Welcoming Committee
I am a humanistic, person-centered counselor. I believe that you are a whole person who can find the answers you seek for your life. Below are the teachers whose therapies my practice is founded upon.
Sigmund Freud – I draw from Freud’s work on dream analysis. Everything in your dream is a symbol that represents something about you and your life. If Sigmund were here, he would tell me to analyze your dream, but your dreams are about you. Only you can tell me what the people, creatures, activities, feelings, colors, and words represent to you. My role is to help you connect those symbols to the world you walk in while awake.
Carl Jung – Like Jung, I believe that we are all striving to realize our wholeness: our full capacity as human beings. In counseling, we can explore your conscious level (or your direct known experience with life) and your unconscious level (or the unresolved issues that you may not be consciously aware of but that may be acting out in your life). For Jung, dreams represent the unconscious part of us calling to become conscious.
Alfred Adler – you, the person who you are right now, are both the result of your history and who you want to become. Your past (family dynamics, childhood, adolescence) is important, but it is not your prison. You also have valuable assets and talents that have brought you successfully to the present. Your future is being written in each present moment and all of your actions have a purpose and a goal.
Viktor Frankl – Frankl believed that humans retain – no matter what their circumstances – the freedom to choose how they will think and respond to their situations. His experiences in the Nazi concentration camps from 1942 to 1945 confirmed for him that people discover themselves by finding meaning and purpose in their existence.
Carl Rogers – for growth and change to occur, the counselor/client relationship must be founded on person-centered conditions: as your counselor, I must be genuine, have unconditional positive regard for you, as the client, and empathetic understanding for your circumstances, and I must be able to convey this empathy and understanding to you.
Albert Ellis – when your thinking or behavior cause you distress, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy combines person-centered philosophy with cognitive theory. You become aware of your thoughts so you can uncover irrational beliefs you have about yourself and others to help you find where your feelings originate and help you change your behaviors.
Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg – these founders of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy base the therapeutic process on finding what works in your life that makes a difference in resolving the issue that is causing you distress.
Sigmund Freud – I draw from Freud’s work on dream analysis. Everything in your dream is a symbol that represents something about you and your life. If Sigmund were here, he would tell me to analyze your dream, but your dreams are about you. Only you can tell me what the people, creatures, activities, feelings, colors, and words represent to you. My role is to help you connect those symbols to the world you walk in while awake.
Carl Jung – Like Jung, I believe that we are all striving to realize our wholeness: our full capacity as human beings. In counseling, we can explore your conscious level (or your direct known experience with life) and your unconscious level (or the unresolved issues that you may not be consciously aware of but that may be acting out in your life). For Jung, dreams represent the unconscious part of us calling to become conscious.
Alfred Adler – you, the person who you are right now, are both the result of your history and who you want to become. Your past (family dynamics, childhood, adolescence) is important, but it is not your prison. You also have valuable assets and talents that have brought you successfully to the present. Your future is being written in each present moment and all of your actions have a purpose and a goal.
Viktor Frankl – Frankl believed that humans retain – no matter what their circumstances – the freedom to choose how they will think and respond to their situations. His experiences in the Nazi concentration camps from 1942 to 1945 confirmed for him that people discover themselves by finding meaning and purpose in their existence.
Carl Rogers – for growth and change to occur, the counselor/client relationship must be founded on person-centered conditions: as your counselor, I must be genuine, have unconditional positive regard for you, as the client, and empathetic understanding for your circumstances, and I must be able to convey this empathy and understanding to you.
Albert Ellis – when your thinking or behavior cause you distress, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy combines person-centered philosophy with cognitive theory. You become aware of your thoughts so you can uncover irrational beliefs you have about yourself and others to help you find where your feelings originate and help you change your behaviors.
Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg – these founders of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy base the therapeutic process on finding what works in your life that makes a difference in resolving the issue that is causing you distress.
