Counseling Process
The struggles that bring us to therapy are often symptoms of deeper unsettledness. To explore the nature of your discontentment, a dynamic alliance must be formed between us: counselor and client.
To address your current issues, we often need to look beneath the surface and reflect on your life to this point. We can then use what we discover to enhance your understanding and help you choose who you want to be, deliberately and consciously.
Your relationships, particularly those formed in your early life, greatly influence the development of your beliefs, ideas, and choices. With this in mind, we can explore the intricacies of your relationships, and their influence on your struggles, to find and address the sources of these struggles. We will explore how your way of relating to others contributes to the nature of your relationships, with the hope of nurturing your awareness, acceptance, and options. By seeking and attending to the source of your distress, we will address the symptoms as well.
“We work on ourselves because we understand that it will make us a better parent, a better friend, a more sensitive and creative human being contributing to our community. Our inner work is an offering to the world. What greater offering can we make?”
Joel and Michelle Levey
My role as a therapist is to create a safe space for you to discover and live out your truest self. Our relationship will be the primary context for change. We will work together to identify fears and obstacles, past and present, that keep you from genuinely relating with others. Your ability to be open and honest with me will greatly enhance the effectiveness of your therapy.
I believe that many issues that bring us to therapy have a physical component. In such cases, consultation with other health care practitioners will be advised. If at any point you have questions or concerns about our relationship or the direction of our work together, please feel free to address these with me.
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Cynthia Benedict Goering MA, LMHCA
