Getting Help from an Online Mental Health Counselor

Online Clinical Mental Health Counseling with Ryan Joseph Kopyar Here’s a brief overview of what Online Clinical Mental Health Counseling with Ryan Joseph Kopyar is like: As a clinical mental health counselor, I am often asked for tips, tricks, strategies on how to help the individual sitting across from me heal. I think that all […]
Words from an Online Clinical Mental Health Counselor
Words from an Online Clinical Mental Health Counselor As an online clinical mental health counselor, I am often asked by the individuals that I work with how they can start to make a change in their life. I think that the key to making a change is believing that change is possible and then holding […]
New Clinical Mental Health Crisis Hotline: 988

988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Launches
Marks Washington’s first phase of building understanding, hope and a path forward for those in need
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Brain Disease Model: Of the Disease Models

Brain Disease Model: Of the Disease ModelsAs Capuzzi and Stauffer (2013) denote, the general premise of the Disease Model of addiction has been around for several centuries. However, E.M. Jellinek is primarily given credit for creating the underpinnings of first clinically accepted version of the Disease Model (Capuzzi & Stauffer, 2013). One unique aspect to […]
Washington State: Family Theory for Addictions Counseling

Family Disease Model: Of the Family ModelsThe Family Disease Model is a subset from the Family Models explanation of addiction (Capuzzi & Stauffer, 2013). In the Family Disease Model, the focus is taken off of the specific individual with addiction, and instead focused on the entire family unit (Capuzzi & Stauffer, 2013). In this model, […]
WA State CBT for Addictions Counseling: Substance Abuse

Theoretical Models and Approaches for Substance Abuse Diagnosis and TreatmentSubstance abuse counseling requires a multimodal and multicausal lens through which clinicians and counselors design and implement treatment plans specific to their unique clients. To that point, there is no one size fits all theoretical model that can explain the etiology behind why individuals develop substance […]
Humanistic psychotherapy and Humanistic Therapy

Overview of Satir’s Human Validation Process ModelVirginia Satir is a renowned American psychotherapist and author. Satir was born on June 26th, 1916 in a small Wisconsin town called Neillsville. Satir was the first of five children, was academically gifted cognitively, and had an incredible desire to gain knowledge (Virginia Satir Biography, 2015). Satir excelled through […]
Telehealth Counseling or Virtual Counselling During Covid-19

Technology and Counseling: Now to 2030! The world has rapidly moved towards the digital delivery of mental health services as our ‘new normal.’ While this shift has been ongoing for several years, the COVID-19 pandemic has been the largest impetus for this shift. This pandemic has presented health care professionals with copious levels of challenges. While […]
5 Simple Steps to Handling Your Emotions: Virtual Counselling Tip

5 Simple Steps to Handling Your Emotions when Faced with a Difficult SituationSummary:How many times have you lost control of yourself when you’re angry? Did you do or say something which you regretted afterwards? Read Below on Steps to make a change in this regard.How many times have you lost control of yourself when you’re […]