Mindful Counseling GR

History

Mindful Counseling GR was born in June of 2013 from a vision and passion I (Bryan Nixon) have to help people reconnect with their innate ability to flourish. Over the past 10 years my experience in working with my clients evolved to a place where it was not compelling to view people through the lens of pathology and symptom management. No matter how intense and limiting their symptoms might be, I work with courageous people who bear the marks of painful stories needing to be told. I have come to view symptoms as messengers and work to help my clients slow down and turn towards their symptoms with curiosity rather than aversion. At Mindful Counseling GR we all hold to this philosophy and are striving to de-stigmatize counseling. This is why we view our work as therapists not as giving our clients something that they are lacking, but rather, as traveling with them through the process of reconnecting with what is most true about them, with their own ability to flourish.

Specialties

At Mindful Counseling GR we whole-heartedly believe that as human beings, we already have within ourselves everything we need to flourish. The problem is that we are all marked by brokenness. We bear the scars of wounds from our past. We feel stuck, powerless and undesirable. It seems nearly impossible to hold hope that anything life-giving can emerge from our scars. Often we think,