Online Self-Improvement Workshop
Basic Steps Mental Health is conducting another Zoom Meeting to help people get through the difficulties in their life through self-help tools. A little knowledge can go a long way, a lot of knowledge can help you thrive. A thank you to all that attended our last Zoom meeting. It was our best ever and our hope is to even surpass that one. Our program teaches people the Spiritual Psychology...Learn More
Surviving The Pandemic Workshop
Surviving the Pandemic is a free 1 ½ hour Zoom meeting for people to discuss the difficulties they have been experiencing during this tumultuous time, and learn Psychological tools to not only cope, but heal and grow. Without the normal distractions of travel, restaurants, the gym, shopping, music, bars, coffee shops, etc. etc., we are suddenly stuck with ourselves and dealing with our...Learn More
Mental Health Minute – Part 1
Listen to Dr. Scott Alpert’s Mental Health Minute HERE: Compassionate Care is Always Available There are many more tools and strategies you can use in your pursuit of happiness. Here is where we come in. Contact us at Basic Steps Mental Health and let us support and educate you on this journey back to your loving heart center. Imagine living a heart-centered life, regardless of what is...Learn More
Mental Health Spring Cleaning
Have you ever had thoughts that go around and around in your head? If so, get ready to learn some innovative tools to rid yourself of them. Repetitive thoughts are basically unprocessed issues that the mind wants to resolve. To resolve them, there are a few strategies that may be of great help. There is nothing worse than trying to go to sleep and being tortured by what you did, what you...Learn More
Happiness During the Pandemic
As a therapist, I am always asking people who are going through difficult times to find happiness within. To discover what makes them happy, and then do that. For individuals who had a difficult childhood, I ask them what made them happy when they were a child and do that, through the use of the opposite hand or opposite foot play. The model that I use is: “When love is applied to hurt, we...Learn More
The Benefits of COVID-19
An article about the benefits of COVID? How could something that causes people to die, lose their job, their home, their freedom, and even their mobility be a good thing? When given a spiritual point of view, you may have a different vantage point. Spirituality, according to Alcoholics Anonymous is the belief in something greater than us restoring us to sanity. No, this isn’t an article on AA,...Learn More
Take the Mental Health Test
Take the next few minutes to take the following mental health test. It will let you know how you are currently doing in your life. Please answer as honestly as you can. Now is not the time to lie to yourself. Poor Below Average Average Above Average Excellent Physical Health Energy Level Level of Daily Exercise Amount of Sleep Diet Positive...Learn More
These are Crazy Times
I need to make a confession. This is an exciting time to be a therapist. I used to work at the first Mental Health Urgent Care center in the country and I am reminded of all the mayhem that went on there, with how busy our business has become. Yes, we are going through a time of epic change globally and how are you surviving? It is easy to get caught up in making ourselves right and others...Learn More
Spirituality in the Workplace – Part 3
This article will be our final installment on the workplace series. With the recent events regarding civil unrest, it is now more important than ever to learn how to get along with people of all different colors and backgrounds and settle differences. Understand that when we interact with another person, we bring with us all of our unresolved issues and they do as well which can sometimes lead...Learn More