We set our relationship in motion by welcoming your call with the sound of one of our own voices, seven days a week, late into the evening. Problems, distressing situations, and disrupting emotions have a way of not showing up on schedule and we are here to help you meet them head on. If you happen to reach our voice mail, we will call you back promptly, offering privacy, confidentiality, and that most elusive therapeutic ingredient of all, time to talk.

When we personally take your first call, you will experience how it feels to become involved with us. If you never make further contact, this interaction will stand by itself.

We understand that your life can present difficulties, deep struggles, upheavals, and losses that you cannot either alter or control. Problems that hurt and overwhelm you and/or those you love.

Our successful practice of easing our clients’ way through troubling transitions over the years will serve you well. For example, we know that sometimes the first step of asking for the help of a therapist can overpower the best of intentions.

This is why we answer our own phones. We are prepared to give the time and attention you need before making an appointment.

Call us, we are here for you. You are no longer alone.

Moving Forward

When you called to schedule this appointment you had one of us, who will now become your therapist, pay expert attention to you. Back then you were far more than just “one more person” on the other end of the phone. Then and now you are someone different from all others, with your own story to tell, with distinct strengths, personal traits, emotions, areas within your life that are right and areas that are going wrong, circumstances where you possess control and others where you do not. Your therapist will comprehend this and more.

When you enter into this relationship you will experience what it feels like to have the full attention of someone who knows that you stand at a crossroads. Your turning point contains new choices, hope, opportunities, along with distress, confusion doubts, anxiety and perhaps intense even frightening emotions. As your counselor stands with you, in relationship with you, you will come to know what it feels like to be supported and understood. You will begin to move forward, in your own way, at your own pace. You will speak freely, knowing that you are next to someone who is willing, able, and available to respond to what you need.

As you and your therapist encounter these beginning decisive moments, you will face them together. Initial goals will be defined, priorities clarified, approaches explained; all these will evolve, and mutually emerge to be responsive to you and your unique personality and set of circumstances. When you complete your first meeting, you will emerge with a better control of yourself, the problems and the issues you discussed, and will become more at ease with becoming a client. You will also leave these decisive moments with the awareness that your problem holds more clarity than you originally thought. You may even leave that day with the beginning of a solution in mind.

As you move forward, you will feel more connected in relationship to your new therapist, more optimistic, as your world shifts into focus. You are not in the world all by yourself. As you advance, you will find yourself able to face struggles that once immobilized you. Your therapist will help you work through these and related difficulties as you draw upon your resources and develop your potential. You will start to see the light at the end of the tunnel as the road propels you forward.

This is how you grow, resolve and expand, change and transform. You are no longer alone.