Kent Weishaus is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in California. He has worked in mental hospitals, community clinics, schools, and served as an adjunct professor at Cal State Los Angeles, teaching social work theory and practice classes to master degree students.

Prior to Kent’s switch to a “helping-profession,” he had a 25-year career in television production, directing and working with many celebrities and actors, writing and producing promotions and teases, interacting with numerous network executives, finance and legal personnel, and supervising hundreds of crew-members.

Kent made this switch as he was becoming aware that much of his work in television production was only adding to the sensory and narrative demands of today’s world in ways that made functioning worse for many viewers. Simultaneous to switching professions Kent began researching how the 21st century culture and environment was eclipsing our development and evolutionary capabilities. His therapeutic style looks at our abstract thinking skills and self-aware consciousness, and how these set us apart from other mammals and give us the ability to collectively adopt the all-encompassing technology, stories and myths that make up today’s world – for better or worse.

Kent’s book, Stop Breaking Down, can be found via his website, kentw.net. It reveals how to step back, take the high ground, observe and understand how overwhelming engagement with 21st century systems interacts with our biological and mental processes, and how best to avoid the resulting overwhelm and crack-up.