psychotherapy – Page 6 – Keith Wilson

The Shrink’s Links: Stop It

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Everything you need to know about confidentiality

Counseling will work to the degree that you are confident my office is a safe place to bring up sensitive matters, but you will have to take some risks. The things we talk about are confidential. I will not repeat the things we discuss in a way that can be traced back and identified withContinue reading “Everything you need to know about confidentiality”

Announcement: Video Counseling

After more than a year, I have resumed the practice of offering video counseling to folks who, for one reason or another, cannot come to see me at my office. I used to do this quite a bit, back when I had just started my practice and was building up my caseload. Then two thingsContinue reading “Announcement: Video Counseling”

The Shrink’s Links: DBT Skills

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, also known as DB, is all the rage these days. This pfp has many essential skills. Click here to go to the page

The Shrink’s Links: Elizabeth Smart

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you want to know the difference between a victim and a survivor, listen to Elizabeth Smart. Click here to go to the link

The Shrink’s Links: Chronicle Me

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you have something you just need to get off your chest. This is the place to do it and no one, they assure us, will ever know. Click here to go to the page

The Shrink’s Links: Mutual Help

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you’ve seen Ken Burns’ newest documentary, The Roosevelts, you know about the part where FDR was stricken with polio. He woke up one morning, unable to move his legs. What followed was a terrifying and painful ordeal. It took doctors weeks to diagnose the problemContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Mutual Help”

The Shrink’s Links: Mad in America

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Not everyone connected with the treatment of and recovery from mental illness goes along with the medical view that it is a chemical problem that has a chemical solution. Anyone interested in rethinking psychiatric care would want to read Mad in America. Click here to goContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Mad in America”

The Shrink’s Links: Old Man Gloom

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you were amused by the post I wrote on Keith’s Crock of Shit, then wait till you get a load of what they do in Santa Fe. Every year, the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe, New Mexico constructs a huge effigy of Zozobra (the SpanishContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Old Man Gloom”

The Shrink’s Links: A Consequential, Niggling Detail

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Today I’m going to write about something that should be irrelevant and of no concern to you, but may affect you, nonetheless: the licensing of people who perform psychotherapy. Licenses exist so the consumer can know who to trust and who has the necessary training andContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: A Consequential, Niggling Detail”