Perhaps you are considering psychotherapy (also called counseling), either for yourself or for a friend or relative. Maybe this is a first time exploration or an interest in resuming work done in the past. Perhaps you are eager to start this process, or a bit uncertain as to what this therapy stuff is all about.
Whatever the case, my aim within these pages is to provide a sense of who I am and how I approach therapy. I hope it will help you form a basic impression of me and help you assess whether or not I might be a good match for you in this endeavor. I work with adults, either individually or as couples, and have been doing so since 1981.
Whatever the case, my aim within these pages is to provide a sense of who I am and how I approach therapy. I hope it will help you form a basic impression of me and help you assess whether or not I might be a good match for you in this endeavor. I work with adults, either individually or as couples, and have been doing so since 1981.
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I have been reading about, thinking about and discussing therapy pretty much every day for the past 30 years and have sat with 1,000 or so clients in this process. Still, I find it almost impossible to generalize about the practice of psychotherapy. If you were to take one hour each week to sit and contemplate your life, you would likely notice some beneficial results.
We all develop habits that are neither the best for our own psychological well-being nor for the well-being of those around us. There's no shame in that, it's unavoidable. Couples naturally develop habitual ways of communicating/not communicating. By and large, the most problematic of the habits are private, rarely seen by others, and so they develop without the benefit of external feedback.
The terms are used more or less interchangeably and both can have unfortunate and misleading implications. The root "therapy", for instance, is often associated with medical processes, conjuring up images of disease or injury. Counseling (to me, at any rate) implies at least some advice-giving from an expert.
Though my office address is 1829 E. Franklin St. Suite 1200-D, Chapel Hill NC 27514, the office is not actually on Franklin Street and Google Maps will definitely lead you slightly astray. From Chapel Hill: Take 15-501 North toward Durham. After the merge of 15-501 and Franklin St. get in the second to left lane and make the U-turn toward Erwin Road.
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