Fees: $200 Intake Therapy Session and $150 per 50 minute individual session/$200 per 60 minute couples session/$240 per 90 minute family session
Areas of Focus: Trauma, secondary trauma, moral distress, grief, spiritual trauma and/or exploration, attachment and relationship issues, existential limits, difficult diagnoses, family patterns, dream work, narrative therapy
Specialized Skills: Individuals, partners, families, health care, spirituality, existential therapy, Jungian-oriented psychotherapy
Contact: rcampbell@grove-counseling.com or 469-613-8788
Life presents each of us with the opportunity to be in an authentic relationship with ourselves, with others, with the world around us, and with whatever we connect to that’s bigger than ourselves (be it God, the Self, or even just the Mystery or Meaning of it all). When we aren’t able to be in authentic relationships, we can easily become stuck. Stuck in patterns of behaviors, stuck in the unhelpful stories we tell ourselves about ourselves or about those we love, even stuck in the search to find meaning and purpose in our lives. By bringing the thoughts, stories, feelings and patterns that keep us stuck out into the light, we can free ourselves to move into more authentic, meaningful, and purposeful lives that connect us to who we truly are, to the people we love and interact with every day, and to where we find the most fulfillment in the lives we live in both our inner and outer worlds.
As a spiritual care provider in a pediatric hospital for 15 years, I have extensive experience working with children, intimate partners, parents and families who are searching deeply for how to live their most authentic and meaningful lives, even in the face of difficult diagnoses, challenging relationships, behavioral patterns, and loss. As a marriage and family therapist who is primarily oriented to the psychotherapeutic approach of Carl G Jung, I seek to help individuals, children, teens/adolescents, couples and families find their most authentic expression of who they are as people in relationship with themselves and with whatever it is that matters most to them. In doing this work, we pay attention to our hopes and dreams, our creativity and imagination, and even the things we especially don’t like to see or think about within ourselves. Everything belongs in this process of meaning-making without judgement or shame. If we can learn to be honest with ourselves, we can learn to be who we truly are.
Every individual is a unique self and I take an unique approach to each person that I work with—human to human. Relationships are also each unique to those who create them together, whether in friendships, intimate partnerships or families. My trauma-informed approach includes existential and attachment-based therapies, family systems approaches, narrative and poetic medicine, and working with the contents of the unconscious through creative expression, imaginative exploration and dream work.
I also have extensive experience working with healthcare clinicians (physicians, nurses, allied health professionals) and first responders, spiritual leaders in a wide variety of faith traditions (clergy, chaplains, and multi-faith ministers), and those in leadership and administrative positions seeking to find connection and meaning in the challenging work they do.
In the immortal words of the Beastie Boys, “be true to yourself and you will never fall!”