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Enhanced Healing

Scott Alpert — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:31:38 +0000

I believe one of the benefits of running your own counseling center is the freedom to adjust your approach and emphasize what is the most effective way of obtaining the proper results you would like to see in the clients. One way I do this is by applying the approaches to myself. A recent health […]

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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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Holistic Treatment

Scott Alpert — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:33:06 +0000

If you’ve tried counseling before, gotten nowhere, and feel nothing out there works, let me introduce you to something different called Spiritual Psychology. I had gone through many different types of counseling, as well as seminars and lectures, to improve myself, but when I studied this approach in school, I was amazed with the results. […]

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Substance Treatment

Scott Alpert — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:41:07 +0000

I was asked to write a note to a lawyer ensuring I was providing substance treatment to their client, so I thought I’d use this as an opportunity to draft something that I could have on my website. My approach is different than 98% of the approaches out there because we focus on the core […]

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How to Take the Ultimate Care of Yourself

Scott Alpert — Tue, 13 May 2025 15:00:48 +0000

With the current atmosphere in this country, it is obvious that mental health is not prioritized. For years statistically, 20% of the people in this country suffer from mental health conditions that warrant serious treatment, however, in the last year, we’ve seen our numbers rise at an alarming rate. When we are experiencing more stress, […]

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Battling the Blahs

Scott Alpert — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:22:55 +0000

If you wake up in the morning, have no energy, no motivation, and no direction, these can be signs of depression. It is normal for people to have ups and downs but if these symptoms happen on a daily basis, and keep you from work, school, social interactions, or the things you normally do, then […]

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Self Care

Scott Alpert — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:11:01 +0000

Most people think of self-care as taking care of our physical body. The focus is mainly on getting enough exercise, eating the perfect diet, and going for a treatment at the spa. Well, yes, this is a portion of self-care but it is not the full picture. To ultimately take care of ourselves we have […]

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What is Spiritual Psychology?

Scott Alpert — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 06:10:42 +0000

What if all the problems you were facing were meant to be? What if there was a higher purpose to your life, instead of being here to eat, shit, and die. Because life didn’t make sense to me, and having no religious beliefs, I went on a quest in 1978 to find some meaning in […]

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Relationships 101

Scott Alpert — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:30:59 +0000

Psychology is basically the science of relationships. One of my licenses is for Marriage, Family Therapy. As you can see it deals with the relationships between two or more people, however, our relationships with others is a reflection of how we are with ourselves. Therefore, we need to improve our relationship with ourselves to see […]

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Relapse – A Slip in Reasoning

Scott Alpert — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:30:36 +0000

Since 1994 I entered this industry in hopes of making some sort of impact. My first internship was at Tarzana Treatment Center in southern California, a 12 Step facility that housed over 100 people. It taught a combination of the 12 Steps and what they termed “I.T.” or industrial therapy. Industrial therapy was basically having […]

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