Inklein Transformative Counseling Services

Alerted by polls showing profound distress in every sector of society, my scope of practice is dedicated to freeing clients from dissatisfaction - the equivalent of a midlife crisis -  imprisoned in the stories they tell themselves - not for the sake of the past but for the sake of the future.

Its proven success is twofold – an inquisitive encounter for co-creation between counselor and client, and a dialogical encounter for transformative, applied-philosophical disclosure and  alternatives.

Sessions refocus attention from the mere prose of every day life, to exceptional values and virtues that prize the poetry of self-discovery, forgiveness, imagination, vitality, and being with others in the world.

Meaning surfaces in the decisions we make – We interrupt our routine, what in France is called the "right to disconnect," to summon the underlife of concern for others in stressful situations; we carve out time from our schedules to volunteer and donate whenever we can. Or we find ourselves touched by "aha" moments. Bernard Hermann's evocative musical score "Scène d'amour" from Hitchcock's Vertigo is one example; another is an offhand remark from the 1945 movie The Scarlet Letter  after the protagonist, played by Edward G. Robinson, hears a singing bird:  "That's just how I feel." Because these sounds strike a chord within us, the moment becomes momentous. Decisions and experiences like these should, however, be more than occasional. They should define our decisions and experiences. They should define us.

Dialogue is what makes transformative counseling philosophical: Based on the Socratic method, it is the practice of counselor-client collaboration in a reciprocal search for understanding and self-realization.