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As a mental health counselor, I spent more than a decade working with individuals, groups, and organizations in identifying and overcoming barriers to participating fully in their lives and missions. Through this experience, I learned that while some presentations fit squarely in a clincical model, the discomfort associated with a lack of fulfillment is very often not a diagnosable psychological malady, but rather a gift that affords us the opportunity to engage in forward motion while aligning our values and actions. Without this engagement, and the immense amount of learning about ourselves and others that accompanies it, we often fail to thrive.

The most rewarding work I do is bearing witness to the persistent effort  of others as they work to create the relationships, the careers, and the daily experience that support their definition of a meaningful existence. My role as a counselor is to utilize my objective perspective to assist clients to identify, engage, and act upon the signs of life disengagement rather than resist them.

In this journey, I seek to capitalize on clients’ strengths by working together to identify cognitive-behavioral strategies and existential frameworks that complement an individual’s natural learning style. While the clinical counseling experience has much language and rituals associated with the process, in the end it really is just a partnership in learning. And like all learning curves, the process can be exciting, hard, interesting, and confusing all at the same time. But most often, as in life, the results almost always justify the effort of learning new skills.