Dr. Mary Pratt Miller, Ph.D.

What is Counseling & Therapy?

Counseling assists individuals of all ages who may experience a wide variety of life challenges. It is a process that enhances a person’s ability to grow in positive ways. It benefits those seeking growth in their ability to love and accept themselves and to relate well with others. It’s an opportunity to explore, clarify, and sort through beliefs, to identify and change behaviors tin order to enhance a person’s ability to feel healthy and fully alive and to create satisfying relationships, and to learn to deal with a wide gamut of emotions in healthy ways. During times of stress or crisis, when facing difficulties and pressures, when you know there is more to life but you cannot grasp the key, when you want to grow and flourish; these are the times a professional counselor can be of service to you.

Confidentiality is a key element of the counseling process. Your privacy is of utmost importance. Your communications and the records pertaining to them have a privileged and confidential status.

What happens in therapy?

During your first session we will create the goals of your counseling experience together. Underlying all goals is the recognition that your maximum benefit is paramount. Counseling requires an investment of your time and energy. A person benefits most when making the therapeutic goals a part of his or her everyday life.