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How Can I Serve You?
If you are struggling with or spend a great deal of time contemplating any
of these questions, I may can be of help to you.
From a Counseling and Psychotherapy
Perspective…
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Do you have a prescription for psychiatric
medications?
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Do you have a history of psychiatric diagnosis?
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Are you experiencing significant transitions
in areas of your life?
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Do you wonder if you are depressed?
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Are you anxious, irritable,
or experiencing feelings of panic?
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Have you lost consistent contact with your
spirituality?
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Do you, at times, feel ‘lost at sea’?
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Do you wonder if you drink or get
high too much?
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Do you, at times, lose control over your
drinking or substances?
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Is your family or friends concerned with
your drinking or substance use?
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Is your self-esteem consistently low?
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Do you have low expectations of yourself?
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Do you seem to always ‘expect the worst’?
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Do you suffer from a lack of confidence in
yourself?
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Do you, at times, feel like giving up?
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Do you, at times, feel “less than” or
“unworthy” in the presence of others?
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Do you have obsessive thoughts?
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Does your mind race, often to the point of
distraction?
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Do you have difficulty concentrating and
holding attention to the task at hand?
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Do you have problems sleeping?
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Do you feel ruled by your feelings?
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Do you experience feelings that are, at times,
overwhelming?
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Do your thoughts or feelings cause you to behave in ways
that are destructive?
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Do you sabotage yourself in certain area of
your life?
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Do you wonder why you have destructive patterns of
behaviors in your life and can’t seem to change them?
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Do you feel, at times, that your behaviors are out of
control?
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Are you experiencing significant consequences with
relationships, jobs, financial, physical, or with the legal system?
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Do you find that you are often an uncomfortable
participant within your meaningful relationships, especially during
emotionally close or intense moments?
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Do you tend to “hold back” or “keep
things to yourself” in your closest relationships? If so, do you
wonder why?
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Do you find it difficult to trust others,
especially when the relationship deepens or intensifies?
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When is the last time you felt emotionally safe
to the extent of expressing your most vulnerable thoughts or feelings?
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Is it hard for you to communicate your
deepest feelings and needs? Are you suffering from a lack of confidence
in your ability to create and maintain deep relationships?
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Have you given up hope with having your
needs addressed or satisfied?
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Do you wonder if you are capable of being an
Intimate Person?
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From a Relationship Perspective…
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Do you have a history of broken relationships
of all types?
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Do you have multiple marriages and/or divorces?
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Is your marriage satisfying?
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Do you feel close to important others in
your life?
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Are you and the people who constitute your meaningful
relationships sharing emotional closeness to the extent you
desire?
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Does your spouse or other important relationships
generally leave you emotionally unsatisfied?
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Do your relationships operate with too much
distance?
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Are you an intimate person?
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Is your partner an intimate person?
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Do you have communication issues with
significant people in your life?
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Do you believe that your spouse or other important people
have things they need to share and say, but for some reason can’t
or won’t communicate with you?
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Do you often experience your marriage or other meaningful
relationships as limited or superficial?
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Is it hard for you to say ‘no’ (or yes) to important
people when you really want to say ‘yes’ (or ‘no’)?
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Do you have boundary issues, or wonder if
your boundaries in certain areas of your life are working?
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Do you have trust issues?
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Is it hard for you to trust anybody, or just in your
close relationships?
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Are you trustworthy?
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Do you know what ‘trust’ really is?
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Do you feel safe in your marriage or
significant relationship?
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Have you ever felt safe in a relationship?
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Do you know what ‘feeling safe’ is?
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How vulnerable are you in your close
relationships?
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Is it hard for you to be or express vulnerability
in your marriage or significant relationship?
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Are you frustrated or disappointed in your partner in
their inability to express vulnerability?
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Are you emotionally unavailable?
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Is your partner emotionally unavailable?
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Are you in a new relationship or planning to marry?
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Are you emotionally satisfied with your
close relationships?
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From an Executive or Entrepreneurial
Perspective…
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Do you manage your career, or does your career
manage you?
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Are you servicing a ‘career’ or are you
working a job?
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Are you satisfied with your performance in
your circle of responsibility?
