Words and Reality

Along the winding road of my career – first as a pastoral counselor, then as a community counselor, and now as a career counselor working with college students – I have developed a particular skill of deep listening that I call “listening in.” Of course, counselors of all types need to listen to their clients,Continue reading “Words and Reality”

Who Do You Think You Are?

The modern paradigm of medical and mental health has a built-in bias for diagnosis, due in large part to its historical interest in isolating and treating pathology of various kinds in the body and mind. A consequence of this bias is that while we can zero in on what’s wrong or not working properly, ourContinue reading “Who Do You Think You Are?”