ODYSSEYCounseling and Therapy                   Mike Binks, MEd, LPC, CADC 3

Why counseling?  Why therapy?

Feeling more frustrated, weary, lonely, or that you're somehow "missing out" as time goes by? Facing the demands of a life with a hectic pace, ever-growing expectations, and diminishing returns? Maybe you're actually keeping up with life's demands, but feeling disconnected from your dreams and the people around you. These experiences are both common and painful, but they can also be filled with insight, motivation, and opportunity.  Make an investment in the priceless medium through which life is experienced and expressed:  yourself.

In therapy, you may choose to:

• Turn down the self-doubt. Shift your thoughts to increase your confidence.
• Slow the racing, incessant thoughts. Focus, organize and tap into the immense power of your mind.
• Regulate the overwhelming feelings. Identify, honor, and more openly express your feelings.  Allow them to work for you, rather than controlling you.  
• Move through debilitating grief. Heal and grow from personal loss.
• Go beyond depression, anxiety, and panic. Listen to and learn from what these feelings have to tell you. 
• Overcome physical, sexual, or emotional trauma and abuse. Find your immense inner strength. 
• Find that voice you feel you gave up. Be your own best advocate.
• Move away from self-invalidating behaviors. Replace ineffective patterns with actions that work for you, not against you.
• Curb addiction. Understand the forces behind addiction or compulsion and rein them in.
• Get unstuck from loneliness and disconnection. Communicate more effectively, experience more intimacy, and make purposeful choices about your place in family, friendships, and community.
• Break free from boredom. Be more alive, present, and connected to your own experience.

Languages. 

I provide mental health therapy and counseling services in English and Portuguese.

Quick access to relevant information.

I understand how valuable your time is.  The website is set up "newspaper style," so you can go right to the pages and information that you find personally relevant.

Questions? 

Always feel free to call or e-mail with any questions you may have about individual or couple counseling.  Whether you're looking for an in-depth therapist or a life coach to focus on skills and motivation, this may be the right place. Talking a bit more will help you to decide if it feels like a nice fit.  I look forward to hearing from you!

Phone (503) 740-0573 or e-mail Mike.