Family Solutions & Recovery

11/18/2025

From Script to Session: Understanding Medications in the Therapy Room
3-Hour Ethics & Supervision CE | $75 | LMFT & LPC

If you’ve ever nodded along while a client listed their medications—quietly wondering what half of them do or how they might be shaping the work in session—you’re not alone. Therapists are often given a list of meds without the context we need to fully support the people we serve.

This 3-hour CEU training (approved for Ethics & Supervision credit) is designed to bridge that gap. We’ll break down commonly prescribed psychotropic medications in clear, accessible language, explore how they affect mood, behavior, and the therapy process, and learn how to identify when a “therapy issue” might actually be a medication side effect. You’ll walk away with practical tools, better questions to ask, and more confidence in collaborating with prescribers—while staying safely within your scope.

The workshop is led by:
Vaden Danielson, PA – bringing extensive neuropsych experience and a commitment to strengthening therapist–provider communication
Kensley Merry, MS, LPC-S – offering a clinician’s perspective on integrating medication awareness into ethical, effective therapy

Expect real case examples, practical conversation, and space to ask the medication questions you’ve been holding onto.

Open to LPCs and LMFTs working with any population—whether meds are new territory or you just want to feel more grounded when they come up in session.

CEUs: 3 Ethics & Supervision hours (approved for LPC & LMFT)
When: Friday, December 5th | 1:30–4:30 PM
Where: Payne Education Center
10404 Vineyard Blvd., Suite A, Oklahoma City, OK 73120
(Located in the same office park as Family Solutions Counseling. Vineyard Blvd runs south off Hefner Rd between Penn and May.)

Cost: $75
Register at: FamilySolutionsOK.com/Events

We hope you’ll join us for this much-needed, highly practical training!

3 Hour Ethics and Supervision CE for LMFT and LPC Costs: $75 If you’ve ever nodded along while a client listed their medications, secretly unsure what half of them were treating, or how they might be affecting your work together, you’re in good company. Therapists are often handed a list of pr

11/15/2025

We had a great time interviewing Kristen Callaway, LMFT, on hidden heartaches and unrecognized grief.

11/14/2025

In this episode of the Therapists’ Take Podcast, we explore the often-overlooked world of ambiguous and non-traditional grief. Unlike grief tied to a tangible death, these losses are harder to name, mourn, and validate. From infertility and disrupted family dreams, to the unraveling of intimate relationships, to recognizing the painful realities of family dysfunction, and even to the moral injuries carried by those in military and first responder roles—ambiguous grief leaves many feeling isolated and misunderstood. We’ll discuss how to recognize it, give language to the pain, and offer pathways toward healing when closure is elusive.
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About Our Guest: Kristen Callaway, LMFT is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist and the owner of Seeking Peace Counseling in Edmond, Oklahoma. She is an EMDRIA Certified Therapist, a Certified First Responder Counselor, and an Oklahoma Approved Licensure Supervisor. Kristen works with adults seeking healing from trauma, anxiety, and grief, with a special focus on military service members and first responders. She is also the host of the podcast Let’s Sit With This, where she shares grounding tools, encouragement, and honest conversations about the hard parts of life. Outside the therapy room, Kristen enjoys marathon training, baking, and spending time with her husband—a military veteran and law enforcement officer—and their two children.

Kristen's Links:
Her Website - https://www.seekingpeaceok.com/
Let's Sit with This Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-sit-with-this/id1818168015
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/seekingpeacecounseling

11/06/2025

💭 “ADHD doesn’t mean distraction. It means I’m in five places at once, but never invited to any of them.”
— Carl Patterson, LPC 🎙️
📖 Poetry in Layers, Season 1, Episode 11

This quote hits deep. So often, ADHD gets reduced to forgetfulness or lack of focus—but Carl captures the emotional reality behind it: the constant pull in multiple directions, the overstimulation, and the quiet isolation that can come with it.

🧠✨ Sometimes it’s not about attention deficit—it’s about attention overload.

10/10/2025

"Children practice endings before beginnings. Adults bend themselves to survive demands that erode vitality. In poems and whispered confessions, people name what statistics cannot: the load of trying to stay intact in a world intent on wearing us down."

Part 1: The System Around Us: Why External Pressures Keep Us from Happiness | By Carl Patterson, LPC

Read the entire article here!!

We come into the world wired for closeness, yet too often drift out of attunement. Our bodies store pain long after the mind insists it has passed. We repeat old patterns, mistaking subsistence for living. Focus narrows, days unravel, and what might have been wonder sinks into routine. Still, the pr

09/05/2025

New video dropped!!

In this episode of Therapists’ Take, Carrie and Josh unpack the rapidly evolving intersection of artificial intelligence and mental health counseling. They e...

09/03/2025

If you haven’t listened to Poetry in Layers, it needs to be on your playlist! Carl Patterson takes parts language to a whole new level!! You won’t be disappointed.

09/03/2025

🧠✨ New Episode Alert!

Episode 64 of the Therapists’ Take Podcast is here:
“On A.I.’s Threat to Therapists and the Evolving World of Mental Health Counseling.”

Artificial Intelligence is changing everything—from the way we live to how we connect. But what does this mean for the future of therapy and mental health counseling? 🤔

This is a conversation every therapist, client, and curious listener needs to hear.

🎧 Listen now on all major platforms!
🔗 Link in bio (https://shorturl.at/mOpw8)

08/25/2025

If you miss our latest podcast episode, here it is! Please like, share, and subscribe!

In this compelling episode of Therapists’ Take, we sit down with family law attorney and author Brian Putnam to unpack the complex and often misunderstood re...

08/25/2025

Had a great time recording this episode on Escaping Domestic Abuse with Family Law Attorney and published author, Brian Putnam.

08/20/2025

🎙️ Therapists’ Take Podcast is back.

We took a little break, but we’re excited to be back behind the mic with new episodes already out. Same vibe, fresh conversations.

Thanks for sticking with us — we’ve missed this.

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08/19/2025

🌙 New Episode Out Now 🎙️
“good morning, it’s midnight”

In this episode, Carl Patterson explores the quiet, often-overlooked emotional world children inhabit before, during, and after divorce. Through his original poem good morning, it’s midnight, Carl blends poetic language with clinical insight to give voice to what so many kids silently carry—fear, confusion, and the invisible work of protecting the people they love most.

As a Licensed Professional Counselor, poet, and spoken word artist, Carl unpacks how divorce shakes a child’s sense of stability, trust, and self-worth. He connects poetic devices like imagery, metaphor, and alliteration to the way children process big emotions—and shares how parents and clinicians can better hold space for them.

This isn’t just a performance. It’s a reflection, a resource, and a call to listen deeper. 💔➡️❤️
Because how we handle separation doesn’t just impact us—it echoes in the lives of those watching.

🎧 listen now wherever you get your podcasts