In February, we spoke with Jim Furrow, who has worked closely with our clinical staff over the last five years as a trainer and consultant. Jim is an internationally recognized leader and contributor to the practice of Emotionally Focused Therapy with couples and families. Together with EFT originator Susan Johnson, he coauthored seminal works on EFT as it is practiced for couples and...

By Beverly Shrumm, Executive Director Our history as an agency has relied on faithfulness to our core mission and on an openness to strategic changes to further that mission. Another significant strategic change lies ahead. I have determined, considering the costs we face and our reduced need for a such a large facility, that selling our building in the Green Lake neighborhood is our...

Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt, surprised me with its charming characterizations, implausible interspecies relationships and healing connections. Tova Sullivan, the main character, lost her son, Eric, years ago when he was just 18, and she was recently widowed at the age of 70. Facing an unknown future, she copes with her loneliness by staying busy at her night job...