Dallas Counseling for Anger, Depression, Anxiety and Domestic Violence
My role as a psychotherapist is to help people work through problems that are interfering with their daily lives. I can aid you in assessing your strengths, developing your optimal potential, clarifying your current problems, and assisting you in changing self-defeating behaviors and in making positive choices. Counseling treatment is unique for each client and depends on your needs and goals. The philosophy that guides my practice is the unwavering belief that people have a limitless potential to heal and grow, and it is my goal to help you recognize and realize your abilities. Positive change occurs through the collaborative relationship between counselor and client.
My Dallas counseling office environment is client-centered, warm, accepting, and encouraging. I believe this climate provides the opportunity for clients to be creative, intelligent, and able to explore personal issues that are sometimes difficult to face. Counseling is a reciprocal relationship that promotes empathy, investigation, questions, education, and insight.
Please call my office and speak with me directly about counseling and the benefits and value it can add to your life. I look forward to exploring this journey called life with each individual.
Dallas Counseling Information
The reasons for seeking a therapist vary widely and the decision to participate in counseling is an important one. Having a better understanding of what to expect from counseling can increase your comfort levels. The beginning stages of counseling focuses on identifying the concerns that led you to counseling and then coming together to decide which services are appropriate. Some active options for dealing with the presenting problem range from educational reading, referrals to workshops, psychiatric consultation, and evaluating cognitive distortions.
I have discovered that many individuals dropout of counseling because they do not feel a connection with the counselor or the client feels like no progress is being made. We will work as a team to avoid these pitfalls by developing a treatment plan that will be measured every week, testing the client and therapist connection with the Working Alliance Inventory, and evaluating the impact of each out of session assignment.
Areas of Specialty
I treat adults (not children) using cognitive and behavioral methods that have clear scientific support of their effectiveness and efficiency. These techniques do not involve extensive exploration of a client's childhood or unconscious mind. Instead, my methods are active, directive, and educative; I aim at solving the problems the client faces in the present.
Counseling Success Tips
- Attend scheduled sessions.
- Be specific about the concerns that led to your decision to seek counseling.
- Establish with your counselor desired goals and outcomes to be achieved in counseling.
- Discuss your progress and modify your goals if necessary.
- Participate actively and be as open and honest as possible.
- Prepare for your sessions.
- Tell your counselor if you don't think you're being helped.