The leader of Lawrence’s community mental health center would like to bring in a company to conduct an external evaluation or survey of staff. Amid some elevated concerns about public perception after seven specialized therapists resigned en masse, Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center CEO Patrick Schmitz said he has approval from the governing board’s president, Brad Burnside, to move forward in the ...
A website for the new DBT Center of Lawrence and Kansas City went live Friday afternoon, and it lists the two locations that will soon house the business. Several therapists who recently resigned en masse from the dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) program at Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center are starting the DBT Center as their own private practice. The website does not list the individual ...
I remember how I loved meandering through stores’ school supply aisles. My eyes would light up as I ran my fingers over sparkly pencil pouches; I adored the spiral-bound notebooks with kittens on their covers. Impractical? Maybe, but oh, how I loved them. But that was last year, and I like to think I have more self-control nowadays. Plus, I already bought the set of 120 gel pens, and a handful of them still ...
The reasons why seven therapists resigned en masse from the Bert Nash Community Mental Health center remain unclear, but indications are that many of the therapists plan to open a new therapy center in Lawrence. Multiple patients of the therapists have told the Journal-World they’ve been informed that six of the seven departing therapists are going to open their own practice that specializes in the intensive ...
Sometimes, you just need to get away. Any longtime Lawrence folk can tell you that although this town may not have quite the hustle and bustle of a big city, life can get hectic here in suburbia. If you’re experiencing a Thoreau-esque transcendental itch and need to escape into nature for a bit, here are some of the best options in the area to do so. I asked the Friends of Lawrence Area Trails for some ...
Monday will mark two weeks since seven specialized therapists simultaneously submitted letters of resignation at Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, and 17 days until their last day, Aug. 15. As the Journal-World has reported, the seven are practitioners in the center’s dialectical behavior therapy program, or DBT. The treatment targets those who “struggle with a variety of emotional and behavioral ...