What do you do?
I’m a
counselor. I work with adults and the occasional older adolescent seeking
support for mental health, emotional and personal transformation difficulties. I
generally work with one person at a time, but also see couples or other numbers
of intimately connected people together at times.
Do you take
insurance?
I don’t.
And I likely won’t in the future either. I like being able to practice with as
few pieces of red tape to deal with as possible. My focus is on individualized
work that evolves organically between myself and my client. I do, however,
offer my clients a nicely accessible sliding scale. It is important to me that
my services not be part of the problem of mental health being a classist
system. Everyone deserves to be able to seek support and find it.
What type of
counseling do you do?
My work with clients tends
to be flavored like Jungian work, or it’s more modern equivalent of Archetypal/Depth
work. I am interested in getting to the why’s of what’s going on. Usually that
happens through playing with images seen in dreams and what books/movies/tv/
music/video games a client is drawn to. Together we face a client’s Shadow,
their Inner Child, Masculine and Feminine, or Inner Parents, for example. We
touch on issues of Soul through personal ritual and journeys of personal
transformation.
Do you work with….(insert
mental health concern of your choice here)?
I have yet to find a
diagnosis or label that I wouldn’t be willing to work with. The theoretical
stance I come from is widely applicable. What I *don’t* do, however, is offer
quick solutions for concrete/specific problems. If you’re looking for someone
to give you quick tools to stop smoking or get past a phobia or communicate an
important truth to your spouse, then I am likely not the counselor for you. I’d
want to help you dive into what you are covering up with your addictive
behavior, or what your specific phobia is telling you about your Soul life, or
help you be more comfortable with owning and expressing your Truth in general.
What do you
specialize in?
The bottom line for me is
always that the client is the expert in themselves. There are things that I
very much enjoy working with and have developed a particular level of expertise
in. For example, Gender. Many of my clients are unique in their expression of
gender. They likely reject the binary of male/female, and I understand and
agree with getting beyond that binary. Then there’s Shame. So many people feel
that there’s something about them that is just unacceptable. They hide and deny
and avoid sharing it with people, and it gets in the way of intimacy and
confidence for them. Many times that Shame is centered around something related
to Sexuality. For some it’s orientations other than straight. For others, it’s
being into the world of BDSM, or being non-monogamous. They are deeply drawn to
something other than what they see portrayed as the culturally approved
lifestyle, and thus feel like they are flawed. Another specialty is dealing
with wounds received through religion, or the search for one’s uniquely
authentic spiritual path.
Want to know more? Call me and ask!
www.alternaterootscounseling.com
303-522-8839
www.alternaterootscounseling.com
303-522-8839
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