Lindsay Lohan will be spending more time at the Betty Ford Center in California, but one Canadian therapist thinks some fresh, fall East Coast air could be just the relief she needs.
Today, a judge ordered Lohan back to rehab until January 3, 2011. According to the celebrity news site TMZ, the actress is then due back in court on February 25; until then, she will be subject to drug testing. If she stays clean, the judge will convert her sentence to unsupervised probation, the report says.
But Michael Ungar, a family therapist and Dalhousie University professor, has another suggestion. In a recent blog post at Psychology Today, he invited Lohan to pack her bags and experience some East Coast-style “quiet calm.”
“When I read about young adults like her, and there are others like Brittany and Paris, I want to send them a short personal note: ‘Come out to the quiet East Coast and get some therapy. I can help. I think you need a little time in a safe place where people are more genuine and where you'll be able to remember who you are beyond the frenzy of photographers,’” writes Ungar, author of The We Generation: Raising Socially Responsible Kids.
He wrote the piece after reading the recent Vanity Fair profile of the troubled star, he told The Globe and Mail on Friday. “Seriously, I feel for a lot of these people. I don’t think they’re surrounded with people who are honest with them.”
