Opinion ID: 2126789
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: katianne's ongoing counseling

Text: After being discharged from Lutheran Family Services, Katianne sought the help of Cynthia Jane Cusick, a mental health counselor and therapist. Cusick testified that she had been counseling Katianne once a week for the past 6 months. Cusick described Katianne's primary issue as major chronic depression with financial family stressors and economic stressors. Cusick explained that Katianne had made all but two of her scheduled appointments with her. One appointment was missed due to work, and the other one had been scheduled the night before the hearing, and had only been tentatively scheduled in case it was needed. Cusick described that Katianne was doing well with her sobriety and that it was not a major issue. As to issues relating to her depression, Cusick testified that Katianne was making steady improvement in baby steps. It would require lifetime intervention and treatment. Cusick believed that Katianne had been doing well raising Xavier's siblings. Cusick testified that having an intimate relationship with Xavier's father and letting him live in her house were greater stressor[s] than all of the children put together. However, Katianne had ended her relationship with Xavier's father.