Basic Steps Mental Health, in Everett, Washington is an outpatient Clinic that treats people sufferin
11/04/2025
At Basic Steps Mental Health, we believe true healing begins when you look deeper within yourself. Our approach using Spiritual Psychology helps you explore what’s beneath the surface. We don’t just focus on managing symptoms, but we guide you in discovering the root causes of emotional pain, anxiety, and stress. By understanding the deeper “why” behind your struggles, you can begin to transform your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors from the inside out.
Our goal is to help you reconnect with your authentic self and create lasting emotional and spiritual well-being!
Have you ever considered that what you see is make-believe? That people aren’t causing you upset, but you are? Spiritually speaking, everything outside of us is just an illusion. “But they made me feel bad.” Here is the Ego in motion. In graduate school, they must have written on the whiteboard hundreds of times, “I am upset because…”
At Basic Steps Mental Health, we believe true healing goes beyond talk therapy. Our Spiritual Psychology approach integrates evidence-based mental health care with mindfulness, compassion, and personal growth, helping you reconnect with your inner strength and sense of purpose.
Whether you’re navigating anxiety, depression, or life transitions, our goal is to guide you toward balance, clarity, and self-acceptance... One step at a time!
When a person walks into a room, their energy impacts it. Some emit a creepy vibe that puts you on guard, while others may fill you with a sense of joy. What impact do you have on a room?
As an advocate of Spiritual Psychology, I often feel like a lone wolf. While CBT and DBT get most of the attention, I’ve seen them fall short, leaving psychotherapy with a bad reputation. If old approaches aren’t working, it may be time to try something new, Spiritual Psychology, which delivers proven results without being harmful (though I admit, it can be pleasantly addictive).
When somebody remarked in group that our program is not the 12 Steps, a fire was ignited. And no, it is not. When I was admitted into graduate school, I had been working at a 12-Step facility for years and quickly learned that this was the real thing.
Our mission at Basic Steps Mental Health is to support, educate, and provide ongoing services to help empower people struggling with mental health and substance addiction problems. Our practice teaches the practical application of Spiritual Psychology to treat the mind | body | emotions | and spirit.
So when we receive testimonials like the one below, we know we're on the right path 💜!
When I first entered the field, I had the privilege of learning from my mentor, Albert Saparoff, creator of the Get High on Life program. Albert dedicated his life to helping others build self-esteem and explore alternative methods of healing. I was fortunate to have him join my treatment groups for over a year, where he shared his unique training in non-touch healing and “channeling the healing energy of the universe.” His impact was unforgettable, and one particular healing experience left us all amazed.
The picture a client painted of their current situation really impacted me. They felt like they didn’t match up to others, that people were judging them harshly, that they couldn’t meet their own expectations, that they were stuck in a nowhere job, and why did they always feel a sense of doom? When you are in such a rut as this, how can you get out of it?
It was inevitable that I’d write about the legal system. Doing Mental Health and Substance Use Evaluations for court proceedings pits one genre against another. The courts try to decide what is right or wrong, but according to Spiritual Psychology, there is no right or wrong, only learning. How do I survive my interactions with the legal system when I tend to lean toward the learning side?
Today’s topic is on using negative judgments towards other people and oneself to heal. Each person has 20,000 to 80,000 thoughts a day. How many of these thoughts are negative? We judge all the time! And if we are able to be aware of our negative judgments, we can start the healing process.
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Basic Steps Mental Health combines Clinical Psychology with Spirituality providing you with the best odds for resolving substance abuse and mental health problems. Our main goal at Basic Steps Mental Health SPC is to provide the highest quality Outpatient treatment in the industry through the use of Evidence-Based Psychological Approaches that address the underlying core issues that bring you into treatment.
We provide an array of services for individuals who are ready to address the problems in their lives that they may have been struggling with for years. If you have attempted treatment numerous times and left with an empty feeling inside, Basic Steps Mental Health provides a comprehensive program that doesn’t avoid the issues but goes through them.
We develop individual treatment plans. In our Intensive Outpatient program, we provide a minimum of two individual sessions per week, daily workshops that teach people various counseling skills, and by treatment, end participants are able to master our “Self-Counseling Approach” where they literally counsel themselves on paper! This is more than a Dual Diagnosis Clinic - in treating both Addiction and Mood problems we also address your life direction.
We stand by our commitment to free Aftercare to people who have completed our Intensive Outpatient Program. Our program is an Alternative to the 12 Steps. For people who want to be different and go to a Psychological program, Dr. Scott Alpert, our Clinical Director, since 1994 has treated over 7,000 people using Spiritual Psychology, an approach that addresses problems on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. Our goal is for our clients to create a better relationship with themselves, receive ongoing support, and master real tools that can be used for a lifetime. This is treated the way you always wanted it to be without any shame, only compassion because we believe “When Love is Applied to Hurt we Heal.”
