To my clients

It may be helpful to tell you how I work as a therapist. As a therapist, I see my work as facilitating your psychological well-being, by helping you to solve the problem or dilemma that may have made you feel stuck and demoralized.

The first thing you need to know is that the goal of the therapist is to help you help yourself. The therapist's greatest pleasure and reward is to see you go back to the business of life more confident of your ability to take care of your problems, trusting your judgment and intuition.

Therapy should be helpful and efficient, and thus, as brief and as unintrusive as possible to your normal life. The therapist is not the healer. You are! The therapists' job is to activate and facilitate your own healing mechanism and your personal agency.

The therapist will learn about you by listening very carefully to everything you say and asking questions to find out what got you stuck. Most important, the therapist will search with you for ways to get you unstuck and to facilitate the necessary shift or change.

Although the therapist will be available and be by your side whenever and as long as necessary, your job is to make the therapist obsolete as soon as possible. End therapy as soon as you feel that the problem is solved or that you can manage on your own.

You are here because you want to stop the pain and regain hope. Talk with your therapist about joys as much as sorrow, about solutions as much as problems. Therapy is not a place only to complain and blame. You may have come to therapy because you feel helpless. Do not make therapy a place to do more of the same things that made you feel badly. Therapy is a place to change, take charge, regain hope, and solve problems.

The Consulting for Solutions Group (CSG)
is a clinical and consulting clinic that provides therapeutic services to children, adolescents, adults, couples and families. In addition, the CSG clinic provides group programs in the areas of anger management, relationship enhancement, pre-marital counseling, grief and loss as well as critical incident debriefings.