Dr. Timothy Weber

Individual, Couple, and Family Therapy

In my practice over the last 30 years, I meet with individuals, couples, and families.  I work in partnership with the client, carefully listening to the client's concerns and collaborating on solutions.  Typical concerns I work with include depression, anxiety, relationship distress, couple and marital issues, parent-child conflicts, work stress, life transition issues, addictions, and spiritual matters.  I use a variety of therapeutic models dedicated toward solutions and the restoration of hopefulness.  Treatment may be short term or long term depending on the nature of the concern.

An Active Learning Approach

Central to successful therapy is forming a trustworthy relationship with the cllient and attuning to the cllient's thoughts, feelings, actions, frustrations, desires, and goals.  Attention is given to the client's past, present, and future.  Insight and new understandings are important.  Being an open learner is critical to effective counseling.  Both the therapist and the client are co-learners witih the central focus being the client's life.  However, for therapy to be effective, insight must be translated into action and new ways of being.  I take a very active approach with the client, giving feedback, suggesting specific actions, offering homework assignments.  Ultimately, the client is the decision maker and is the one in charge of his/her own life.

Mind, Emotions, Body, Spirit, Relationships

Throughout therapy, attention is given to the client's thoughts, emotions, spirit, and relationships--both past and present.  Good therapy includes attention to the many dimensions of the client's life and collaborates with other health care professionals.  Effective counseling has breadth and depth, integrating the variety dimensions of the client's life in service of wholeness.

The Counselor-Client Teamwork

Counseling will be effective as long as the counselor and the client are working together as a team.  Thus, feedback is extremely important as the counselor gives feedback to clients and the client gives feedback to the counselor.  This synergy, or energy in working together provides the momentum for new ideas and possibilities.  The counseling conversation is interactive, dynamic, and oriented toward solutions and hope.