Hello and thank you for visiting my website. I am a clinical psychologist in Birmingham, Michigan in the metro Detroit area, and Cheboygan, Michigan in Northern Michigan, focusing on the treatment of mental health and substance abuse disorders. In my practice, as a certified Cognitive Therapist through the Academy of Cognitive Therapy in Philadelphia, I…
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Lawyer’s Guide to the DSM-5 for Substance Use Disorders
If your Michigan operator’s license has been revoked for multiple drunk driving arrests, then a hearing will be required before your license can be reinstated. At this hearing, you will be required to submit a substance abuse evaluation. This is defined by the applicable administrative rules as follows: (o) “Substance abuse evaluation” means a written…
Bi-Weekly Personal Growth Group
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Psychodrama Group with Dr. Corby This 2 1/2 hour twice monthly psychodrama group is an on-going personal growth co-ed group for men and women. These groups will use psychodramatic techniques, sociometry, and many other empirically-supported methods to enhance personal development. In this group we address a wide variety of issues, such as depression, anxiety,…
Michigan Substance Abuse Evaluations for Teens and Young Adults
Michigan Teenagers who drink can sometimes find themselves on the wrong side of the law. This includes being charged with crimes like MIP (minor in possession) and Minor BAC (which is under age drunk driving , also known as zero tolerance), among others. Many courts in Michigan treat underage drinking very seriously. Some judges have…
Follow these 14 Steps to Avoid Relapse
During the holidays and after the beginning of the new year, therapists often see an uptick in people who are stressed out and feeling depressed. If this sounds like you, then you may also be at higher risk of relapse whether it be due to alcohol, drugs, sex and pornography, eating, spending or gambling. Here…
Charles R. Schuster Left Mark on Detroit’s Addiction Recovery Community
Dr. Charles R. Schuster came to Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1995 to take responsibility for forming a substance abuse research center. He had recently left his position as Director of the National Institute for Drug Abuse, National Institute for Health (NIH) where he had served for the prior 8 years under then…
Trial Lawyer’s Use of Psychodrama
Psychodrama is a deep action method developed by Jacob Levy Moreno (1889-1974), in which people enact scenes from their lives, dreams or fantasies in an effort to gain new insights and understandings, and practice new and more satisfying behaviors.[i] Psychodrama is an amazingly versatile modality. As a method of healing it has been used in…
Psychodrama: Social Networking for Healing
One of my favorite psychotherapeutic methods has not even been widely recognized as strictly “psychotherapy” at all. It is called psychodrama, which, conceived and developed by Jacob L. Moreno, MD, employs guided dramatic action to examine problems or issues raised by an individual (psychodrama) or a group (sociodrama). It is considered a hybrid between mind exploration (Greek: psycho = “mind”)…
Social Anxiety: Changing your brain with psychotherapy
Medication and psychotherapy have both been demonstrated to help people with an anxiety disorder. But research on the effects of psychotherapy on nerve cells has lagged far behind that on medication-induced changes in the brain. There have been preliminary studies which have demonstrated superior effects (from patient’s reports) from cognitive therapy over medication, in quelling…
Want a good mental work out to cure your bad habits? Try Cognitive Brain Training
A promising new type of cognitive therapy called “brain training” has been demonstrated to be useful in treating drug addiction, according to an article recently published in the recent issue of Biological Psychiatry: Warren K. Bickel, Richard Yi, Reid D. Landes, Paul F. Hill, Carole Baxter. Remember the Future: Working Memory Training Decreases Delay Discounting…