Has your daughter ever looked in the mirror and said, “I’m too fat”? You’ve told her she’s a child of God, and she believed you for about seventeen seconds. Logic alone can’t win this battle.

In this episode of How to Be a Wonderful Counselor, licensed counselor Dr. Tracy Hogan McMillan shares 30 years of clinical experience in five simple steps any parent can learn: CALM + WHY. Through the story of Bella, a teen caught in diet culture and comparison, you’ll learn how to:

✔️ Listen so your child actually feels heard
✔️ Gently replace the world’s lies with facts and logic
✔️ Use Moroni 7 to shift her focus from looking good to doing good
✔️ Help her choose one small step and find her own reasons to change

Satan says look good. God says do good.

📖 Scriptures: Moroni 7:5–28, Acts 10:38, Doctrine and Covenants 6:36, 1 Nephi 15:24

💬 Looking for faith-based counseling for your family? I offer virtual counseling through Riverwoods Behavioral Health https://rbh.care/contact-us/

If you or your child are struggling with suicidal thoughts, call or text 988. If someone you love has stopped eating, please seek professional help right away.

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Your child says, "I have no idea what to study in college." Here's how to help them find the career God gifted them for.

Hi, I'm Dr. Tracy Hogan McMillan. In this episode, I walk through a real career-counseling session with a returned missionary. You'll see a simple method you can use at your own kitchen table.

What if the thing that finally reaches your struggling teenager isn’t a powerful lecture—but one simple conversation repeated every week?

Greyson was sixteen when gaming took over his life. His parents tried restrictions, counseling, activities, prayers, and priesthood blessings. Nothing seemed to work. He lost his friends, his scholarship, and his place at BYU. But one small and simple habit never stopped: every Sunday, one parent spent Time Alone with him. “By small and simple things are great things brought to pass.” — Alma 37:6

In this episode, discover why consistent, loving attention can accomplish what lectures and consequences cannot—and how “small and simple things” can help the Lord bring about great changes in your child’s life.

Small and simple things. Every week. Every week. Every week.

When someone loses everything — like Job did — what do you actually say?

Most well-meaning comfort accidentally lands as criticism: "At least they're with God now." "Everything happens for a reason." "Cheer up." In this video, we walk through the Old Testament story of Job and use the CALM method to show what compassionate care really sounds like:

C – Ask a Compassionate question (not a critical one)
A – Bring in Ask/facts to help move pain from the emotional brain to the logical brain
L – Find what the Lord says in scripture
M – Land on one small My Next Step

Job lost his children, his health, his wealth — and his friends made it worse by implying it was his fault. We show how to avoid that trap, how to validate real pain without rushing someone past it, and how one verse changed everything for Job:

"Thou knowest the greatness of God; and he shall consecrate thine afflictions for thy gain." — 2 Nephi 2:2

Faith doesn't mean pretending life is fair. It means trusting that through Jesus Christ, pain doesn't have to be wasted.

🕊️ If you're walking with someone through catastrophic loss — or living through it yourself — this one's for you.

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What do you do when you simply don’t feel strong enough for what you’re facing?

In this episode, I share how financial stress, rental-property problems, and a very opinionated Norwegian inner critic led me back to Alma 31:31–38 and Alma’s prayer for strength.

Using the C-A-L-M Method, we’ll look at how faith, wise thinking, and one inspired next step can help us face problems we cannot immediately fix.

Struggling with a child who's always on a screen? You don't need a Counseling degree — you need C.A.L.M.

In this video, we dive into Words of Mormon 1:18 and pull out a simple, scripture-rooted framework any parent can use when gaming or social media has taken over their child's life. After 30 years of clinical counseling experience, I've distilled it down to four steps:

C – Concerns
A – AI-assisted facts and logic
L – Lord
M – My next step

No advanced degree required — just a willingness to sit down with your child, lean on this scripture, and walk through four steps that actually work. Whether your son is glued to a controller or your daughter can't put her phone down, CALM gives you a practical, faith-centered starting point.

You don't need a master's degree in counseling psychology to comfort, guide, and inspire.

In this series, I share the best of my 30 years of professional counseling experience, distilled into simple steps you can actually use.

You'll learn how to listen with compassion, use AI carefully as a research assistant, and find one powerful scripture that can become a lifeline for someone you love — something you can keep "in your back pocket" for the difficult moments.

Most importantly, these scriptures will help you comfort those who stand in need of comfort and help ease heavy burdens.

This series is about becoming more like our Savior Jesus Christ, the most wonderful Counselor of all.