by Scott Spradlin, LPC, LMAC | Aug 18, 2023 | Marriage, Relationships
Marriage is a supreme challenge. To love with integrity and openness to growth requires particular dispositions, knowledge, and embodied skills. Many of the couples that come to me for therapy are as desirous of connection and intimacy as they are frustrated with the... 
by Scott Spradlin, LPC, LMAC | Mar 27, 2023 | Parenting, Relationships, Resolute DBT for Men
For the men who desire to be responsible spouses and fathers but who didn’t have solid male role models growing up, and who have tenuous attachment histories with their family of origins, and who may even carry the burdens of trauma that have a detrimental... 
by Scott Spradlin, LPC, LMAC | Mar 23, 2023 | DBT, Resolute DBT for Men, Uncategorized
The Boys are Back in Town Here at NorthStar Therapy, home of Wichita DBT, we have seen a steady and impressive increase of men self-referring for therapy. These self-referred men range in age from twenty-ish up to their forties. They come seeking support for their... 
by Scott Spradlin, LPC, LMAC | Jun 3, 2022 | DBT, Emotion Regulation, Marriage, Mindfulness, Relationships
When couples present for therapy they typically come following chronic disruptions in respective and mutual attention. The problems they bring into the consulting room, or to telehealth, as the case may be now in our post-covid times, are the result of depleted... 
by Scott Spradlin, LPC, LMAC | May 24, 2022 | DBT
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray All of us struggle with our emotions from time to time. Perhaps in the way that Dorian Gray expresses in the...
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