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Because life includes unavoidable pain, you and I are always “on the mend”. Instead of letting pain rob you of a life of peace, conviction, connection and meaning, learn how to let it teach you of your vitality and drive to obtain a life worth living. 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.
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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…
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My clinical focus is in trauma recovery and the commonly co-occurring anxiety, depression, and addiction within families, adults, and adolescents.
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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 it?”….
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…
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 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…
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