Counseling
Things do not change; we change.
—Henry David Thoreau

Most of us seek therapy when we realize that our lives are out of balance in some particular way. Meeting one-on-one with a therapist gives you a valuable opportunity to discover and develop more effective responses to your current concerns. You might find counseling helpful if you tend to:
  • Struggle in coping with work or family stress
  • Feel stuck and hopeless about your life
  • Take too much responsibility for others' feelings or actions
  • Avoid saying "no" even when it would be better for you
  • Have difficulty expressing your feelings & needs
  • Use food, alcohol, work or other distractions to cope
  • Experience too much shame or guilt
  • Have difficulty controlling your thoughts & emotions
  • Feel overwhelmed by chronic illness or medical issues
The counseling process encourages you to expand your personal resources and strengths while helping you to identify and transform obstacles to personal growth. It promotes awareness, reflection, and positive change. At its best, counseling supports your learning to live in a more creative and playful way as you develop the ability to meet your needs with greater success.

The first task of counseling is always to form a trusting, emotionally safe relationship with your therapist, and through that process you can begin to:
  • Increase your awareness of yourself & how you cope
  • Challenge self-defeating beliefs about yourself & your relationships
  • Learn new communication & self-care skills
  • Establish appropriate boundaries in relationships with others
  • Experience & let go of emotional pain from the past
To find out how you could benefit from counseling, click here to contact Dina.

Counseling
For Change

  • Emotional Distress
  • Personal Growth
  • Relationship Issues
  • Stress Management
  • Grief & Loss
  • Trauma/Abuse
  • Life Transitions
  • Career Concerns
  • Coping with Illness
  • Depression/Anxiety
  • Sexual Problems
  • Substance Abuse