Licensed Professional Counselor and Motivational Speaker
individuals · couples · families · interventions · workshops & lectures · relationship interventions
depression · anxiety · intimacy · relationship issues · grief · codependency · addictions · trauma
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durango & telluride
"Recovery
isn't about
changing
who we are.
It is letting go
of who we
are not."
Claudia Black
My Counseling Approach:
Each of us is a truly unique and precious human being.
As such, no cookie-cutter approach to counseling could ever suffice.
My counseling style is highly individualized and flexible, tailored to meet my clients' particular needs.
Using an integrative approach (blending cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, family systems, and experiential therapies, as well as psycho education and alternative modalities), I aim to help clients break the bondage of the past, find freedom from dysfunctional living, reclaim self, and achieve the authenticity and abundance we all so deserve.
My counseling approach is highly proactive, as I co-participate with clients in finding unique and productive solutions to life's problems. I encourage all of my clients to become passionate advocates for themselves. And I enthusiastically advocate for them in the meanwhile.
My primary objective is to help my clients move on - namely, to no longer need my services. This, I believe, is the purpose of therapy...
To help our clients help themselves. To encourage, empower and equip. My proactive approach will reflect this philosophy.
People can and do change. This I firmly believe.
It is a true privilege to walk alongside my clients as they become change agents
in their own lives.
I look forward to walking alongside you as you navigate your way toward a more authentic and abundant tomorrow.
Kingsley B. Gallup, MA, LPC, NCC
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Complimentary Initial Session
info@kingsleygallup.com
970.426.2130
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Professional Credentials
Licensed Professional Counselor
Nationally Certified Counselor
Masters in Counseling
Certified, Post-Induction Training
with Pia Mellody
Professional Member,
American Counseling Association
June Ponderings: How can I design a life I love? How can I invent that wonderful next chapter? Here are some thoughts... Become an expert on you. Go into your interior. See where you are now. Make clear and empowered choices about what to keep and what to let go of. Identify that which is authentic and inauthentic, true and untrue, liberating and debilitating, in your life. Commit to shedding the inauthentic so as to reveal the true you. Then create your vision. And step into it! Clarify your mission. Siphon through the chaos, through all that has kept your true self hidden, asking, What do I really want? Based on all that self-knowledge, what are the ingredients of a life you love? Vagueness will get you nowhere. Put words to it. Create images. Do some writing and visioning. Perhaps do a Personal Mission Statement. You will likely find something near and dear to your heart. Chances are, you will find YOU! Follow your highest inner guidance. When you clarify your mission, when you create your images and put words to it all, this is when that harsh inner critic often appears. So, watch for it. Say, I caught you! Watch that inner speech. Make sure it’s not working against you. Let go of limiting beliefs, those debilitating beliefs that are more about your past than they are about your present. Remember, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” (James Allen) Practice the power of discernment. Let discernment is your navigator. Make sure you decide what you allow into your reality, into your vision. Don’t sell your soul to the negatives. Listen to your inner guidance. Hold your center. Be a mystical narcissist (in the words of Caroline Myss). Hold yourself to a new standard. Raise yourself to a new level. Haven't you been in survival mode long enough? Operating at a lower level of functioning? It’s time to say to yourself, I’m not playing in the lower altitudes anymore! Time to cooperate with the divine, co-create your reality, and live your purpose. Remember, you are on a spiritual journey. In the words of Aldous Huxley, “The finding of God is a coming to one's self.” All of this is spiritual work. Designing an authentic life, a life you love, is about lifting yourself to a higher level. It is rising up and out of your history, out of survival mode, out of just 'getting by', to a much higher purpose. So start inventing that next wonderful chapter! "You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You were not meant for crawling so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly."
Design your Life:
Inventing the Next Chapter
We started out fine…
then we got defined…
now we’re getting refined!
Rumi
A Selected Reading: The time will come
Love After Love
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger
who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread.
Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Derek Walcott
In this journey you are the healer
and the healed.
