What do we use as a guide when all our choices seem to have a pretty big downside? Sometimes it's like that. We've gotten ourselves in some pickle, or life has provided a pickle, from which there seems no escape without pain, pain for us or pain for others. Mostly, we spin our wheels searching for that elusive pain free path, the one that magically solves [...]

It may sound odd to say, since embracing and facilitating change is what counseling is all about, but I find I'm still inspired and a little bit in awe of it when a person makes a profound change. I was having a final ending session with someone this week and I was struck by the fact that this person was different than the one I'd met [...]