About Therapy
Let’s put you back at the helm.
Just as you cannot control the weather, many aspects of life are beyond our control. But you can act and make choices that steer you in the direction you want to go. Often, it is easy to feel pushed around and at the whim of whatever the day throws at you.
Therapy promotes growth that enables you to move from being a passenger in your own life to being at the helm and guiding your own way forward.
Therapy is not about control but finding solutions.
We try so hard to control our world. You pick the temperature of your home, the car you drive, the food you eat, and the couch you sit on.
It would be so much easier if thoughts and emotions were the same – but they’re not.
That’s the point of therapy: not to control, but instead to learn to manage thoughts and emotions in a way that can be insightful and helpful.
What is therapy like?
When you begin therapy, it can feel a bit strange at first – talking with someone new and outside your daily life. It’s this outside view that can change your own vantage point. To see your life from a new perspective with new turns to be made.
Therapy is about having trust that you can grow and generate change from within. Much of your growth in therapy is determined by the amount of effort you put into yourself.
You are the expert of yourself, and only you can do the work. Therapy is a process to explore the thoughts, emotions, experiences, challenges, and battles that have brought you to this point. It provides you with a time and place to explore and redefine them in ways that empower you – to put you back in the helm again.
Here’s what it’s like to work with me.
My therapeutic approach provides you with new ways of behaving and thinking that aim to enhance the quality of your life. The most important thing is that you feel heard and understood.
I believe that therapy can be challenging at times, but it is also occasionally enlightening, and it is always worth the effort you put into caring for yourself.
Our therapy sessions are 55 minutes long and will begin with a brief review of what you have been working on and the skills and insights you have gained since your last session.
We will explore thoughts and emotions that are meaningful to you and explore ways to help you move forward.
About Aaron Bilodeau, MS, LPC, NCC
Becoming a therapist involved transitions.
My goal has always been to be supportive of those who want to change, and at times be challenging to those who need to be pushed.
I got into therapy because I’ve been on all sides of the process. As a student, I had to learn life’s hard lessons. I’ve also been a therapy client, and had a great therapist who helped support me. As an instructor, I have now become a therapist for others.
I know the change that can take place because I’ve lived it.
From an educational standpoint,
I received my Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Community Counseling at the University of North Georgia and practiced as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia, Colorado, and Montana.
In my free time…
I enjoy getting outside to mountain bike, ski, rock climb, and backpack. I love getting out there and bringing my kids up close to nature and into the mountains.