About

I'm Paul Goossens. Great for you to reach out for support! I am a licensed Psychologist with extensive experience helping teens, adults, and families maneuver through a variety of mental health challenges and life transitions. I seek to understand and connect with each individual in the context of their life, while working together to define treatment success and create pathways toward that success. I am able to offer an assortment of clinical tools and modalities to our work together, tailored to each person's needs. I am here to help you move forward when you are ready. My approach While I am able bring an assortment of clinical tools and modalities to our work together, I primarily work within cognitive-behavioral and rational-emotive modalities where we explore the connections between our thoughts and interpretations of life’s challenges and our emotional and behavioral responses to such. Within that context, when appropriate we may explore ideas through a psychodynamic lens; consider family relationship challenges from a family systems perspective; gain insights from use of metaphors; or tap ideas from Transactional Analysis to better understand relationship dynamics. I listen to the "language" of each client to determine tools and modalities that may resonate and help move our work forward. My focus I mostly work with individuals facing mental health challenges in the context of life transitions. Our life is a series of transitions – both those that have already occurred and those we are considering. We might struggle with transitions resulting from losses such as death, illness, job loss/change, or relationships, or even while embarking on “positive transitions” such as new relationships, job, school. Growth is change. Change is hard. Help is good. My communication style It is important that each client feels safe, respected, and understood. I strive to balance being client-focused and supportive, while also providing challenge and alternative perspectives