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When we’re
confused or in distress, and we’ve tried everything we know, we need outside help.
A counselor is an “auxiliary mind.”
He or she brings to bear, on your behalf, a range of knowledge that you simply haven’t had occasion to acquire before, emotional
balance that your distress makes it hard for you to generate by yourself, and an objective eye on your habitual patterns that
you can’t get on your own since you’re stuck inside them.
I call the sort of help I offer “life therapy,” rather than
psychotherapy, for a simple reason: The kinds of distress that bring people for help rarely have to do with internal issues
alone. Life doesn’t divide neatly into what’s inside a person and what’s outside. I use the skills acquired in my psychotherapy
training and honed through many years of psychotherapy practice, but with a different perspective and a more comprehensive
knowledge-base.
Life doesn’t much resemble the twists and turns and fads and fashions and divisions and competition
among academic or professional disciplines. The best help comes from someone whose knowledge ranges across many fields, including
the soundest science, humanities, and practical wisdom. That’s what I do my best to provide.
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