Will my insurance plan pay for treatment?A guide to understanding how to use your benefits for the best mental health and chemical dependency treatment available to you. The reason I am writing this article is due to the general misunderstanding of insurance benefits, and what they cover with the clients and families I work with [...]
By: Donna Wallace LPC, LADC, ADCR-MN As there are many ways to define addiction, recovery may look different depending on whom you’re asking. I think of addiction as a process. Substance use or addictive behaviors meet a need, at first. We want to have fun, or de-stress, or fit in, or rebel. But when it becomes [...]
By K. Murray Decio, M.S.O.M, L.Ac What is Cupping? Cupping has gained a lot of mainstream attention this week; Olympic athletes such as Michael Phelps have been seen with dark circular bruises on his back and shoulders. This isn’t the first time cupping has been in the lime light. We have seen other celebrities and [...]
Authored by Donna Wallace MA, BCC, LADC A partner's drug and alcohol use can cause friction in the relationship, even lead to a break-up. We've all heard the horror stories, so it might be easy to overreact if we think something is going on. On the other hand, our desire for everything to be all [...]