My name is Graham Maxey. I have been a Licensed Professional Counselor since 1983, after graduating from the University of Houston/Clear Lake with a Master of Arts in Behavioral Science. I had noticed for many years that the primary problems people experienced in life were mainly due to living in a space of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that were "too small" to accommodate their well-being or their enjoyment in living. My goal as a counselor has always been to help clients "widen" the spaces they live in and let them have fuller access to all that their lives actually can provide for them.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
Our first session will focus on who you are, what you want from our time together, what your strengths are, and what are the obstacles you feel you need to overcome. If you come as the result of a loss of a loved one, our first session will be about you telling me about who this loved one was, and the details of their passing. If you are part of a couple, we will spend the first session not just hearing about the current difficulties in the relationship, but about some of the successes in your history together. In all cases, we will look for plans to move towards the goals that we agree to be the focus of our work together.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My strong suit as a clinician is my experience over forty years of listening to, learning from, and working with a wide range of people. I have seen what works for people dealing with problems, what doesn't work so well, and I know how to structure ways of efficiently helping clients get to a better place in their living. I'm very aware that the relationship I may have with a client is the greatest predictor of whether what I have learned and experience will be of help to them. That is always a key focus for me.
About Graham Maxey
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1304 W Abram St, Arlington, TX 76013, suite #200Appointments
Virtual & in-personMy treatment methods
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a psychophysiological treatment tool that is effective and efficient in helping trauma, anxiety and phobias, as well as grief and loss. I have been using this method since 2006.
Grief Therapy
Recovering from grief and loss depends upon support for the notice and expression of all the feelings that come from these experiences, and help in integrating the loss into the larger life story, as well as establishing and on-going relationship of some kind with the lost person (pet), or meaning. I have been helping clients deal with grief and loss for the past 41 years.
Couples Counseling
There are a few key elements common to any stable and intimate relationship. Knowing what these are, and establishing a cognitive and behavioral framework for improving these elements is what I have specialized in since I began working with couples many decades ago. In couples counseling we establish where these elements are lacking, how they keep being a problem, and work out a concrete course for improving on them.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Understanding and challenging recurring or habitual negative thought patterns that come up in response to certain life experiences is the Rational Emotive Therapy approach to unlocking the Feeling/Thinking / Behavior cycle that often prevents any progress towards more fulfilling and positive perception ones life experiences. I have found RET very useful over the course of my career.
Transpersonal
Even though it is not spoken of often in our society, a large portion of the population experiences things like after death communication, what is called shared death experiences, near death experiences and spiritually transformative events. These important events are often difficult for people to relate to others, and sometimes doing so leads to problems or losses in important relationships. My experience with these has been that if they are appropriately validated and interpreted they are a major source of life affirming emotional and spiritual growth. These experiences are welcome to be shared in my counseling sessions.