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Counseling
What to Expect in Session
What to Expect in Session
During the intake consultation, we will review your intake paperwork to decide if we are a good fit for working together. From this initial session, a treatment plan will be created and reviewed using your goals for counseling. I will help you clarify your goals and make sure I clearly see and understand you.
Some people wish for long-term counseling, while others may only need a few sessions. This will be discussed at the intake and re-evaluated periodically.
As counseling proceeds, you're the best at identifying the areas you want and need to work on during session. I take on a collaborative role to help guide the process, meeting you where you're at emotionally or cognitively. I don't approach a session with a hard-set agenda in mind, allowing you to go where you need to go.
Counseling Theory
Counseling Theory
I work primarily from an existential approach. The concepts from this approach are useful in identifying the roots of depression, anxiety, or other identified concerns.
The concepts of existential theory include:
Self awareness - we know our motivations and what influences us
Freedom and responsibility - we have the freedom to take action to change our lives
Identity and relationship to others - we listen to ourselves and don't allow others to define us, but we do seek out healthy relationships
Meaning - we evaluate and stay true to our own value systems, and evaluate the direction of our life
Conditions of living - we are willing to sit through discomfort to enact change in our life
Awareness of death and nonbeing - we learn to live our lives fully and authentically
The existential concepts can be applied to other theories. This lets us work together, using your goals, to find a counseling approach that we can be the most successful with.
While this is my primary theory, I am trained and educated in use of other theories. I encourage your input in what works best for you.
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