Counseling Philosophy
We are relational beings, created with a need to live life meaningfully with others. And yet one source of great misunderstanding and life-long hurt can be the complex family systems from which we come. The hurts carried may cause one to doubt self, or question if God even exists, or why he would allow hurt and suffering. Maybe the burden is a current, ongoing struggle with someone lived with-, or are in close relationship to. In pain, one can believe negative things of self, or search for a quick fix, or unhealthy ways to fill the void. Yet there is so much more to life, including significant freedom from the negative beliefs about self, and from burdens under which life can bury us. Great joy can come from an awakening to one's story, and the resulting growth in awareness, which can bring freedom, and healing.
Before we can experience healing and restoration from life's burdens, we must find a safe space where trust and confidentiality are held sacred. Somehow that is where healing begins, in a non-judgmental environment, and in being seen and heard, validated and understood, with someone who can hear our story, and remind us that we are a person of dignity.
CS Lewis wrote that our passions are sleepy, that we are like little children who are easily pleased with making mud pies in a slum when we have no idea what it means to have a holiday at the sea. There is always more to life than what we can so easily settle for, and journeying into the deepest part of us can lead us to know our story, and ourselves, and God, and toward healing, and a more abundant life. Counseling can provide that safe place to walk through the struggles of life with another.
Before we can experience healing and restoration from life's burdens, we must find a safe space where trust and confidentiality are held sacred. Somehow that is where healing begins, in a non-judgmental environment, and in being seen and heard, validated and understood, with someone who can hear our story, and remind us that we are a person of dignity.
CS Lewis wrote that our passions are sleepy, that we are like little children who are easily pleased with making mud pies in a slum when we have no idea what it means to have a holiday at the sea. There is always more to life than what we can so easily settle for, and journeying into the deepest part of us can lead us to know our story, and ourselves, and God, and toward healing, and a more abundant life. Counseling can provide that safe place to walk through the struggles of life with another.