One of the most important therapy principles of all
is:
Ask clearly and directly for what you want!
That's what I'm doing here.
YOU CAN HELP THIS SITE BY:
Spreading The Word
Giving Feedback
Making Contributions and Purchases
Sharing Your Expertise
SPREADING THE WORD
Please keep telling your friends about this site!
If you've read Letters from Visitors
you know that a lot of good happens because of this site.
Even without advertising, the number of people who visit this site consistently
goes up about 5% per month. At the current rate, about 100,000 visitors
will click on HelpYourselfTherapy in the next twelve months. And everything
good that happens here happens because people like you keep spreading
the word.
The easiest way to tell your friends is to click on "Send
This Page To A Friend" (at the bottom of every page).
Think especially of all the "helpers" you know: therapists,
counselors, clergy, all of the caring people. They know other people
who want this kind of information - and they can use this information
for themselves and in their attempts to help others. Therapy groups,
support groups, church groups, book clubs and nearly every other kind
of organization you might belong to may be interested in our healthy
info.
FEEDBACK
I need your comments!
This site is a one-man operation. I can't hire a staff
to help with a nonprofit endeavor, so my visitors are my staff.
The easiest way to help is to click on "Send me your comments about
this page" (bottom of every page). Use this form for every topic
you read, or just for the ones you feel most strongly about. When you
add a personal comment, that helps the most.
If you find typos, or you think something is particularly unclear or
confusing, please let me know.
If you know that something factual I say here is wrong, tell me!
If you have a whole different point of view than mine and you want to
teach me about it, please send a detailed e-mail by clicking on "Tony
Schirtzinger, Therapist-Milwaukee" (bottom of every page). I will
acknowledge your letter and I might want to discuss our differing points
of view.
CONTRIBUTIONS
AND PURCHASES
Money does help!
This site is nonprofit. I don't advertise and I don't accept ads. The
costs of running this site aren't compensated.
I do sell a few things at What You Can Buy Here
but these things are mostly provided as a courtesy and there's no real
profit involved.
The bottom line is simply this: Contributions help, I accept them, and
I appreciate small and large ones equally.
To make a contribution, just write to me by clicking on "Tony Schirtzinger,
Therapist-Milwaukee" (bottom of every page). Tell me what you'd
like to contribute and let me know if you want to use a credit card
or send a check.
HOW EXPERTS CAN HELP
Your knowledge and skill can help.
If you are an expert in an area that applies to this site,
and if you are willing to advise me for free, that would be great.
Some of the experts I know I could use are:
COMPUTER EXPERTS - Sometimes when my computer isn't working, people
who want my help are stranded for a while. I need someone who is willing
to answer what might seem to them to be basic computer questions to
make my life easier. (I'm not computer illiterate. I just need someone
to call when I get stuck.)
PUBLISHERS - By now you probably know that my major motivation is
my belief that: "Everyone deserves to know what therapists know!"
You can help me with this if you know new ways to get broad exposure
for the information at this site. I am currently working with an editor/agent
who is looking into this for me, but your ideas and personal contacts
can also help. I would like to publish without a whole lot of new
writing, but I do understand that much work would be needed to organize
the material differently, to make editing and formatting changes,
etc.
ADVERTISING - I've done a pretty good job of getting listed on search
engines and on most of the large psychology sites, but I'm sure there
are other free and easy ways to advertise that I'm not aware of. If
you know about such things, please teach me.
CARTOONING AND GRAPHICS - It would be fun to work with someone on
a few cartoon-like animations for this site, but, although I love
to draw designs and weird stuff (see Fun
Stuff ), I can't draw anything that looks real! If you think you'd
Enjoy working with me on such a project, please let me know.
YOUR TALENTS - Your particular talents might be just what this site
needs! If you have ideas about how you can share your talents, let's
talk about it!
What I want most is for you to PARTICIPATE.
Participate in any way you like.
Your opinions and your kindness will always be greatly appreciated.