Art and Soul Art Therapy and Innovative Counseling

02/13/2026

02/08/2026

I can relate to this so very much! People with ADHD often have to seek out “dopamine nodes” in their lives. I describe this to my clients in terms of Minecraft mining nodes.

You know those nodes in Minecraft are going run out. Often times they respawn and you can go back to mining for the same resource (ie dopamine in the real world). So it’s very good to identify MANY nodes in your world. When one runs out, you can mine another node.

People who have only one or two nodes are likely to need higher amounts of dopamine from those limited nodes, become less likely to accept any substitutes for their node of choice, and really struggle if they can’t access their node of choice. And THAT IS WHERE THE DANGER IS. That is the path to addiction, and a great deal of pain.

What dopamine nodes do you utilize in your own life?

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02/08/2026

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02/04/2026

Author extraordinaire Brandon Sanderson recently gave a great argument against AI art. If we rely on AI rather than pursue the struggle of creation as humans, we miss out on the real masterpiece being crafted: ourselves.

02/04/2026

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01/28/2026

I have been sharing this with all my clients and colleagues. It is SO TRUE!

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01/22/2026

Just a heads up if you have ConnectiCare. ConnectiCare was bought by Molina Healthcare, and Molina has not done a good job about updating clients that they have entirely new member IDs. They have not sent cards to their members, and they have not informed them that they have to create new logins on the website to pay their bills. (We only found all of this out when we went to log in to pay our own bill!) If you have ConnectiCare, make sure to CALL them so they can get you this vital information!

01/16/2026

It's Time To Get Trained to Treat Trauma Effectively!

Are You Trained to Effectively Treat Trauma? Trauma-based cases are coming into your office. Make this the year that you are READY by getting trained in BSOTR! Greg, Yudit and myself (Briana) continue to train new students in Brief Solution-Oriented Trauma Resolution (BSOTR) and bring effective trau...

01/14/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK14lQlUGSU This is the place where so many of our adult female clients are existing.

For years, many women have quietly carried the invisible load — the planning, the remembering, the organizing, the emotional caretaking — often without langu...

01/05/2026

After a hectic fall and some intense cases that yielded our clinicians a lot of surplus stress, we decided to all show support and appreciation for each other by creating Artist Trading Cards. Everyone in our office made ten little works of art. Then everyone got
a bundle back with a work of art from each of their coworkers. We wanted to share what we created in a series of posts!

VALERIE’S CARDS:

01/05/2026

After a hectic fall and some intense cases that yielded our clinicians a lot of surplus stress, we decided to all show support and appreciation for each other by creating Artist Trading Cards. Everyone in our office made ten little works of art. Then everyone got
a bundle back with a work of art from each of their coworkers. We wanted to share what we created in a series of posts!

BECCA’S CARDS (she made cards that we can paint ourselves with little drops of watercolor paint included!):