A Pastor’s Dilemma: Responsibilities, Limitations and Questions to Ask About Counseling

[image by dcfdelacruz] I made a comment on Twitter the other night that went something like this: Feel blog post coming on about how dangerous it is when pastors ignore serious mental health issues & blame it on spiritual problems And from that I received a lot of interesting feedback–mostly people saying, yes, I agree. Blog about [...]

Facebook Isn’t the Problem…But Maybe Your Marriage Is

[image (47/365) :: Saga] Triangling Facebook Into the Marital Unit Often I find myself working with a kid in therapy whose parents have brought him/her in because of the problems they are creating in the family. In therapy/counseling terms that kid has become the identified patient. In short, the identified patient is: The family member in [...]

Revisiting Facebook’s Effect on Marriage and Relationships

[image by soundlessfall] Earlier this summer I was contacted by Irving Bible Church in Las Colinas, TX to write an article on technology for their monthly magazine. After talking with the editor at length we eventually agreed upon a topic that we thought would be of importance to the readers — We came up with [...]

On the Similarities Between Being a Writer and Being a Therapist

Though Anne Lamott is speaking on writing–I think it can also be used as one of the best explanations for what a therapist does. I inserted the word therapist for writer and it best explains some of what goes on in therapy–things that are hard to put into words. [image by Hamed Saber] “We write to [...]

Providing Understanding for Parent’s Experiences Around Their Kids and Technology

[image by Jeremy] More and more recently I have been afforded some great opportunities to work with parents around the issue of their kids and technology. There have been some great conversations taking place in the context of therapy, church ministry and some conferences and workshops I have been fortunate enough to play a role [...]