Mental Health – Basic Steps Mental Health

Legal Assessments

Scott Alpert — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:24:42 +0000

In 2017, I opened Basic Steps Mental Health, a clinic that assists people with mental health issues and issues with substance addiction. What we offer are individual sessions, group sessions, family sessions, an intensive outpatient program, and a partial hospitalization program—which is temporarily on hold. It is a big undertaking offering six hours of treatment […]

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How Did This Happen?

Scott Alpert — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:30:09 +0000

You’ve heard the statement, “What’s the worst thing that can happen?” Instead, why not focus on the best thing that can happen? You see, when we focus on the worst things, we create the worst things. The flip side can bring to you your dreams — and it sure did for me. At Basic Steps […]

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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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How to Obtain Mental Health

Scott Alpert — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:00:08 +0000

Obtaining mental health shouldn’t be a secret. Everyone should be entitled to experience peace, joy, laughter, hope, and love. Just because you may feel you had the perfect upbringing and the perfect life doesn’t guarantee happiness. Happiness takes work on a daily basis it is not simply given to you. Since the late 1800s the […]

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My Theory of Healing

Scott Alpert — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:28:38 +0000

How do people heal? That is the million-dollar question. It is a question that has spurred on industries from medicine to cosmetics, but caring for the physical body is only one piece of the puzzle, in all actuality, there are hundreds of pieces that need to be considered. To break things down into the basics, […]

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Homeless for the Holidays

Scott Alpert — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:00:48 +0000

I was setting up my office Christmas tree this past holiday and what flashed on me was how I was homeless this time of the year in 1981. Unfortunately, I was not alone. Each year more and more people are homeless, familyless, or friendless. That storybook holiday so often packaged each year on TV and […]

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A Typical Couple’s Intake

Scott Alpert — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:48:33 +0000

The following is a dramatization – no real persons were depicted or harmed “I don’t know why we are going here. We can handle things on our own,” says the husband as the wife drives them into the parking lot. “I’ve tried, you haven’t, and things are not changing. We need help and that’s why […]

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Special Memory #10

Scott Alpert — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:55:21 +0000

In 2012 as the world worried about extinction, I took a gamble. Since my ten-year relationship just ended, I wanted to get out of Los Angeles and explore my horizons. Ultimately I took up an offer to open up a Residential Treatment Facility 1,000 miles away. Moving from my family, friends, and steady job was […]

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Special Memory #9

Scott Alpert — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:08:50 +0000

For 11 years I worked at the first-ever, mental health urgent care center in the country. I was fresh out of graduate school with a crisp new, Doctoral degree, and trying to prove myself. This was the first facility of its kind, established to take pressure off of the local jails and emergency rooms and […]

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Special Memory #3

Scott Alpert — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:24:17 +0000

I never knew that being attacked came with mental health work. My job, on occasion, at the Mental Health Urgent Care Center, put me at risk. Our job was to keep the pressure off of the local jails and psychiatric hospitals by handling those people who were highly unstable. From week one, psychotic types were […]

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