Outpatient Treatment Articles
How Couples Counseling Heals Communication During Addiction Recovery
For couples in treatment, healing an individual with a substance use disorder while restoring the relationship are two connected missions. The main skill to accomplish the second mission will be learning how to communicate in healthy ways. This is an area where...
Team Spotlight – Joellen Walter, LPC
Joellen’s professional experience included working in private practice with adults dealing with depression, anxiety, identity, and balance in their everyday living and conducting pre-surgical psychological evaluations. Joellen worked as a certified personal trainer for 15 years and has a deep understanding of the relationship between body, mind, and spirit. She’s trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and is a corrective exercise specialist, a performance enhancement specialist, and a nutrition coach.
How to Incorporate Exercise into Your Recovery
Joellen Walter, LPC How many times have we started going to the gym and quit within two weeks? Or we try to start/restart but can’t find the ambition to go? As people who’ve recovered from alcoholism or drug addiction, we think exercise has to be seven days a week,...
Managing Family Dynamics During Recovery
One of the most important elements of sustaining recovery is having family support during and after treatment. It’s why there’s so much emphasis on getting loved ones involved early in the process. But, casual conversation at home about treatment doesn’t necessarily...
ADHD in Adults
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Affects Not Only Children Adult ADHD has wide-ranging symptoms that can affect everything from an individual's relationships to their career. Adult ADHD is often unrecognized during childhood. As a young person, the...
What You Need to Know About Eating Disorders
The National Eating Disorders Association estimates about 20 million women and 10 million men in the United States have or had an eating disorder at some point in their lives. An eating disorder is a complex mental health issue requiring medical and psychological...
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental illness that affects how people feel and think about themselves and others, resulting in everyday functioning problems. It features difficulty controlling emotions and behavior, self-image issues, and a pattern of...
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that results in extreme mood swings, including emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression). When someone with bipolar disorder becomes depressed, they may feel sad or even hopeless and lose interest in most...
Therapy: Addiction Treatment’s Essential Ingredient
If you’ve been thinking that stopping drug use or trying to control the amount is enough to get sober, you may be unaware of the benefit of therapy as part of a treatment program. For some, a stigma around the use of the word “therapy” may be a barrier. But...
Benefits of Trauma Therapy
For anyone living with trauma, managing it for years may feel like performing a one-person show. You’re handling everything on your own, perhaps afraid to ask for help or unaware of the kind of help that’s available. Whether you know it or not, unresolved trauma has a...
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