ABOUT US
Facilitating a process where you progress toward healing and self-acceptance, to ultimately grow and thrive in a supportive environment.
Our Goal
The goal of Chambless Counseling is to help people navigate through difficulties in their life and relationships while providing a safe place to heal, explore, develop insight, practice healthy coping tools, and integrate and take responsibility for their changes. We facilitate a process where the client progresses towards healing and self-acceptance, and to ultimately grow and thrive in a supportive environment. Although a therapist is not a cure-all, a parent, a friend, or a miracle worker, we will meet you each step of the way in your therapy process with accountability, compassion and empathy.
Our Style
The style of Chambless Counseling is collaborative, honest, challenging, and direct with solid boundaries and empathy. We reflect, assist, encourage, and point out incongruent patterns around actions and words. We will not work harder than our clients or accept responsibility for your choices or consequences. We respect our client’s decisions, and do not advise or direct our clients, as we believe that you are the expert in your own life and are fully capable of creating the life that you want with support and tools.
Our therapeutic Plan and Beliefs
Chambless Counseling formulates the therapeutic plan collaboratively with clients based on each client’s needs, their presenting problems, and the goals they wish to achieve. We use a combination of existential, cognitive behavioral, and client-centered therapy with most clients. We believe that each client has the potential for healing and change and is responsible for their choices and changes, and for meeting their therapy goals – we do not make guarantees for healing.
Existential psychotherapy is based on the philosophical belief that human beings are fully equipped to create one's own meaning and exercising one's freedom to choose. Chambless Counseling encourages clients to face life's anxieties and to start making his or her own decisions while reflecting on consequences and moving away from fear-based thinking. We will emphasize that along with having the freedom to carve out meaning comes the need to take full responsibility and accountability for the consequences of one's decisions.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT) Therapy stresses the role of thinking patterns in how we feel and what we do. It is based on the belief that our thoughts, rather than people or outside events, cause our negative feelings. Chambless Counseling assists the client in identifying, testing the reality of, and correcting dysfunctional beliefs underlying his or her thinking – uncovering the ‘root to the fruit’ so to speak. Chambless Counseling then helps the client modify those thoughts and the behaviors that flow from them. CBT is a structured collaboration between therapist and client and often calls for homework assignments.