. Maneuvering through this can bring heartache if one doesn’t know the proper tools. […]

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The 12 “Basic Steps” to Issue Resolution

Scott Alpert — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:00:48 +0000

It had been 15 years since I was reunited with my paperwork from school. Like an ancient treasure that I vaguely remembered, all of the handouts we used at the University of Santa Monica lay before my grubby hands! I was over the moon with excitement because what lay before me changed me from a […]

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Self-Care and Mental Health

Scott Alpert — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:09:30 +0000

If we treated ourselves with respect, the majority of our problems would improve. Even though this states the obvious, it is not as simple as it sounds. Why don’t you take the ultimate care of yourself? Is there not enough time? Would people judge you as selfish? Maybe you find it more fun drinking with […]

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The Reason Why You Are Overwhelmed

Scott Alpert — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:23:39 +0000

Working at the Mental Health Urgent Care Center for 11 years helped me put a lot of the psychology I studied into perspective. I might have studied something, but seeing it in real life was impactful. At this facility, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Disorders came to life, and the scary thing was—you never […]

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