Heather R. Butler, CSW

Counseling should be used as prevention to future struggle not as a last ditch effort.

WHY YOU NEED TO VISIT ME.

We all have some level of lack of peace and/or pain in our life.  Therefore, we are looking for peace, or meaning, or relief, or connection, or fulfillment.  In the search, we may form an excessive dependency on something like:  

• Alcohol or drugs
• Work, achievement, or success
• Money: such as overspending, gambling, hording
• Control: especially if it surfaces in personal, sexual, family and business relationships
• Food: "comfort foods", overeating, compulsive eating
• Rescuing patterns toward other persons
• Dependency on toxic relationships
• Physical illness
• Academic pursuits
• General perfectionism
• Materialism
• and so on.

Most of us find ourselves somewhere on such a list.  We turn to things because we are hurting and want relief.