A New Beginning
Welcome to the redesign of New Perspective Counseling website. We are grateful to Aaron Jackson who has volunteered his time and expertise to get this great new look. Aaron is on the board of directors with New Perspective Counseling and his input to our agency is invaluable. Please check out the entire website which highlights our services, locations, resources and contact information.
Our initial goal for this new website is to post our comments at least one time per week. Additionally, our themes will change so as not to bore you to death on one topic. We hope these comments will be informative and pertinent to daily living.
To get us started, let’s talk about the importance of change. Change is what counseling is all about. Counseling is not the counselor changing the client rather it is about the counseling process being a facilitator to change. The degree to which counseling is successful is the degree to which the client works on the issues in between the sessions. In the final analysis there is only one person we can change and that is ourselves.
One thing we can all agree on, I’m sure, is that change is difficult. We as human beings are comfortable with that which is familiar to us. We, like the thermostat on the wall, seek to always return to a set point. Sometimes, however, circumstances call for a change-sometimes major, sometimes just a minor course adjustment. The important thing is that our changes are healthy for us and for those around us.
I leave you with a thought from a book I’m reading which highlights the contributions of the founding fathers of America. The book is Revolutionary Characters by Gordon Wood. In it he points out that of all the founding fathers Benjamin Franklin was the oldest. He was 70 years old in 1776 and had been a loyal British subject all his life. Change must have been challenging for him. Yet at 70 years old he CHANGED! Be encouraged today, it’s never to late to change!