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, "Hope is great...for other people, but just feels like a setup for deeper disappointment in my case." Our ability to be curious about our experiences becomes numb.
The counseling relationship is one in which we begin to awaken curiosity as we look into the broken places with different eyes. With curiosity comes possibility. With possibility comes hope. It takes courage to do this work. The payoff of your courage is the likely discovery that there is a beauty and depth that can emerge from your brokenness.
We would be deeply honored by the opportunity to join you on your journey towards deeper insight, healing and transformation so that you can show up in the world in new and life-giving ways as your most authentic self.
History
Established in 2013.
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.
Meet the Business Owner: Bryan N.
"I believe that we all have everything we need to flourish, but life often piles all sorts of stuff on top of that which prevent us from living our best lives. Things like, mental, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse coupled with experiences of shame, abandonment, betrayal and loss all force us to find ways of surviving rather than thriving. Mindful Counseling GR was born in June of 2013 from a vision and passion I have to help people reconnect with their innate ability to flourish." - Bryan Nixon