The Broken Brain

Build upon Strengths to improve your life 29.07.2015 1:00:56 ↓

We meet as a Broken Brain Gang to discuss Strengths Based therapy, where the clinician helps the individual to use their strengths to compensate for weaker areas, presenting problems, and mental illness. 

Resistance to Healing or Treatment 17.07.2015 53:19 ↓

A CEU training for the Aspire Group, by your very own host and psychotherapist Dwight Hurst! I discuss possible causes and context for resistance to treatment, how clinicians can help or hurt with that process, and ways for patients and therapists to overcome these obstacles. 

Technology in Counseling by Karson Kinikini 14.05.2015 56:55 ↓

An Aspire CEU Training on the use of technology in counseling. Presented by Karson Kinikini, Licensed Professional Counselor. Karson is one of the organizers of Aspire, a network of professional counselors & therapists, the owner of K2 Counseling, and a really nice guy. Karson and I have worked together since 2003 (ish).

Protect yourself from Revenge Porn 24.02.2015 16:10 ↓

Revenge Porn is a real thing, it is the use of sensitive materials to blackmail, bully, humiliate, or otherwise continue a pattern of abuse. Arianna Jeret of YourTango and The Good Men Project has written a wonderful and personal article about her method of defense. She goes beyond th eobvious "just don't take those types of picturtes," to give us a great real-world approach to self defense agains...

Ask a Therapist 1 12.02.2015 40:49 ↓

Our new segment: Ask a Therapist. Get a therapist opinion. We discuss psychotropic medication, depression reactions, and the dynamic of therapy. 

Intake Reasons from the 1800s 07.01.2015 56:48 ↓

Lee, Raney Mills and Dwight riff about a list of admission reasons fro inpatient psychiatric (read: ASYLUM) style treatment from the 1860s, and revel in the horribleness of it all.