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Meaningful Meantime by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health The phrase "meantime" is simply defined as the interval between one occurrence and another. As simple as this is, I think this one word has vital significance to th ... Read on »

Smart vs. Wise by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health This is another in my ever-increasing list of "therapeutic distinctions", pairs of words that at first glace may seem similar but which upon closer investigation rev ... Read on »

Heal vs. Fix by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health This is another in a long line of posts I've published about what I call "therapeutic distinctions", pairs of related concepts that are often used interchangeably bu ... Read on »

Two Types Of Power by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Many years ago I read a little book called " The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How To Recognize It And How To Respond", by Patricia Evans. I still recommend this b ... Read on »

Fine by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Sometimes when I ask clients how they're feeling I'll get this answer: "Fine". I usually try to point out that this doesn't tell me much. Even a relatively short l ... Read on »

Lean Into The Opposite by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health In my counseling practice I've seen all degrees of personalities, from the most rigid to the most disorganized, the serious to the silly, the extremely anxious and the extreme ... Read on »

Go Slower To Get There Faster by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health The phrase "go slower to get there faster" is an important component of personal growth. We all generally want to achieve our goals quickly, right? Magazine covers ... Read on »

Why "Better" is Better Than "Best" by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health I recently introduced the concept that " progress works backwards", meaning that growth toward a desired goal generally happens in incrementally improving stages. I ... Read on »

Quantity vs. Quality by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health I have counseled many financially successful individuals who find their personal and family lives in turmoil. Such men and women are often emotionally unprepared for such a s ... Read on »

Sex Addictoon: Three Drugs In One by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health I do a lot of work helping both individuals and couples heal from the damage of compulsive sexual behavior, commonly known as sex addiction. Some people still laugh and say &q ... Read on »

Progress Works Backwards by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health To resolve a problem obviously means that a desired outcome has been reached, while progress means that some type of incremental improvement has been made. Seems simple, righ ... Read on »

Emotional Color Wheel by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health We all at times feel sad, anxious, or angry. Although these are normal human emotions, they can cause difficulties for people who have a hard time regulating or managing them ... Read on »

Give Up To Take Up by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Have you ever held so many items in your hands that you couldn't carry any more until you put some down? When your brain is full of long-held ideas about yourself and the wor ... Read on »

What If? So What? by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health A hallmark of anxiety is some form of the question "What if.....?" Sometimes these two simple words are helpful when we use them to plan for possible events, situat ... Read on »

When the Unexpected Happens To The Therapist by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health In this post I have the opportunity to practice what I preach. My entire professional website has crashed and may very well be lost to any possibility of recovery. Years of ... Read on »

Consequences by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Painful as they can often are, thank goodness for consequences! Every action (and even not taking an action) has an effect. This seems pretty straight-forward, right? Yet a ... Read on »

The Best Time To Plant An Oak Tree by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health I love this old saying: "The best time to plant an oak tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today." Who among us doesn't have at least some feeling of regr ... Read on »

The Difference That Makes A Difference by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health "If you want something different, you have to do something different." This seems like a straight-forward aphorism, doesn't it? But there's an important corollary ... Read on »

The Hardest Year In A Marriage by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health I recently saw a humorous refrigerator magnet with a sentence that I thought was brilliantly true: "The most difficult year of marriage is THIS one." Long-term relat ... Read on »

In Honor of Richard Morgan by Bill H. Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health The Atlanta recovery community lost a great friend upon the sudden death on February 10th of Richard Morgan. Richard was a well-respected therapist in private practice and a ... Read on »

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