Have you ever wondered if counseling is for you? The following are four situations when counseling may help.

Sometimes people are confused about counseling and how it relates to other mental health professions. The following article points out some of the distinctions.

It should come as no surprise that “telling our story” is very powerful. In counseling and psychotherapy we sometimes use the term “narrative.” With this thought, I decided to take a stroll through some of my books, including clinical, self-help, and literature, to see how others have thought of or used narrative.

In an earlier article I describe the definition of Wisdom as “seeing through illusion.” It is interesting that in Anxiety Disorders and Phobias: A cognitive perspective (1985) Aaron Beck talks about “major maladaptive assumptions” that people make and use to understand the world around them. When over-used these maladaptive-assumptions become a client’s “major concern” [...]