Family System Roles   By: Ryan O'Millian   Our families-of-origin are the first relationships we have with others. This is where we learn the blueprints of how to interact with everyone else in the world. In order to understand our current relational patterns, it can be helpful to think about the roles that we learned in our early relationships.               Enabler/Rescuer: Takes care of other peoples’ needs before Read More

Over the past year, Rangeview has begun offering art therapy to both their groups and individual clients, but why choose art therapy? Art therapy is not just arts and crafts during the therapy session, nor is it a practice reserved only for children. Art therapy can be used with any population including teens, adults, families, couples, and groups dealing with various clinical challenges. Clients do not even need to consider themselves artists in order to benefit from art therapy, because it is Read More

By Mozelle DeLong February is for lovers, or is it? Valentine’s Day brings up memories of many things – school days as a child exchanging valentines in decorative boxes, our first love, our first heartbreak, and many other experiences. Our expectations are often high of this celebrated day. What are your expectations? Whether your partnered or not, this “day of love” may stir up a lot for us as we search for the underlying meaning of how “love” presents itself in our lives. The whole Read More

A Compassionate Guide to New Year’s Resolutions By Lindsey Wellmaker It’s officially 2019. The holiday celebrations have concluded –decorations are put away, loved ones have returned home, and the refrigerator is finally free of holiday leftovers. Many of us will begin to reflect on the past year (“how did I do?”) as well as the year that lies ahead (“how can I do better?”). It’s no surprise in this autonomous, individualistic culture that we eventually stumble upon “resolutions” –but Read More

By Erin Miller Rangeview Counseling Center is a unique place to receive care, and the same applies to being an intern or practicum student.  I began my practicum in the fall of 2017 and am currently working on a year long internship.  One of the reasons I was attracted to working at the site was the passion my supervisors have for working with clients to learn and employ meaningful change in their lives.  As for supervision, it appears the same goals apply.  My Read More

Practicing Gratitude By Samantha Ardoin, RCC Practicum student “Gratitude is the ability to reminisce about all the support and help we have received, with an attitude of humility. It is a state of mind. When we lovingly recognize the goodness in another person, it helps to awaken the goodness in ourselves.” - Amma With Thanksgiving this month and the rest of the holiday season around the corner, it’s almost inevitable that we start thinking about how we relate (and how we don’t relate) to Read More

As an intern, I have been seeing how hard it is for people to go through the court process. Dealing with the courts and all that comes with it can seem unbearable and it's no wonder that "court ordered therapy" can have a negative connotation. However, what I have seen, is that Rangeview is trying to help clients see that it can be better than that! Court mandated clients  first might find therapy to be a drag and just something they have to add to their to do list.  Before coming to class, Read More