Spiritual Psychology – Basic Steps Mental Health

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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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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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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How to Use the Universal Power

Scott Alpert — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:22:15 +0000

From time to time, I ask myself why I am withholding a lot of valuable information that was taught at the University of Santa Monica. Many of these techniques are ones I use daily in my practice and have helped thousands of people. Being in an almost trance-like state while counseling others has helped me […]

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The Energetic to Psychology

Scott Alpert — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:50:48 +0000

One cannot deny that each cell in our body is comprised of an electric charge. If we were to view ourselves as energetic beings, then we have the capacity to choose whether to emit positive or negative energy. When a person walks into a room, their energy impacts it. Some emit a creepy vibe that […]

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The Number One Healing Tool

Scott Alpert — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:02:11 +0000

As an advocate of Spiritual Psychology, sometimes I feel like a lone wolf in the wilderness. In a world where CBT and DBT get much of the attention, I’ve seen each approach not get the results that are desired, giving psychotherapy a bad rap. If you are in acute distress, behaving a certain way, thinking […]

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12 Steps vs Spiritual Psychology

Scott Alpert — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:23:55 +0000

When somebody remarked in group that our program is not the 12 Steps, a fire was ignited. And no, it is not. When I was admitted into graduate school, I had been working at a 12-Step facility for years and quickly learned that this was the real thing. This is not to say that the […]

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Assessments for the Courts – My Battle

Scott Alpert — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:00:08 +0000

It was inevitable that I’d write about the legal system. Doing Mental Health and Substance Use Evaluations for court proceedings pits one genre against another. The courts try to decide what is right or wrong, but according to Spiritual Psychology, there is no right or wrong—only learning. How do I survive my interactions with the […]

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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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Feelings of Frustration

Scott Alpert — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:00:45 +0000

I am beyond frustrated. I just had my computer wipe out the article I was preparing, and “frustrated” doesn’t begin to describe the feelings shooting through me. It was going to be the greatest paper ever created, but no—my computer had another agenda of its own. So now I am faced with a decision: either […]

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