Recently, there has been a wave of agencies moving towards home-based therapy, in which a therapist comes to your home to provide therapy to your family. Often this process is completed with a family – rather than an individual – though often a child is the target client. This tradition was once a common part of health care, though now Read more…
Have you ever hear of wilderness therapy? What about adventure therapy? Maybe you’ve heard of outdoor behavioral healthcare? Well, if you’ve heard them all or think I’m talking about giving therapy to the trees, there is actually a type of therapy that is experiential-based and often uses nature as a tool for change. This is a type of therapy with Read more…
“you were looking for a landslide. I was looking out for you. I was looking out for you.” -Brandi Carlile I get that question quite a bit. From family. From friends. From potential clients. The question, of course, refers to therapy. What is therapy all about? What do I do and say as a therapist? What do my clients say Read more…
“The old men come to see me. And they are wary. As men usually are. They will submit to my touch. And can’t imagine that the hand of another man could ever help much, or for long. I wait, imagining myself pliable. And when the sad burden of their life rises to the surface, that is what I Read more…
I just got back from leading one of my Military-Extension Adventure Camps at the Big South Fork River. We had a ton of fun whitewater canoeing, camping along the river coastline, and getting to know each other. Right before our take-out point yesterday, one of my colleagues read a short essay to the group as a way to bring our Read more…
