2025 UPDATE: I Will be learning to help others using ACT.  Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, is a form of psychotherapy that combines aspects of mindfulness, behavioral therapy, and acceptance strategies. Its main goal is to help people live more meaningful lives by accepting difficult emotions and thoughts rather than trying to eliminate or avoid them.  Let me know if you are specifically interested in exploring your current challenges utilizing ACT. .......................................................................2017 NOTES: WE ALMOST ALWAYS HAVE CHOICES........."People are disturbed not by things, but by the views they take of them". (Epictetus) We Feel the Way We Think-----------------------ONLY ONE PERSON IN THIS WORLD CAN EVER MAKE YOU FEEL DEPRESSED, WORRIED, OR ANGRY-AND THAT PERSON IS YOU! THIS IDEA CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE. (David Burns MD)----------------------------------------------------------------------- ........................................................................................................ Theories emphasizing thoughts and actions (behaviors) have the most empirical validation - in short scientifically proven to be helpful. ........................................................................................................ Not an expert but I enjoy studying the evidenced based helping systems especially to include ACT.  I've studied REBT exstensively in the past.   Also love bx based Reality and SFBT. Enjoy Existential and Adlerian concepts. Big fan of Myers-Briggs, goal-setting principles, and especially the emerging field of Positive Psychology which is the scientific study of what makes one happy.  ....................................................................................................... Have lived in most regions of the USA.  I had the opp to live and travel in Europe for 3 years, witnessed some unpleasant things in Iraq. Too much exposure to death while working in cancer field for multiple years. I've visited several spanish speaking countries. .................................................................................................... I've always been able to make good connections with the down-and-out which I enjoy..., and that is what I do. I work with people who have been given every single psychiatric diagnosis known, but I'm not always a fan of such labeling. I volunteer as a youth VB coach and am regularly inspired by our young athletes. ...................................................................................................... All the background above has given me the opp to assist others with simple to complex problems, and I would enjoy exchanging ideas with you