Because life includes unavoidable pains, you and I often find ourselves “on the mend”. Regardless of where you are in the process of mending, you don’t have to do it alone. Please reach out to me. I want to help you feel safe and more confident in your daily living. On The Mend Counseling is where it can begin.
LISTEN to Mama’s Well Episode #69 “The Role of Connection in Addiction Prevention and Recovery” to hear Adam speak with Tara Hutton about how to connect and be human.
LISTEN to Adam guest speaking on: “Parents and Teens: Our Roles, Relationships, and Struggles” with Mosaics of Mercy host: Sherry Burkhard.
WATCH the episode with Stonebridge Church’s EQUIPP series where Adam Bertoch guest speaking about the roots of addiction.
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Representatives of social media victims.org have reached out to me with helpful resources for all you parents out there:
Professional Experience: Adam is dually licensed in the State of Texas as a Marriage and Family Therapist [LMFT] and Chemical Dependency Counselor [LCDC]. He began his career counseling adolescents in juvenile justice and corrections centers in both Idaho and Texas and later in a…
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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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 it?”….
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…
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…
A teen [or child] who views porn and makes internal assumptions about the purposes, motivations, bodily requirements, etiquette [and so forth] of sexual acts without the guidance, education, and wise filtering explanations of an adult [making the gross assumption that the adult has a…
REASON #1: It can be psychologically traumatizing and is often associated with symptoms listed under several diagnosable mental disorders. Please do not misunderstand this section. The equation I’m proposing is that these diagnoses can be symptoms of an underlying porn addiction, but that not…