True Choice: A Counseling Program

Developed in-house, and client-tested-to help you succeed, powerfully.

  For targeted work on challenging and overcoming old patterns of thinking and behavior, habits, cravings, or any other experience of “stuckness” that you are ready to SHIFT AWAY from.  When you want to STOP something unhealthy or unwanted, that is hampering your everyday life, True Choice counseling is a sound approach.

Equally, and when you are ready, the process includes a SHIFT TOWARD a new way of being in your life.  When you want to START or BECOME CONSISTENT in moving toward what matters most, and to build healthy, new routines—True Choice is there for you.

Connect with your truth, to bring your daily life into alignment with what’s most important to you.

True Choice is about understanding:  getting down to the root causes, experiencing your why, and learning how unwanted, painful patterns of behavior and habits formed.  It’s about making the choices to make actions automatic, and second nature.  This counseling work offers:

• Highly effective, science-backed strategies for shifting old patterns of behavior and habit change
• Practices that work, for actions you want to become automatic
• Support, gentle accountability, and guidance

There are many ways that unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior show up.  Ruminating about the past, being gripped with regret, or dwelling on painful hurts and failures.  Being overly future-oriented, excessively worrying, or anticipating failure.  Being harshly self-critical, or over-identifying with a limiting or untrue label.  Becoming stuck in ‘reason-giving’ to the point of feeling paralyzed—for example, “I’m too shy,” or “It’s pointless…”  Feeling bound by strict rules, like “I can only eat ________ foods” or “I must do ________ in order to ________.”

Many people feel stuck and have goals of stopping old unwanted, painful patterns and starting new behaviors.  Clients in True Choice have overcome this stuckness and achieved their goals:

• Examples of STOPPING:  In True Choice, clients have set and met goals to leave an unworkable, stressful job; stopped spending excessive time online; quit mindless eating that had led to unhealthy weight gain. They have stopped getting in their own way with distraction, procrastination, and avoidance.
• Examples of STARTING:  As they have succeeded in stopping painful or unhealthy patterns, many True Choice clients have wanted to set and meet goals to start new habits: Starting new health practices, like swimming (early in the morning) and running (and completing a marathon); adopting new habits to foster their creativity, like a daily writing practice (writing a children’s book and got it published). Many clients have learned new stress reduction approaches, like to meditating; walking; daily journaling; and mindfulness practices through True Choice. 

A note about willpower…  Though there is a role played by “willpower” (or self-discipline), in changing our behavior, this is not the best approach—because it is an unreliable inner resource, and it’s depleted daily.  So we take a different and more compassionate approach in True Choice, for sustainable, lasting change.
 

True Choice FAQ

What is included? 

7 hours, spanning up to 3 months.   AND there is more offered that is strategic to our work, over this period:  I will be available to you between our sessions, by email.  Resources, tools, and information included, too.

Why is the series this length?

​The intention is that it’s to be completed over about 90 days, to allow you to integrate the changes you make for permanent success.  This design has been found in my work with clients to be most effective and supportive.

How often do we meet?

Weekly to biweekly sessions.  This meeting schedule was found to be powerful and effective in supporting clients’ change efforts.

What is the cost, and are payments accepted?

INVESTMENT = $840.  Yes, I am happy to help you set up a payment plan.