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  Lake Country Associates will again be offering Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) therapy group on Wednesday afternoons beginning July 18, 2018. What Is STEPPS? STEPPS is a cognitive behavioral, skills training approach...

Have you ever been distracted in a public place and lost track of your young child for even 15 seconds?  Do you recall how it felt?  How about when you were a child; do you remember getting briefly separated from a parent while in a store?  Imagine having that feeling...

by Diane Cerven, LPCC With the recent celebrity deaths by suicide it’s on our minds to reach out to people in need. We look at celebrities who kill themselves and we ask, why?  They’re rich, they’re famous.  If someone like Anthony Bourdain can commit suicide, when he...

by Loretta Bach, LADC What's the difference between a Rule 25, a Chemical Use Assessment and a Comprehensive Assessment? What is Peer Support and Treatment Coordination? Do I need Outpatient Treatment, Substance Use Disorder Treatment or Residential Treatment? What's...

Lake Country Associates welcomes Laura Hansen Master’s of Social Work (MSW), Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) to our Bemidji office. Laura has thirty-two years of experience working in the mental health, counseling and social work field. In 2008,...

Community members may have heard that the state of Minnesota's crisis text provider "Txt4life" is ending next month. This service will be moving from a Minnesota provider to an existing national nonprofit called Crisis Text Line. Txt4life will be responding to texts...

Please join us in welcoming Loretta Bach, LADC to the Lake Country team.  Loretta graduated from Minnesota State University-Mankato with certification in chemical dependency counseling in 1986. She went on to work towards certification as a CCDCR and was ultimately...

Lake Country Cottage drop-in center has been open for a couple months now.  Construction on the building is complete and Members have been working to make their drop-in center comfortable for everyone.  Since opening, there have been many improvements and changes...