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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So, What Does it all Mean?
On just about a nightly basis throughout my younger years, my father would stand at my bedroom door and, before saying goodnight, would ask, “So, kid, what does it all mean?”
So, I’ve been pondering this one for quite some time now. In fact, who hasn’t wondered what it all means? Who hasn’t contemplated their life’s purpose?
I believe one of the leading causes of stress is the absence of meaning in people’s lives. So many folks walk around utterly in the dark, unconscious about their true selves. Unconscious about how they interact with their world. Confused about the why’s behind it all.
Having thought about this for a while, I can say that, for me, the meaning of it life is revealing and living our highest potential….and in so doing, living a life of purpose.
In order to live our highest potential, we absolutely must get to know our true self, perhaps for the first time, and then live from that place of authenticity. We need to be wide awake. Fully conscious. 100% genuine.
Now, living your highest potential is not simply about what you do. It’s not about your work. It isn’t about achievement. Or success. At least not as the world defines success.
No, it’s more than that.
Living our highest potential is no vague endeavor either. It’s not just some nebulous notion, such as, “I want to he happy.” “I want a peaceful life.” “I want to be fulfilled.”
No, it’s more than that.
Living our highest potential, to borrow Carolyn Myss’ definition, is acting and choosing, in every moment where we see a choice is present, the highest possible outcome.
We live our highest potential one choice at a time. One authentic moment at a time. After all, it’s not, ‘Who do I want to be?’ Rather, it’s, ‘How do I be who I am?’
“Man’s ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy—that he live in accordance with his own nature.” Seneca
Professional Credentials The time will come
Licensed Professional Counselor
Nationally Certified Counselor
Masters in Counseling
Certified, Post-Induction Training with Pia Mellody
Professional Member, American Counseling Association
Selected Readings:
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
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Mary Oliver
In this journey you are the healer
and the healed.
