Counseling is a process of learning and practicing emotional skills, using specific situations in your life as the training ground. The purpose of counseling is to gain greater insight and self-understanding, to increase interpersonal skills, to clarify your personal values, to learn how to claim more self-responsibility while simultaneously disowning the responsibility of others, and to learn more effective strategies for creating the life you truly want.

Our goal is to train you in the emotional skills needed to understand yourself, so you can learn to create a life that is harmonious for you in every facet.

Anyone who has never had any emotional training. This includes nearly everyone.

Emotions are an essential aspect of who we are, in the same vein as our other aspects of being: the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects. We encourage our clients to feel and deal with all of their emotions. We do not regard some emotions as good or bad. All emotions have the potential to open up more of our understanding of ourselves. With greater skill in the emotion aspect, you can understand why you make the choices you make, explore your experience, and learn to make choices in a deliberate, responsible, purposeful manner.

Few people have received the training in emotional skills needed to address and effectively deal with the issues which arise with their spouses. Relationship therapy at BEing There Counseling is an educational process that trains you in effectively identifying and exploring your emotional experience, digging under the surface to shed light on the deeper sources and causes of your experience, and discovering truthful and harmonious means to create connection and build intimacy with your partner.

1. Yes, you can find them listed on the Publications page of our website. The emotional skills taught at BEing There Counseling are explained in Feeling Your Way Along by Stephen BE with Donna BE.
2. Our therapists regularly publish short videos and articles on various therapeutic topics on the Start Learning page of our website.
Note: Read anything a prospective therapist has written for greater clarity. If they have not written, ask why not? But do not make this an absolute prerequisite. Not all counselors are writers, and should not be expected to be so when they are not. But often a counselor has not written because they do not feel they have anything worthy to say. This would probably not be your best choice.

We believe that medications are helpful and necessary for some people. It is through decades of experience in a variety of in-patient and outpatient facilities that we have learned when pronounced symptoms require medical intervention. We do everything possible to: (1) respect the wishes of the client in regard to medications; (2) avoid the use of medications unless absolutely necessary; (3) refer a client to either the physician of their choosing or one with whom we have developed a working relationship; and (4) consult with the physician throughout the period of treatment. Our goal is always to help you embrace your experience, deal with the issues present, and learn the lessons embedded within. If medications can help this process, then they are seen as a useful tool. If they interfere in this process, then we will work with the prescribing physician toward a reduction or termination of pharmaceutical treatment.

We charge $220 per hour for individual and couples counseling sessions, prorated for tenths of an hour, for scheduled therapy. For those who have received sufficient training in dealing with emotional issues and are ready to graduate to the next level of development, we offer group therapy sessions at $66 per hour.

We require payment at the time of service. We provide you with the paperwork needed to claim reimbursement from your insurance company.

We can usually see you within two weeks, sometimes sooner.

Hopefully these fundamental questions and our answers will help you in your process. We’d be happy to speak with you to answer the other questions you may have, so feel free to call our office when the time is right. You can reach us at (970) 245-6502.