Change is scary, whether you are in the grocery store looking at a different brand of ketchup, looking to change your morning routine, or looking to manage your emotions differently. 

Change tends to make things more intense, sloppy, and exciting. 

That’s right, exciting. 

Sometimes we make changes to “spice it up” and other times we change so that we can heal. 

Regardless of the changes you and/or your family are facing, change is one of the main reasons why counseling exists: to help you change.

We don’t talk about how other people need to change. We talk about your change. And that is sometimes scary, intense, and sloppy… at first. 

Last summer I had the opportunity to go white-water rafting with my family and an Australian woman named Cheryl and we all thought we were going to die either by rapids or by the ice-cold water. But the guide helped us see the challenge as excitement as opposed to stressful. 

Counseling is a similar process, where I can support you and guide you to see change as exciting because you are engaging, exploring, and learning about yourself and others in your change process. 

That is exciting to me as a counselor because I am along with you in your change… in all its excitement.

PS: Cheryl from Australia does not know I am writing about our shared experience last summer, but I think she will be ok with it.  

Too Long/Didn’t Read: People come to counseling to change. You can choose to see change as exciting versus scary, just as having a tour guide in a white-water rafting trip helps make the rapids less scary and more exciting.  

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