Robin Erickson, PhD, LMHC, CAP Professional Counseling for Individuals and Couples 561-312-5288

 

 What is Counseling: ﷯Simply stated, counseling is any relationship in which one person is helping another person to better understand and solve some problem. Friends and relatives provide a type of counseling, as do clergy, academic advisors, teachers, and many others. Counselors have a broad range of experience in developing "helping relationships" and working with many different situations. In counseling we look for what we find good in ourselves. The good can be used as a model for the things we would like to change. Counseling is a change (growth: healing) process in which people (individuals, groups, couples, and families) are helped to: > express themselves (catharsis) in a safe, supportive, collaborative, non-judgmental climate; > identify, sort-out, clarify their problem laden "stories" (deepened awareness of past & present story alternative future stories) >identify non-helpful patterns (e.g. "crisis" pattern); >learn, where appropriate, more helpful coping skills (e.g. "assertive skills") >identify and achieve goals that are important to them. For those with a humanistic bent, the ultimate goal for counseling is to help people to recognize and accept their own internal worth, i.e., to integrate their learned habits of thinking about themselves (their internal messages and images) and their learned behaviors (feelings, physical responses, & actions) to be congruent with who they really are in their essence (beautiful, loving people). - David Santoro, Ph.D, Psychologist, Cleveland, Ohio.
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