Mr. Gregory William Stimler

LPCC

After my undergraduate degree, I spent about 10 years considering what direction my life would take. Through the various jobs I engaged in, I found my greatest satisfaction and interest in being with customers/students I was working with, exploring their thinking, the hopes and dreams, and making space for them to talk about and explore their challenges and pains. I found myself longing to be able to use myself, my presence, as a place for healing, learning, growth, and exploration. I want to walk with others and help them see themselves and their lives from new and deeper perspectives, finding the changes that they can make or learning how to find meaning, joy, and peace in the paths that they are currently leading that they may not be able to change fully.

I see all aspects of human living as integrated, body, mind, heart (see emotions), and soul (see spiritual, faith). I approach my practice the same way. Often the changes that are needing to be made are in one area not always considered, but end up changing other areas in the direction desired over time. Often we can shift a few things in other areas of living when we feel "stuck" in one area and then can actually make changes in that area. I also know that not every client fits a singular mode and we all have or variations of common themes in all our life areas, so it benefits to have various ways to seek to address making life changes. I refer to this as the "recipe" of life (multiple ingredients, in varying proportions, added at various times, and cooked a certain length of time to get the flavor we want... results!).

I am curious about seeing the connections, the "big picture" as well as finding ways to live in that picture more deliberately. I see each person on their own mountain of life and want to walk that with them with also having another perspective to offer. I am understanding while also present gentle "nudges" to consider different perspectives. I am more or less straight forward about things, though understanding that we all don't come from the same understanding about life. I take my time with my clients and offer them warmth, consideration, structure, boundaries, affirmation, and good feedback, just as I would like to receive from people trying to help me. I desire to see the whole person as I as well desire to do so with myself. I lead with humility (I have my things, you have yours, we all have different flavors of the same ice cream) and will lead with both the challenge and the benefits in self-disclosure as well as acknowledging that my example is not going to look the same as my clients.