Kevin's Inspirations & Influences
I am a strong believer in the “humanistic” ideas of the great father of this approach: Carl Rogers, including his concept of “radical genuineness”, as our therapeutic relationship, though professional, is still one human being conversing with another. Whatever your religious and/or existential outlook on life is, that is also important to me and my efforts to help you, as I consider myself to be a “thinking” person, who questions the nature of human existence, and believe that such discussions are therapeutic and important to someone as they go through life and try to make sense of their problems and life experience.
I have trained with and am most influenced by the work of famed US psychotherapist: Dr. Barry Duncan. He has written a number of important books including: The Heroic Client, What’s Right With You, On Becoming a Better Therapist and The Heart and Soul of Change. For me, the essence of what I have learned from him, relates to the saying: “If you catch a person a fish, he will eat for a day; if you teach a person to fish, she will eat for a lifetime”. While changing a person’s life, is a lofty and ambitious goal upon entering into the psychotherapeutic process, it is the correct one.
Through Dr. Duncan’s extensive research on what truly effects change via the psychotherapeutic process, I have learned that a person must be empowered, through this process, to learn self-sufficiency and self-reliance. My ultimate goal, through capitalizing upon your own and unique strengths, resources, resiliencies and the positive things that will inevitably occur in your life, outside of therapy sessions that I do not have control over, is to help you learn to solve your own problems and make positive changes in your life.
I am a strong believer in the “humanistic” ideas of the great father of this approach: Carl Rogers, including his concept of “radical genuineness”, as our therapeutic relationship, though professional, is still one human being conversing with another. Whatever your religious and/or existential outlook on life is, that is also important to me and my efforts to help you, as I consider myself to be a “thinking” person, who questions the nature of human existence, and believe that such discussions are therapeutic and important to someone as they go through life and try to make sense of their problems and life experience.
I have trained with and am most influenced by the work of famed US psychotherapist: Dr. Barry Duncan. He has written a number of important books including: The Heroic Client, What’s Right With You, On Becoming a Better Therapist and The Heart and Soul of Change. For me, the essence of what I have learned from him, relates to the saying: “If you catch a person a fish, he will eat for a day; if you teach a person to fish, she will eat for a lifetime”. While changing a person’s life, is a lofty and ambitious goal upon entering into the psychotherapeutic process, it is the correct one.
Through Dr. Duncan’s extensive research on what truly effects change via the psychotherapeutic process, I have learned that a person must be empowered, through this process, to learn self-sufficiency and self-reliance. My ultimate goal, through capitalizing upon your own and unique strengths, resources, resiliencies and the positive things that will inevitably occur in your life, outside of therapy sessions that I do not have control over, is to help you learn to solve your own problems and make positive changes in your life.
