ADHD: Combining Medication and Counseling

Life Tree Counseling Pat Murray

Beyond the Individual ADHD, or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, has a reach that extends far beyond the afflicted person.  Much as conversation and companionship is spread across each seat at the dinner table, so are the unique challenges and difficulties posed by the disorder “passed around” by loved ones and family members.  When the burden…

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Teens and Tweens: The Pressures of Our Teens Today

LaShondra Manning play therapy counselor

The teenage years are anything but simple. Not only do today’s teens or tweens need to forge their identity as a young adult, they need to cope with a social structure that is being made ever more complex by technology and new expectations. School assignments are getting more demanding for teens today. The looming focus…

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Facts about ADD and ADHD

Life Tree Counseling Kathleen Mills

Attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are two variations of a medical condition that involves symptoms such as impaired, lowered focus during daily tasks, difficulty ignoring distractions, problems with learning and following commands at work, which may or may not be accompanied by hyperactivity. Mental health expert Pat Murray explains that,…

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