The key to a satisfying therapy experience is the relationship between clinician and client, the right fit. It is my aim to create a comfortable, safe and accepting atmosphere to facilitate your healing process. Rather than a silent onlooker in the room, I am vocal and engaged, utilizing your personal history and in-the-room observations to heighten your understanding of circumstances and guide you towards positive change.

My work involves the development of an overall helping relationship with people like you. The purpose of the counseling process is to work together to help you with the concerns that bring you into the counseling relationship. Identifying concerns and developing plans to address them often involves the process of personal change. This process can produce dramatic results, though often the process takes time and recurrent effort. Having the appropriate tools and resources can facilitate the accomplishment of goals and many times the results of counseling include the efforts you exert outside the counseling setting. Counseling requires active participation from you and me. We must work together toward your goals. This work can include the use of several different techniques and approaches.

The foundation of the therapy we will engage in encompasses the theories of various past and present leaders in the field of human behavioral change. These include, at the very least, helpful approaches like “Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy” as developed by Drs. Aaron Beck and Donald Michenbaum and “Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy” from Dr. Albert Ellis. As techniques and theoretical orientations are introduced into our counseling relationship you will have an opportunity to survey the founding theories through my library and I will be obliged to assist in any further inquiry you may have. You are encouraged to learn how theoretical orientation guides and enhances the process of the helping relationship. We will work to develop your goals, and the objectives for meeting them, based on your strengths, assets and preferences. The plan for measuring the progress of our work must include your input and cooperative agreement. The plan will be evaluated and updated throughout the counseling process. It will also include agreements for determining readiness to end therapy and plans to be used as a guide following termination of counseling.

Implementing the plan for counseling can likely result in challenges that reveal how the process of counseling can lead to further clarification of the original concern(s) and many times identify new ones. The process of counseling coincides with the process of life in that each provides no guarantees of comfort or success without deliberate effort. There are few, if any, easy answers or quick cures. Many issues require collaboration with other people and I have found that the majority of concerns brought into the counseling process are somehow relationship oriented.

You have specific rights as a customer of counseling services. Your best interests are to be my primary objective. You may inquire of any issue you have regarding the counseling process at any time. If your concerns are beyond my capacity to effectively address I will inform you immediately. If there are needs identified that I cannot provide, I will help you find the resources to most appropriately continue with the process of meeting your goals.

I regularly work with people with biological, emotional, social and spiritual concerns. I have experience working with people who have difficulties due to normal life events as well as people who suffer from more serious emotional and personality disturbances. To become more familiar with my areas of specialty closely look through this website. Invest time in perusing our services page and feel free to call me personally to discuss your own personal situation to see if we are the best fit.