All of our clinicians accept insurance! We’ve been working on getting everyone paneled for 1-2 companies each so that we can offer more services to more people in the Texas community. We now have people who can accept Blue Cross/Blue Shield, United Healthcare, Optum, Aetna, and Medicare. We also have […]
Online counseling has taken the therapy world by storm and we have seen a significant change in responses to the word “therapy” in the past few years. As someone who has been in the mental health field for nearly 20 years, I’ve seen people go from recoil and embarrassment when […]
I had an interesting discussion this week about finding meaning in one’s life. How we define meaning, different levels of meaning, and where to look for it. Humans have been searching for meaning for millennia and it’s something we all must grapple with throughout the course of our lives. Meaning […]
I love the phrase “all the feels”. It’s a great reminder that we can feel more than one thing at a time, even if we can’t tell what those feelings are in the moment. All too often we restrict ourselves from feeling so many of our natural human emotions. One […]
Today started off challenging. Nothing major happened that couldn’t be fixed by the end of the day. Everyone is safe and healthy in my immediate circle, even if we are all living in a constant state of fear, anxiety, and stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I’d been keeping my […]
“Come fall apart, come fall apart, come fall apart with me”. I was listening to a livestream the other day and a participant said they felt like falling apart. The presenter affirmed this need and said, “I hope you can find someone to fall apart with”. At that moment the […]
Back in January I submitted an article to The New Social Worker Magazine about self-care. It was published last week during the end of social work month. Click here to read the article in full. “Anyone who has been on Instagram lately knows that “Self-Care” is having a moment. Images […]
Six months ago, as I was starting to put in motion the things that needed to be done to move towards a full time private practice, I had the thought, “I hope something major doesn’t right when I leave everything stable about my life and take the leap into being […]
I had the opportunity this past summer to work on a project to teach community based organization managers and direct staff more about burnout prevention and recovery. I was so moved by the research and how engaged the participants were in our study, that I have decided to expand this […]
Happy Social Work Month! I follow some pretty hilarious social work accounts on Instagram (find me @theolivetreecounseling and @onecraftysocialworker). One of my favorites is a British social work site (@socialworktutor) who suggested that on World Social Work Day (which was yesterday, March 19, 2019) instead of doing one more training […]