June 03, 2025

4 Keys to Men’s Mental Health: What Most Men Are Missing

June 03, 2025/ Red River Counseling

In honor of Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, this post explores four essential — yet often overlooked — elements that help men come fully alive: Play, Risk, Comradery, and Rest. Drawing from years of experience as a counselor and participant in men’s work, I’ve seen how these areas are often missing in men’s lives, leaving a gap that counseling alone can’t fill. This piece invites men to reclaim these vital parts of themselves for deeper emotional health and wholeness.

May 07, 2025

Dr. Henry's Research: ACEs and Pornography Use

May 07, 2025/ Red River Counseling

Dr. Henry’s research on the relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and pornography exposure and use was recently published in the peer-reviewed Counseling Journal of Sexology and Sexual Wellness. Read on for a brief synopsis and link to further resources.

December 02, 2024

Uprooted: Returning home from college for holiday breaks

December 02, 2024/ Red River Counseling

Returning home from college can be challenging. This article lays out 5 steps to help you get the most out of going home for breaks.

November 08, 2024

A guide for coping with chronic stress

November 08, 2024/ Red River Counseling

Chronic stress impairs, debilitates, and injures us. So what can we do about it? In this article you will find practical areas to address in your life that will allow you to make changes to your external and internal environment, so that you can better manage the impact of chronice stress.

November 04, 2024

Train rather than Try

November 04, 2024/ Red River Counseling

I found myself frustrated with the way I was engaging relationships and had a friend encoruage me to ‘train rather than try’ to do something different. This article explores how to start practicing some new behaviors and attitudes in order to make some desired relationship patterns permanent.

October 30, 2024

Navigating Conflict in Political Times

October 30, 2024/ Red River Counseling

In a recent interview with WLBT, Dr. Henry discusses how to navigate conflict around politics with family members. This article is a brief overview of the principles laid out by relationship researchers Dr. John and Julie Gottman.

October 14, 2024

Problem Understanding vs. Problem Solving

October 14, 2024/ Red River Counseling

Are you focused on problem solving, or problem understanding? The first leads to a quick out, but almost always back to the problem. Understanding takes time, work, guidance, and perseverance, but can lead to real change. This article focuses on the difference.

May 06, 2024

Create an Emotional Budget

May 06, 2024/ Red River Counseling

How is your emotional spending and saving? Do you barely have margins or are you emotionally bankrupt? Read on to think through how you can budget out your emotional energy.

April 15, 2024

A Tribute to Ruth Glaze

April 15, 2024/ Red River Counseling

A tribute to my mentor, friend, sage, and colleague…Ruth Mail Glaze. I wrote down a few of the things she taught me about living well in this world.

February 21, 2024

What you need for Recovery...

February 21, 2024/ Red River Counseling

What are the necessary elements for recovery from addiction?
First, you need to know what causes vulnerability to addiction.
This short article will point out the three necessary aspects of recovering from addiction.

November 13, 2023

Marriage on the Rocks (How rock climbing and marriage go together)

November 13, 2023/ Red River Counseling

Reflections on a recent Better Together Couples Adventure. What does marriage have to do with rock climbing? Read more to see how attunement, communication, and trust all show up on the rocks….

October 12, 2023

Little Movements...

October 12, 2023/ Red River Counseling

“What can I change in how I live today?” is a much better question than “What can I change to fix my life?”

August 21, 2023

What makes you vulnerable to addiction?

August 21, 2023/ Red River Counseling

What makes an addict? Is it genetics or bad decisions or something else? There are three things that research shows creates a vulnerability to addiction.

March 10, 2023

New Location...More Options

March 10, 2023/ Red River Counseling

Located at 14 Professional Pkwy in Ridgeland, Mississippi, we have in-house referrals including Licensed Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, and Psychologists.

January 09, 2023

What does it mean to not 'grumble or dispute'?

January 09, 2023/ Red River Counseling

What does it mean to ‘not grumble or complain’? Does it mean to keep silent or just go along with things? Or does it mean that we ought to deal with people honestly and straightforwardly? This article looks at this phrase and some practicaly ways to deal with conflict.

August 28, 2022

Lewis was wrong... Aslan is safe

August 28, 2022/ Red River Counseling

Was C.S. Lewis right? Is God unsafe but good? Or, does Scripture demonstrate a God who offers a safe and secure relationship?

June 08, 2022

A lot of my fear is gone...

June 08, 2022/ Red River Counseling

Reflections on facing fear in the mountains….not only of heights, but of being alone

February 03, 2022

Drivers License - parenting teens

February 03, 2022/ Red River Counseling

How do you parent your kid when they no longer need you for everything? How can you start to hand over responsibility?

September 10, 2021

How do you Remember 9/11?

September 10, 2021/ Red River Counseling

How do you remember 9/11? Does you remembering move you towards hate or love, anxiety or freedom, pride or anxiety? In this short reflection, we’ll focus on how we remember more than what we remember, in hopes that we better honor those who perished.

August 31, 2021

Apocalyptic

August 31, 2021/ Red River Counseling

Apocalyptic. No, not the kind with Nic Cage at the end of the world. But the kind that reveals the true nature of things. What’s this pandemic revealed about us? About you? About our needs and fears? This short article looks at four characteristics that have been exposed during the pandemic, and how to remedy them.

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