I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor with training and experience in diagnosing and treating emotional problems. Counseling is a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals.

The primary objectives of counseling are identification, diagnosis, and treatment of mental and nervous disorders. The goals of counseling include alleviating symptoms, understanding the underlying dynamics which create symptoms, changing dysfunctional behaviors, which are the result of these disorders, and developing new strategies for successfully coping with the psychological challenges.

Counseling clients are often emotionally vulnerable. This vulnerability is increased by the expectation that they will discuss very intimate personal data and expose feelings about themselves about which they are understandably sensitive. The past life experiences of counseling patients have often made trust challenging to achieve. These factors give counselors hugely disproportionate power that creates a fiduciary responsibility to protect the safety of their clients and to “above all else, do no harm.” I can understand that deciding whether to go for counseling or coaching can be a complex decision. Please feel free to contact me for a free consultation.

Counseling vs. Coaching
While there are some similarities between coaching and counseling, they are very different activities, and the Client must understand the differences between them. Counseling is a healthcare service and is usually reimbursable through health insurance policies. This is not true for coaching.
Both coaching and counseling utilize knowledge of human behavior, motivation and behavioral change, and interactive counseling techniques. The major differences are in the goals, focus, and level of professional responsibility.

Approach to Counseling
Most research on counseling outcomes indicates that the quality of the therapeutic relationship is most closely correlated with therapeutic progress. Therefore, my biggest strength and focus are my ability to connect and fully understand the struggles my clients face.

Additionally, I utilize a holistic approach that includes mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral techniques, depth psychology, positive psychology, and Existential-Humanistic theoretical orientations. These are combined with Eastern Philosophy principles (e.g., mindfulness and meditation) and quantum mechanics principles (e.g., non-locality, holographic universe, complementarity, uncertainty, and wavefunction collapse) when working with counseling clients.

Counseling is an active verb and requires work to accomplish goals and objectives set as a part of counseling. Most of the work is done between the counseling sessions. I usually ask my clients to do some homework, journaling, and other activities, as they would relate to the treatment plan. The interventions I will be using would be grounded in theory and research. Usually, I educate my clients about the treatment and conditions, so that clients can be active participants in their treatment. Clients have every right to have a rationale behind all the interventions used in counseling. With my humanistic view of life, I am a very optimistic person. I work with clients with the same optimism towards growth and development; however, clients may define them.

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