Individual Counseling
LIFE CAN BE DIFFICULT
Are you facing any of these issues?
- Stress, irritability, anxiety, depression
- Challenging life circumstances
- Difficulty maintaining healthy relationships
- Trouble setting limits with other people
- Questions about what might come next in your life…
Individual counseling can help you explore and resolve a wide variety of personal problems. Individual counseling is confidential collaboration between a professional counselor and a willing client. If you are ready to look closely at some of the personal issues that cause you problems and discover new solutions, email or call to discuss your situation and schedule an appointment. 503-224-0114
The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice –
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do –
determined to save
the only life you could save.
Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems
Beacon Press, 1992