Socrates said it best when speaking about change. The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

 

Our Mission at Guidance Motivational Counseling is to create change. Generating change for each individual that is struggling in an area that they feel needs to be changed is our Counseling mission. Change is inevitable, with Guidance and Motivation everyone can have a successful transition to change.

 

We believe that individuals change in counseling once they have accepted that they are open to change. With the right tools and adequate information to assist them getting from a contemplation stage to an active stage can be growth that is needed for any individual to move to a maintenance stage of getting to a norm that they desire. 

 

The primary factors that we build on are having each individual understand they don’t have to go through it alone. The universal principles that apply in our counseling approach are respect for autonomy, justice, beneficence, non-maleficence, and fidelity. With these principles a healthy counseling relationship is built. The conceptual framework that we use is Motivational Counseling.

 

The key variables that affect the outcome with motivational counseling are the rapport the clinician has with their client with expressing empathy and being goal directed. At Guidance Motivational Counseling we believe in supporting self-efficacy and optimism.