We live in a troubled and confusing world that requires a solid, consistent and reliable network of relationships for surviving and realizing our full potential. The importance of relationship on our physical, emotional and spiritual being is something we intuitively know and understand. The author of Genesis stated “It is not good for man to be alone.”

We are relational beings and science is beginning to document just how meaningful and powerful relationships are for us. A field of study called Interpersonal Neuroscience is discovering, through research, the effect we have on one another’s brain. Reflect on this a moment; our being together, especially our significant relationships, affect how our brain functions. How well our brain functions determines how well we function.

There is this profound connection then, between how well the important people in our life have treated us, how they currently treat or love us, and the condition of our well being. Our marital relationship, our parent-child relationship, our close friend relationship, our spiritual relationship —are all significant relationships. Counseling is also one.

Counseling is a significant and effective relationship when it creates a safe place and develops into a relationship that restores, renews and transforms aspects of our being.