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Understanding and Preventing Suicide: Free Webinar

Join Dr. Lisa Firestone September 10th for a free Webinar on ‘Understanding and Preventing Suicide’ Sign Up Here! In this Webinar, Dr. Firestone will educate the public about the warning signs and risk factors for suicide as well as the helper tasks that can save a life.

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CE Webinar: Secure and Insecure Love: An Attachment Perspective

Presenter: Dr. Phillip Shaver 3 CE Credits – $35 90 Minutes Earn 3 CE’s by watching the Webinar and reading an article by Dr. Shaver. Both clinicians and researchers have noted the importance of close interpersonal relationships for the development of personality, character, and overall well-being. Attachment theory was originally created by a psychoanalytically oriented… Read more »

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The Importance of Attachment

A Presentation with Dr. Lisa Firestone Learn more about attachment style

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Sea Lion Savior

Lately, there seems to be quite a bit of debate as to whether or not a sea lion saved my life after I jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge in an attempt to end my life. To be clear, there are a large number of reporters and speculators who have claimed it was really a seal…… Read more »

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Just Live: How Choices Lead to Living Well

By searching deep inside ourselves we can reveal that our lives are filled with so many tiny seemingly insignificant little choices. Choices that can change the course of our destiny. For example, say you are walking down a particular street or road and, instead of moving straight in that same direction, you make the next… Read more »

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It isn’t whether you win or lose, it is how you play the game, or is it? The law of unintended consequences

It seems today as if outcome or product is the priority.  From grades and test scores, following rules, being “good”, winning a soccer game to getting into the best college or job, the focus is on the end product.  While this seems to be a responsible pursuit for conscientious parents, this path may in fact… Read more »

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After the Honeymoon

Listen up. Marriage is hard work. As trumpeted in I Do. I Did. Now What? Life After the Wedding Dress, by Jenny Lee, “There are always plenty of friends to argue the finer points of engagement rings, prenuptial diets, French bustles, and tiara vs. headpiece.” But, the author warns, “Once the band stops playing and… Read more »

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Beyond the Label of “Mental Illness:” The Polarized Mind

There was another mass shooting recently. This one was at a school in Newtown, Connecticut.  Just a week earlier there had been a similar mass shooting at a political rally in Canada, and another, just six weeks earlier at a movie theater in Colorado.  I heard a reporter on the radio say that the shooter… Read more »

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CE Webinar: The Self Under Siege

Presenter: Dr. Lisa Firestone 3 CE Credits – $35 90 Minutes Earn 3 CE’s by watching the Webinar and reading an article by Dr. Firestone. Differentiation refers to the struggle that all people face in striving to develop a sense of themselves as autonomous individuals. When working with clients to fully develop themselves, a fundamental… Read more »

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