by DrSteveH | Dec 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is not a stage. Not a performance. Just a chair, a cup of coffee, and a space where real stories are spoken, and real pain is honored. I do not sit in this chair as someone who has it all figured out. I have been on the other side of the room, sitting where my...
by DrSteveH | Nov 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
PRESS ReleaseDr. Steve Hudgins, an Oklahoma-based licensed professional counselor, adjunct professor, author, researcher, and U.S. Army veteran, is proposing targeted reforms to strengthen the Equal Access and Mental Health in Child Custody Act (HB 1082). Dr. Hudgins...
by DrSteveH | Oct 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Why Oklahoma’s Custody Laws Must Catch Up to Mental Health Science Across Oklahoma courtrooms, families are breaking apart, not from bruises or blows, but from something far quieter and crueler, the emotional violence that twists a child’s love into a weapon. When a...
by DrSteveH | Sep 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
Family courts have a profound and often underestimated impact on the mental health of children caught in high-conflict custody disputes. Research shows that children involved in prolonged legal battles, especially where one or both parents exhibit traits of...
by DrSteveH | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
When adults wage war, a child becomes the battlefield and carries the shrapnel in silence. — Dr. Steve Hudgins There is a quiet heartbreak in the fallout of divorce that reverberates most deeply in the hearts of children. In the scramble of legal wrangling, “who gets...