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Are you aware of your circle of influence?
Are you taking full advantage of your ability to influence
others?
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Do you view your career position as strategic?
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Are you aware of what you add to the ‘bottom line’
from your position?
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Are you efficient?
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Do you have an effective ‘priority agenda’?
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How do you know if you are working on the projects that
provide you with the greatest return on your time investment?
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Do you have an effective method of determining
what you should be accomplishing?
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How strong are your financial statement
skills? What do they tell you?
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Do you receive timely and accurate financial
information? Do you use your circle of influence to obtain this
information?
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Do you produce timely and accurate financial
information?
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Does your internal financial information
allow you to manage your area of responsibility?
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What is your leadership style?
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Is leading others easy or hard for you?
Are you getting the results you desire from your leadership
skills?
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What does your organization’s strategic plan
look like for next year? Three years? Five years?
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Do you lead with your organization’s strategic plan
in mind? Are you in alignment with your top management?
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Does your management team know exactly how
to manage to the strategic plan? Are you in alignment
with this plan?
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Is your area of responsibility properly staffed
with the optimal headcount?
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Do you receive an optimal return on your
headcount investment?
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Are you satisfied with your personal people
management skills?
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What is your understanding of motivation?
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How do you think? How do you obtain enough
data to support your thoughts process?
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What is your personality type? What are
your strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots?
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What are the personality types of your subordinates? Of
your bosses?
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What is your interaction style? What are
your strengths, weakness, and blind spots in your interactions with others?
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What are the interaction styles of your subordinates? Of
your bosses?
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Are your meetings worth their investment in time?
Do they accomplish what they are designed to accomplish?
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What is the satisfaction level of your
relationships outside of your work?
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How is your marriage? How is your
relationship with your children?
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Is your life in balance? What is the level of
satisfaction with life as a whole?
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Are you aware of the impacts of your career
pursuits on your social life, spiritual life, physical well-being, and
emotional well-being?
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Are you able to maintain balance with your
career, family, financial, physical, emotional, and spiritual development?
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From an Organizational Perspective…
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Are you satisfied with the performance of
your business or business unit?
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Are you profitable, financially viable?
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Are you efficient?
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How is your cash flow?
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What do your financial statements tell your
lenders, investors, key customers, key vendors, and other stakeholders? What
do they tell you?
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Do you receive timely and accurate financial
information?
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Does your internal financial information
allow you to manage your business?
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What does your strategic plan look like for
next year? Three years? Five years?
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Does your management team know exactly how
to manage to your strategic plan?
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Do you have alternatives? Do you have a method of
evaluating alternatives?
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What does your business do best? Are you
realizing a full return on your expertise?
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Are you properly positioned in your
markets?
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How are your vendor relations?
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How are your customer relations?
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Are you properly staffed with the optimal
headcount?
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Do you receive an optimal return on your
headcount investment?
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Are you satisfied with your personal people
management skills?
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Are your managers trained to deal with
managing people?
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Are your meetings worth their investment in time?
Do they accomplish what they are designed to accomplish?
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Are your internal information systems and
internal procedures in alignment?
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Do your management staff and employees fully
utilize your software?
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Are you experiencing transitions? Do you
have the people skills, change skills, and patience to manage these
transitions?
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Do you manage your business, or does your business
manage you?
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From an Educational Perspective…
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What is ‘good mental health’?
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What is ‘impaired mental health’?
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Why is good mental health not about feeling good
all the time?
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What does labeling our emotions as 'good' or 'bad'
impact our self-image and our self-esteem?
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What is the meaning behind the ‘full range of
emotion'?
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Explain the five ways we limit our experience with
or impair our range of emotions?
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Am I an Intimate Person?
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Are we an Intimate Couple?
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Can I learn to become more intimate?
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What are the six elements that build
intimacy?
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How can I apply these to my life and in my
relationships?
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What is the ‘Cycle of Mental Health’?
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How does my personal Cycle of Mental Health
work for or against me?
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Why are my behaviors more important than my
thoughts or feelings?
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How does the definition of insanity
(described as doing the same things over again, expecting different results)
play out in my life?
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How and why does the 12-Steps work for
recovering from addictions?
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