I'm a grateful and spiritually oriented counselor who loves his work. I've a passion for helping people who have been mistreated, and those who are in a love relationship that is struggling due to life stress and in need of solid relationship education. Not much is life as valuable as the primary relationships of our life, and the discovery of how to find the answers to the big questions of life.
Learning about each other, and for me to understand what your objectives of our time together are. I strive to provide not only empathy for what is troubling you, but offer hope that real change and progress are possible. Along the way, perhaps a few laughs as well! My goal is for my clients to get some practical tidbit of skill that will be helpful to them in every session. Not all counseling matches are ideal, so if you find we are not a match, I'm not insulted. In fact, I'd want you to fire me if you are not getting what you are looking for!
Decades of experience; offering practical skills for self care and self development. I want to give you so much of what you are looking for, that you won't need me for years of treatment.
People seeking tangible skill sets to mitigate their symptoms experience. Couples looking to heal relationship damage; wanting to learn maintenance or enhancement skills. Those who have noted a negative pattern of behaviors and dynamics that they would like to improve upon.
Career-long use of CBT approaches, offering and emphasis on what I call "CBT self-help". I'm not the kind of counselor that sits back and says: "hmmm...how does that make you feel?" I'm very much a solution-focused counselor, striving to transfer skills that mitigate symptoms as efficiently as possible.
Please note that I am not an evangelical-fundamentalist believer; I am progressive in my Christian faith, and have gleaned many wise and beautiful truths and wisdom from other spiritual traditions.