About: The Star Fish
One morning an older man was walking along
a beach as he has done for the past ten years.
On this particular day thousands of star fish
had washed upon the shore.
Further down the beach he sees a
another man picking the star fish up
and throwing them back into the sea.
When the older man got closer
he asked the other man "what are you doing."
The man said, "I am saving the star fish.
The older man smiled shaking his head and said,
"there are too many star fish on this Beach.
Do you really think you can make a difference?"
The other man’s face smiled as he
picked up yet another star fish and said,
"I’m making a difference to this one"
and tossed it back into the sea.
This story was taken from the book "The Star Thrower" by Loren Eiseley. It is told by teachers, counselors, nurses, and others. In the book the man was changed by the thrower and began throwing on his own:
"I picked and flung another star. Perhaps far outward on the rim of space a genuine star was similarly seized and flung. I could feel the movement in my body. It was like a sowing, the sowing of life on an infinitely gigantic scale. I looked back across my shoulder. Small and dark against the receding rainbow, the star thrower stooped and flung once more. I never looked again. The task we had assumed was too immense for gazing. I flung and flung again while all about us roared the insatiable waters of death." Pg.184
About: Our Mission
The mission of Family Recovery Center PLLC is to create positive change, provide support through workshops and counseling services, and enrich spiritual development for those who seek it.
About: Wayne Schmidt LPC LISAC
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE:
Wayne Schmidt has fourteen years of personal experience with recovery through living the 12 steps of self-help groups. Wayne is an active volunteer at church, working with youth for three years and a Celebrate Recovery program for over a year. Wayne strongly believes in spiritual principles and incorporates them into his daily life. Such principles are goals of the counseling experience: responsibility, integrity, honesty, humility, perseverence, love, service, confession, forgiveness, and accountability.
EDUCATION AND LICENSE:
Wayne graduated from ASU with a Bachelors degree in Psychology. He graduated with distinction from NAU with a Masters degree in Education and emphasis in counseling. He became a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor in June of 2001 now known as Licensed Independent Substance Abuse Counselor (LISAC). Wayne continued at Ottawa University, completing a CAGS degree with a 4.0 GPA, and recieved his License in Professional Counseling (LPC).
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Wayne worked for St. Lukes Hospital as a co-therapist in an adolescent intensive outpatient substance abuse group. He concurrently worked with adults suffering from mental illness at Triple R. Behavioral Health.
With Friendship PHP he worked as a group therapist and a care planner.
At Banner Behavioral Health Hospital he spent time in detox, residential units, psych units, family IOP, and adolescent IOP.
Before starting his own business, Wayne worked at Terros as a Therapist III performing substance abuse group therapy and case management for adults suffering with co-occuring disorders.
Special Thanks
Jerry Reed for technical and editing support.
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