My name is Brock Lutz. I am a licensed professional counselor and have been practicing for 3 years.

My bachelor's degree was in history at Hillsdale College (Michigan), which I pursued because of my love for the subject and my desire to pursue a major that I enjoyed. After graduation, I worked as a school teacher at Urban Community School, which is a private school on the near west side in Cleveland that is geared towards providing quality education for its students regardless of their socio-economical status. In order to pursue my master's degree, I took a job that was less intensive working for a non-profit organization teaching sex education and healthy lifestyle choices to middle school and high school age students in the Cleveland area. It was at this time that I began researching what master's degree would be most appropriate for me and chose the Community Counseling program at John Carroll because I wanted to work with teens, and adults. at a deeper level that what I was able to do as their teacher. I chose John Carroll because it is a cognitive-behavioral focused program but one that encourages its students to have various counseling techniques with which a counselor is familiar and applies what is best for the client (instead of applying the client to a theory or technique).

As an intern, I worked as a Multisystemic Therapist (MST) for Berea Children's Home and Family Services with youth who were involved with the juvenile court system. MST believes that change only takes place in youth when his or her entire "system" is involved in change (individual, family, peers, school, community). My job responsibilities were to: advocate for the client in court to remain in the community; conduct individual and family sessions; and to focus on empowering the family to be able to identify the root of family and behavioral issues and then brainstorm and implement a plan for change. At the same time, I was also interning as an individual and group therapist and working with individuals who have committed violent offenses and suffer from various addictions.

After graduation from John Carroll, I continued to work at Berea Children's Home and a small private practice where I saw clients who were struggling with spiritual issues, depression, anxiety, marital and family problems, and addictions. I continued to work at both until I began at Psych and Psych.

As a therapist at Psych and Psych, I primarily work as a chemical dependency therapist. My present responsibilities are to: lead an adolescent and adult intensive outpatient group (IOP) that meets three times per week; meet with individuals who are dealing with spiritual concerns, depression, general anxiety, family/marital concerns, anger issues, and various addiction problems. Psych and Psych also works in collaboration with Cuyahoga County Adult Probation's Sex Offender Unit; and in that capacity I perform sex offender evaluations for new offenders on the unit and lead a weekly sex offender group.