Introduction to My Website
Welcome to my website! My name is Lane Lasater, a retired clinical psychologist. In gratitude for the life I have been given, I am sharing everything I learned during my career and personal life here on my website https://www.LaneLasater.com and on my YouTube Channel Life Roadmaps from a Retired Psychologist https://www.youtube.com/@lane205 Each post contains my written material, an AI generated graphic, a 15-17 minute audio summary, and a 5-7 minute video summarizing the material.
Here is the audio summary of this post:
Discovering Psychology
Through a series of fortuitous events after college, I served for two years as an attendant at a psychiatric hospital in Colorado. My parents were cattle ranchers, so psychology was an entirely new and fascinating world for me. During this service I experienced first hand the entire realm of human psychological troubles and treatment approaches at that time. By the end of this experience, I decided to become a clinical psychologist, and began the long journey of study and training toward that goal. Most importantly, I recognized that the family I grew up in was very troubled and discovered I had a great deal of healing to do before I could be truly helpful to others.
Over the next eight years while I completed my training, I worked in hospitals, community mental health centers, and schools and I had the great privilege of learning from wonderful mentors. I grew in understanding myself, and learned how to help children, adults, couples, and families. Then I had the privilege of working as a psychologist for the next 35 years. Through all these experiences, I found that people most commonly sought help for the following problems in living:
- Depression, Anxiety and Grief
- Self-defeating Life Patterns and Addictions
- Romantic Relationship Problems
- Parenting and Family Challenges
- Work and Career Challenges
During my training, I had to face and learn to overcome my own problems in each of these five areas deriving from growing up in a troubled family system. Ironically, my own healing experiences gave me a deep understanding of how challenging the healing and recovery process can be. The gift of my own experience combined with my professional training was that I could speak from first hand experience. People appreciated the guidance of someone who was walking my own recovery path. This recognition became the theme of much of my work–providing people with roadmaps to help them navigate their own healing process. I discovered how empowering and helpful this information and guidance could be to people facing challenges with their own families and life choices. This led to writing my first self-help book called Recovery from Compulsive Behavior which reached many people. I went on to develop guidance for healing from family trauma, solving relationship problems, raising responsible children, and other dimensions of the five areas above. During the later part of my career I developed school character development and life skills curricula for at risk youth which reached students and parents in 17 states. I am making all this information available on this website and on my YouTube channel.
I published several more books summarizing my work, the first on healing family trauma, the second on how to find a life partner, and a forcoming book on parenting.
The first book, Transcending Family Trauma https: https://www.amazon.com/Transcending-Family-Trauma-Experiences-Fundamental-ebook/dp/B09F4P1LBW/ provides a complete roadmap to recovery.
My first series of blog posts presents all the material in this book. Click on this link https://www.lanelasater.com/transcending-family-trauma/ or the menu above to access this series:
My second book, Smart Happy Love https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Happy-Love-Relationship-Partnership/dp/1737527529/ offers a roadmap to finding and creating a healthy life partnership. I cover all the material in that book in my series of blog posts under the heading above “Finding a Life Partner.”
My most recent book is Purposeful Parenting Handbook. This book focuses on parenting school aged children and teenagers. It helps you clarify family needs, goals and boundaries so you can undertake child rearing with confidence. It combines personal parenting experience with professional knowledge to offer field-tested parenting guidance you can immediately put to use.
These books represent the distillation of three central dimensions of my professional work–and I want to share each concept that they include. But there are more road tools for life and building blocks that I will make available on this website and on my YouTube channel. Utilizing AI, each module I offer is presented as a short video on YouTube, and in written, audible, graphic and video form on this website so you can access this information in whatever modality is most convenient for you.
I am tremendously grateful for all the training I received from wonderful mentors, and the for support, trust and kindness of my partner in life, my sons, clients, and professional and recovery friends. It is my hope that the knowledge I have gained can help you understand the challenges you face in healing, romantic relationships, finding fulfilling work, parenting, and maintaining your well-being through the ups and downs of life. Best wishes to you on your life journey and may all your dreams come true!
Disclaimer
This website is designed to give you information to help you be successful in your life decisions and relationships. The information and suggestions provided are for the reader’s education and consideration only. Providing information and practical tools to you about personal and relationship challenges and solutions does not constitute the practice of psychotherapy or medicine. Lane Lasater, Ph.D. has taken care to alert you to serious warning signs and encourage you to seek licensed professional help when indicated. The information provided here is not a substitute for assessment, diagnosis and treatment of any mental disorder and cannot substitute for the services of a mental health care professional or physician. It is intended for instructional purposes only. The use of this information is solely at your own risk.
Trigger and Content Warning: Please be aware that the website includes descriptions of trauma, PTSD, child abuse, alcoholism, family violence, drug addiction, sexual addiction, compulsive behavior patterns including overeating, bulimia, sexual abuse, depression, disability, divorce, anger, sex, and terminal illness which could disturb or trigger upsetting memories for certain readers.
Lane Lasater, Ph.D. shall have no liability for claims by, or damages of any kind to, a user of this information. Such damages include, without limitation, damages for personal injuries, emotional distress, and other non-monetary loss, as well as direct or indirect damages. I have made all reasonable efforts to include accurate information to you but make no warranties or representations as to its accuracy, completeness, or timeliness. Lane Lasater, Ph.D. assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of this written and electronic work. To the full extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied. By using the information on this website, you are agreeing to the provisions of this disclaimer, and you waive all claims that may arise in connection with your use of this information and understand that you use this information at your own risk.