Gary DuDell, Ph.D., L.M.H.C
Psychotherapist and Training Consultant 

Counseling Services

Individual, Couples, Adolescent & Family Counseling

COUNSELING

Counseling is a powerful resource for decreasing emotional distress, improving interpersonal relationships and life skills, and gaining deeper insight. Research shows that counseling:
  • reduces emotional turmoil
  • improves life skills and insight
  • improves one's productivity at work.
  • enhances self-confidence and self-esteem.
  • makes daily life more enjoyable.
        
I believe that counseling is a partnership between the client and the therapist, and while services focus on specific concerns, a "whole person" approach is embraced.   The counseling process is a valuable opportunity to develop fresh perspectives and learn more creative, satisfying ways to live.

 

My philosophy is two-fold: 

1) It is better to live in freedom than in fear.

2) Individuals have the capacity to overcome patterns of thinking and behaving that overly limit their lives.

 All services are strictly confidential.  Insurance is accepted.

 

Individual Counseling

Counseling is a vehicle for dealing with problems in living. Many people feel troubled, confused, or experience painful emotions for which they seek help.  Often people seek counseling because they have a vague sense that something important is missing, realize that usual styles of coping are ineffective, or are dissatisfied with the direction of their lives. Some people come to recognize that they have established a pattern of living which is harming them or those they care about. I believe that counseling is a partnership between the client and the therapist in which they search together for an understanding of the client as a unique and valuable person.

Although the process of counseling is unique for everyone, there are some general benefits.  These benefits are:

  • increasing your awareness of feelings, beliefs and patterns of behavior
  • developing new, more satisfying approaches to dealing with daily life
  • improving self-esteem and self-image
  • increasing personal and professional effectiveness
  
  • acquiring a better understanding of past influences in your life and how they currently affect you
  • improving  relationship skills
  • enhancing self-authority
  • optimizing creativity at home and work   

Couples Counseling

I offer a supportive place where both partners feel truly heard.  Couples counseling helps define and clarify issues, redirect efforts, and develop more effective relationship skills.  I have a strong commitment to building on the existing strengths and resources of your relationship so that you can move toward a more satisfying mutual experience.  Couples counseling offers the safe atmosphere and, often specific tools, to cultivate a more loving and creative long-term relationship.

Although counseling is a unique experience for each couple, some of the benefits are:

  • understanding and appreciating how individual and family history impact your current relationship  
  • clarifying assumptions and expectations both partners have about each other and the relationship
  • improving communication, conflict-resolution and negotiation styles
  • increasing and enriching intimacy
  
  • setting reasonable, achievable, and mutually acceptable goals for your relationship
  • acquiring more effective parenting skills
  • balancing work, family, relationship, and “alone” time
  • having more fun together  
  • heightening your appreciation of what each of you brings to the relationship
  • increasing mutual regard

Adolescent and Family Counseling

The adolescent years bring new challenges for young people and their families. For over 25 years, I have provided counseling that is sensitive to the unique needs of teens and their parents. Counseling is an opportunity for adolescents to freely express themselves, clarify their thinking, and learn more effective life skills in a non-judgmental atmosphere.  Although counseling for adolescents does not always require family intervention, some form of parental involvement is important. I help families communicate more openly, re-define goals and expectations, and strengthen their emotional connections.

Counseling helps teens and their families:

  • move through developmental milestones more consciously and mindfully
  • establish healthy interpersonal boundaries
  • negotiate age-appropriate expectations, rules, and standards
  
  • keep a sense of perspective about themselves and each other
  • create new ways to emotionally connect with each other
  • establish more effective communication patterns

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