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Are People Ever Fully Fixed?

Scott Alpert — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:00:42 +0000

Living in a quick-fix society, people come to our facility looking for that one fix-it-all that will change their lives forever. Well, occasionally that happens, but it is rare. Because we are so complex, the pill, the prayer, or the special activity won’t fix the matter, psychotherapy can but only with dedication. Are people ever […]

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The Benefits of Group Therapy

Scott Alpert — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:00:35 +0000

I read an article years ago about the top 50 therapy approaches for treatment and could kick myself for not saving it. What I recall was group therapy was in the top five, family therapy in the top ten, number 7 was aversion therapy – like Schick Shadel used to offer before their recent close, […]

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It Is Time

Scott Alpert — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 17:00:57 +0000

What I have been planning for the last three months is almost upon me. My trip to Europe. I may have butterflies in my stomach now, but I will reframe that as being excited. What faces me is my Ideal Vacation Scene of traveling across the pond with my inner child in hand. Hey, taking […]

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New Year’s Top 10 Mental Health Tips

Scott Alpert — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 04:13:42 +0000

Another new year, another new start – well that’s if we want it. Each morning we open our eyes afresh and we are the ones that hold onto the mindsets from the day before. Are they good or bad? Only you can tell. If the bad outweighs the good, here are the top ways you […]

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Woundology – Bonding in Our Wounds

Scott Alpert — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 19:35:19 +0000

The theme of this last week has been on people imagining the worst-case scenarios. You know, “What is the worst thing that can happen?” It is almost as if we were weaned on this. How often have you focused on the worst thing? The surprising thing is that when we fantasize about something, reality and […]

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Getting Socially Healthy

Scott Alpert — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 01:37:23 +0000

In Graduate School we were taught to take care of our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs simultaneously in order for the change to stick. If we only focused on improving ourselves physically, for example, weight loss, then it will also impact the underlying mental and emotional levels causing us to be unstable and usually, […]

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Getting Out of the Shadows

Scott Alpert — Tue, 04 May 2021 04:20:33 +0000

When I write mental health articles, I try to stay as neutral as possible. For therapists, we treat people that often have opposing viewpoints to our own, and for me personally, I learn so much from the other person’s point of view, which makes each day rich and an opportunity to search my own self […]

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Coping with COVID-19

Scott Alpert — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 20:05:21 +0000

Did you ever believe this pandemic would go on so long? Isn’t it surreal to go shopping and seeing everyone masked up? I heard that in China they have monitors on people and anybody who has a temperature is whisked away to the hospital for a checkup. Their numbers are going down, ours aren’t. A […]

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