Four decades of experience as a Collaborative Guide for individuals seeking to acquire essential thinking and behavioral resources to accomplish their personal and relationship goals, the emphasis is on what you Can Do. You learn to make the most of what is possible in the present to develop a realistic and personalized plan of action to achieve your desired goals. Learn to overcome the detrimental impact of the past and focus your attention and resourcefulness in moving your life forward to realize what is most important to you today. In a collaborative partnering process, you be guided with a coaching approach to overcome what is problematic, and to develop behavior-based strategies to manage, overcome, and create needed solutions. This is a strength-based and solution-focused approach. Sessions involve discussion, interaction, participation, and an exploration of what is needed to shift your life course in the direction you desire. This discovery process enlists your time, energy and efforts to put into practice possible solutions once the session has ended. Sessions are focused on your priorities. The goal is to tap into what is possible and to encourage you to take the needed steps aimed at changing your life in the direction you most want to go.
The emphasis in sessions is to help you develop needed skills and emotional states for overcoming identified problems. You will learn to become more self-reliant in approaching life's daily challenges. You will be invited to address counter-productive adaptations or habits. Dealing with emotional challenges can be difficult, so you will be encouraged to build the needed social support that helps sustain your mental and emotional well-being.
Thinking about thinking, and learning to identify and implement behaviors that lead to accomplishing what you want. This approach teaches you to identify patterns of behavior that are counter-productive, then by way of practice, develop new thinking and behaviors that lead you to what you want. The effects of the past are addressed by identifying what you are doing in the present that is ineffective. There is no need for labeling and judgment. The goal is to emphasize the change process that makes it possible to move beyond what is ineffective.
I specialize in personalizing interventions for your unique personal psychology. This is thinking outside the box of the conventional approach to utilize your strengths, rather than labeling or categorizing your challenges. You are encouraged to take action steps so that you can learn from your experience. You will be challenged to take steps, even if baby steps, to "adventure" into desired changes by way of discovery.