Almost There Counseling

When we are unbalanced, we experience anxiety, a lingering sense of dis-ease – an awareness that something just isn’t right in our lives. Sometimes we know exactly what underlies this imbalance in our lives. Sometimes we cannot quite place our finger on the source, we just know that we don’t feel okay. I approach counseling through an existential-humanist lens. We are all humans trying to navigate this brief life – we have fears and joys and traumas and anxieties and all manner of experiences that come to form and shape how we walk through life, for better and for worse. The sense of balance and comfort we feel within our daily lives depends greatly upon the extent of our own self-awareness. I approach each client with an open heart, seeking to meet them wherever they are emotionally, spiritually. In our work together my goal is to help you (re)establish a feeling of balance and harmony within your own life, following whatever path your experiences and personal goals suggest - always with the intent to increase your self-awareness. Through self-awareness we have the opportunity for growth. ------------ I come to counseling later in life. After 20+ years toiling in corporate America, I realize I want to spend what little “productive” time I have left on this earth helping others find peace and stability within their lives. I have walked through tragedy; I have my own relationships with grief and trauma. I am a human, just like you. I am intimately familiar with the sense of near-crushing burdens and responsibilities we often place upon ourselves in effort to simply maintain a precarious sliver of comfort if not security in these modern times. I am here for you. As a trauma-informed counselor, I am interested in working with people struggling with addictions as well as people experiencing depression, anxiety, low self-image and general feelings of being overwhelmed. I also have experience working with clients experiencing difficulties in their primary relationships surrounding intimacy, vulnerability and codependence. Similarly, I have experience working with people struggling with their own relationship to sex, sexuality and sexual identity. I enjoy working with people from all walks of life, with all manner of experiences and from all socioeconomic backgrounds.