Counseling
Counseling Approach
People seek counseling for a variety of reasons: personal problems, child concerns, parenting and marital challenges, not to mention struggles with depression, anxiety, or addiction. However, another reason people reach out for help is because they are looking for someone to understand them and the challenges they face. They want someone who listens empathically, conveys an understanding and offers solutions to their problems.
Compassionate & Professional
Don takes a compassionate and professional approach in counseling, adhering to evidenced-based practices that work. His aim is to help his clients gain insight, identify strengths, and develop skills to improve the quality of their lives. Don is highly relational, instinctive, practical, and collaborative. His authentic demeanor is disarming and use of humor helps his clients keep things in perspective.
Communication Specialist
Don’s specialty as a relational communication specialist enables him to understand and relate different points of view in couple and/or family conflict. His ability to maintain neutrality creates safety and trust, the necessary elements to transform negative relationship patterns into positive connections.
Conflict Management
As a systems counselor, Don is an expert in identifying how relational patterns develop and are maintained to prevent problems from being resolved. He calls it “the dance” couples or families that are stuck doing over and over. Here is where Don is most helpful to clients because he is able to help them learn a new dance. By creating a different pattern of interaction based on respect, individuals in a family learn how to communicate well, manage conflict, and increase the quality of their relationships.
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