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Adam Bertoch, MS, LCDC, LMFT
Adam is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor and 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 in Psychology with a…
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…
How Porn Affects Teens
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…
5 Reasons to Talk to Your Teen About Porn
REASON #1: It is psychologically traumatizing and thus is associated with several forms of diagnosed mental disorders. When a teen stops viewing porn and is in Counseling the following symptoms could potentially be alleviated. Please do not misunderstand this section. The equation I’m proposing…
“Rough Drafts”
I was thinking the other day about how advice on writer’s block can be helpful to us who live the rough draft rather than write about it — I mean those of us who live life. Bravely giving people all that we have, a…
