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Adam Bertoch, MS, LCDC, LMFT
Professional Experience Adam is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. He received these licenses after obtaining his Masters of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. He obtained his Bachelors of Science…
Services and Fees
While I certainly welcome individual adults, couples, and families, I have found that my niche is working with adolescents and emerging adults. My clinical focus and personal experience draws me to providing treatment of the effects of trauma; namely, depression, anxiety, and addiction.
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Scheduling
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Liv-a-cide: Discovering Preventative Measures for Suicide
Let me start with an explanation of the experience I had writing the information below. When I set out to understand, solve, or explain something better, I usually ask myself three questions about the problem – “What is it?”, “How is it?”, “Why is…
Trauma: The Signs and Symptoms
PURPOSE OF THIS POST: I wanted to write this post to help aid parents in seeing some of the signs/symptoms of trauma in their children. Trauma symptoms can be sneaky and hide very well behind what most think are normal adolescent behaviors. The phrase…
Pathology from “Us”
Sometimes a dichotomy is a good way to understand where you stand on an issue. Here’s one: Mental disorders are either tied up in the individual OR it is tied up in a relationship. What’s your answer? And How would your answer to this…
Hello I’m Addiction
Hi I’m secrecy. I hide because I know I’m wrong. I don’t tell anyone what you see or do because I know it’s wrong and I know it would hurt others feelings if I told them what I was doing with my free time….
Adolescence is Explore-essence
Having the emotions of an adult without the rationality of one… Does this sound like a problem? It tends to be for parents of teenagers. Here’s some important questions for you to consider before moving on with therapy for your teen: What is your…
The Book that Changed the Way I think about Depression
Aside from many religious texts, a book that altered the way I think about depression is by Viktor Frankl titled, “Man’s Search for Meaning”. I was working graveyards at a Psych Hospital in Utah several years ago and decided that in order to keep…
TWO WOLVES…
A while back an old man was talking to me about this story that he heard once about two wolves. It turns out it likely comes from a Cherokee proverb of sorts. I wanted to share it with you below since I recently stumbled…
Effects of Anger on Families
Family ties are one of the strongest contributors to individual character development. Many of us spend years trying to understand, erase, or copy the influence of our family unit. When anger is part of a family’s tradition, it spreads itself much like a virus…
