There are several ways you can increase the benefits of our work:

• Challenge yourself to talk about the things you find hardest to discuss.  What you want to discuss least, is probably what we need to discuss most.
• Honesty with me and yourself, is essential. Being dishonest in counseling is like asking a surgeon to operate wearing a blindfold.
• Do the homework assignments.  Making change in your thoughts, feelings or behavior, requires practice outside of our session.
• Set realistic and measurable goals.  Change is a process that takes time.
• Preparing for your session will allow you to optimize your results and our time together.  Ask yourself:  what do I want to get out of our time together today?
• Commit to regular sessions until you feel you are progressing.

Discuss with me when you feel the need to take a break from counseling, or terminate.  It is my goal to establish a long term relationship with you, so that as you go through life, and feel a need for additional help along the way, you can call me as you need me.

When you learn to end things well with me, this translates to healthier endings with other areas of your life.