CONSULTING

The way I approach consulting is not as an expert might. It is the same way I approach counselling or coaching – it is a process dialogue that enables the client to figure out their own problems with an outside perspective assisting in the process. It is not necessary for me to have had all the problems my counselling clients have in order to help them because my help is not in offering advice on the best way to go. My help is in bringing about the answers one might have within themselves, or at least the abilities a person or group has to solve their own problems.

What can become difficult when managing a company, small business, or family business, is not being able to see the forest for the trees. When we are immersed in the system, or problem, it can be difficult for any of us to process it in a way that is most helpful. My consulting assistance will be focused on helping leaders, managers, and groups step outside their own box long enough to create their own solutions. Also, many times what is needed is a partial or full paradigm shift and systems can begin functioning at high levels again.

Further, I can help businesses and groups work through conflict. As we all know, most problems within a group are relational. My work with families and couples helps me to stand outside the relationship and help the system to understand part of what is going on. Only they can fill in the rest.

Lastly, I bring a humanistic/existential philosophy with me. What does that mean? Well, it means that I bring an understanding that humans are whole, not parts, and that those whole humans make up parts of a system. We often miss this when in systems and so human beings are left misunderstood, left behind, and left unappreciated. It is also about understanding the deeper human needs many of us have and how they drive everything we do, from within families, romantic relationships, and the workplace. I feel it is extremely important to live life and manage others from a compassionate place.