Therapy On The Fly
In our complex world, the stressful events of life can drive you crazy…in my case it’s a short drive. After four wives and four divorces, I could use attention from a mental health professional…at least that’s what the voices in my head tell me.
I need a healthy environment and professional analysis by a trained therapist to keep me from fantasizing about choking the life out my ex’s attorney with rusty piano wire. I would rather clean toilets at a truck stop than to go through another deposition.
The good news is the good people from ‘Therapy On The Fly’ are here to help.
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“In the red rocks of central Utah is an opportunity that combines a rare mix of mother nature’s therapy and clinical counseling. Scott Peterson, LCSW, has spent the last ten years working to fulfill a desire to combine profession with passion. Therapy on the Fly is the manifestation of both.
He takes his training and profession and instead of working in an office, he takes his clients out for session in mother nature’s office. Scott brought the two ideas together in a marriage and family counseling class when the professor (himself a fly fisher), related a concept to fly fishing—the light bulb went off in Peterson’s head. What better place to unwind problems than on the river?
Now in his third year of guiding, Scott started when a neighbor who owns The Quiet Fly Fisher asked Scott if he could help out on a day that he was double booked. Since then, being a guide has given Scott an amazing opportunity to improve his teaching and fly fishing skills at the same time.
People are surprised when you talk about great fly fishing in the middle of what is thought of as the central Utah desert. “People are shocked—I was shocked—when I came down to interview for a job at a residential therapeutic facility,” muses Peterson. There are literally hundreds of miles of streams and rivers, and hundreds of high mountain lakes filled with record size brookies, rainbows, browns, cutts, lakers and the more exotic splake, tiger trout and a few secret spots with graylng.
Earlier in the week, Scott caught his personal best tiger trout; 3 ½ pound, 20-inch tiger trout. Within a short drive from Wayne County. Fishermen will find the Boulder Mountains, the Fremont River and Pine Creek – three of Scott’s favorite areas to fish.
When the spawn is on at Fish Lake, the rainbow fishing is unbelievable. Sounds like my kind of therapy. I could use a daily dose.”
Scott Peterson, LCSW
Honey, I am going to therapy to help our relationship, not because I want to get away from your nagging.
