Lights Along the Way: A Therapist's Reflections on Life

About the Book

In LIGHTS ALONG THE WAY: A THERAPIST’S REFLECTIONS ON LIFE, the Rev. Dr. Robert E. Buxbaum shares his understanding of the life process based upon a career of more than 30 years as a therapist and family counselor. Often using his own life experience to provide illustration, the author explores family relationships, parenting issues, rites of passage, and mental health concerns by means of brief reflective essays that shed light on the stages of our life journeys. The author writes about the often neglected but deeply felt human experiences of uncertainty, loneliness, and loss, and invites the reader to experience their own feelings without guilt or apprehension.

About the Author

The late Robert E. Buxbaum, D. Min., was an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He was licensed as both a Master Social Worker - Advanced Clinical Practitioner, and as a Marriage and Family Therapist. In addition to his own successful private practice in psychotherapy and family counseling, Dr. Buxbaum served on faculty for more than 20 years at McCormick Theological Seminary, and also taught Gerontology at both Trinity University and the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. Previously he had authored two monographs on aging.