Counseling and Functional Fitness focuses on the integration of mental health and fitness. Adam Barfoot, M.Ed., LPC-MHSP, is a mental health therapist and a CrossFit Level-Two Trainer. Counseling and Functional Fitness is for anyone who wants to improve themselves and help others. You can contact Adam by emailing counselingandfunctionalfitness@gmail.com. Visit Adam's website to learn more about his therapy practice: https://www.adambarfoottherapy.com/
#58: A Shipwreck, A Decision, and Excellence: Implementing Stoic Philosophy in the Therapy Room
This episode is an adapted version of a presentation that Adam Barfoot, M.Ed., LPC-MHSP, gave at the 2026 Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselor Association conference in Nashville, Tennessee on May 30, 2026. This episode focuses on helpful insights for therapists and therapy clients from Stoic philosophy. While sharing stories, metaphors, and psychological integration of wisdom from a philosophy that has helped its learners to create meaning from trauma, strength from pain, and to choose virtue over vice for many centuries, Stoic philosophy can be well-implemented by therapists now to help their clients in powerful ways.
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Adam's website: https://www.adambarfoottherapy.com/
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Books mentioned in this episode: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy by Gerald Corey, The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments by Epictetus, Mastery by Robert Greene, Resilience by Eric Greitens, Secrets of Exceptional Counselors by Jeffrey Kottler, On Character by General Stanley McChrystal
5 Jan 2026
#57: Choose Virtue Over Vice - Stoic Philosophy, Therapy, and Fitness (Part Five)
In this episode, Adam Barfoot, M.Ed., LPC-MHSP, discusses the importance of choosing virtue over vice, the roles that challenges play improving mental health, unselfish action, improving ourselves and helping others, the excellence of virtue, the role of right effort in therapy, the importance of aim in philosophy, therapy, and fitness, how we can become more courageous, the influence of virtue and vice on mental health, the role of improving decision-making in recovery from addiction, and what it means to think, feel, and act with virtue.
Adam's website: https://www.adambarfoottherapy.com/
Books mentioned in this episode: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, 12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson, The Secrets of Exceptional Counselors by Jeffrey Kottler
Email: counselingandfunctionalfitness@gmail.com
28 May 2025
#56: Lessons Learned From Yard Work - Stoic Philosophy, Therapy, and Fitness (Part Four)
Adam Barfoot explores Stoic philosophy through yard work, revealing how facing adversity builds strength and cultivates present moment awareness.
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