Professional Counselor Associate: My Thoughts on Where We Are
Professional Counselor Associate: Thoughts on Where We are as the Human Collective We are being given an opportunity as a collective and as individuals to make a tremendous shift in our lives, in how we show up in the world, and in how we coexist together on beautiful planet earth. We are in the middle […]
Online Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Searching for Online Mental Health Counseling in Washington State, Oregon, or British Columbia? https://ryankopyarholistichealing.com/free-consultation/ The process of starting and initial stages or working with a therapist or a counselor can seem, confusing overwhelming and quite honestly, unlike anything that we’ve ever done before. In this video, which is part one of a two-part series, I […]
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
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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 […]