Philosophical counseling is not advisable in situations involving domestic violence, as these can be volatile and life-threatening. Prospective clients dealing with domestic violence are advised to reach out to law enforcement, an abuse shelter, or a therapist trained in domestic violence for immediate intervention.
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 Counselor: Philip Golabuk Format: hour-long phone call Requirements: phone and email service Once you've reserved your session, we'll email you with proposed scheduling.PHILO Counseling℠ Single •$150One-hour individual or couples phone session  PHILO COUNSELING℠ Double •$250Two Single sessions over two consecutive weeks See Terms of Service below before reserving. Session scheduling must be completed within 24 hours. Sessions that have not been scheduled and confirmed within 24 hours are subject to cancellation and refund. NEW TO PHILO?We recommend starting out with a Single session to make sure that PHILO Counseling℠ is right for you! |
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 Many of the problems that life serves up draw their power from some aspect of our beliefs about them. In fact, sorting out our experiences in the world from the assumptions, beliefs, conclusions, and expectations we carry, wittingly or unwittingly, requires the special skills that philosophical counseling brings to the table. Often the only thing we can change in a situation is ourselves—but when we change ourselves, remarkably, our world changes accordingly. This is why the ancients placed consummate value on the maxim, "know thyself," for they knew that self-knowledge is the key to happiness and "human flourishing."
PHILO Counseling℠ is designed to help clients clear contradictions, correct false beliefs and assumptions, and start enjoying improvements in wellness, work, energy, mood, peace of mind, relationships, and quality of life. In addition to uncovering often surprising solutions to even chronic and intractable problems in the main staging areas of experience—love, wellness, supply, and life direction—PHILO Counseling℠ serves as a proven framework for cultivating and deepening the self-awareness and self-knowledge essential to conscious, creative living. Through a process of Socratic examination and collaboration with the counselor, clients are guided out of suffering to their native state of alignment, authenticity, and joy. For over 30 years, PhilosophyCenter has helped clients and students achieve clearer self-definition, a deeper sense of life direction and purpose, and the joyful awareness that being alive is a wonderful deal and not just an exhausting exercise in coping with problems and stress.
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Philosophical counseling does not follow the therapeutic model of diagnosis and treatment but uses educational methods based on viewing the client as a free agent capable of honest self-assessment, insight, understanding, self-knowledge, and responsible choice. Rather than treating conditions, philosophical counseling aims to shed light on the underlying beliefs, assumptions, and paradigms that are shaping the client's view of self and world. Furthermore, since psychotherapy often involves exploration of the client's past, e.g., traumas suffered in childhood, it can require a protracted commitment. Philosophical counseling, on the other hand, focuses on the present to examine the existential structures of self-definition and the subtle assignments of meaning and significance that are informing the client's experience.
Philosophical counseling is an educational rather than therapeutic method and makes no therapeutic claims. |
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Session Scheduling Proposed scheduling or rescheduling must be confirmed within 24 hours. Sessions that are not scheduled and confirmed within 24 hours are subject to cancellation and refund. Double sessions must be scheduled over two consecutive weeks, usually one call per week on the same day of the week at the same hour, or more often if the client wishes. Note that scheduling is not complete until it is confirmed by PhilosophyCenter. No session can be scheduled until it is booked. Phoning In Canceled and Missed Calls We adhere to the strictest internal standards of privacy and confidentiality, and will not disclose client identity, information, or session details to any third party. |
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 Philip Golabuk is an international bestselling author and educator. After completing his undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy at the University of Florida with special studies in existentialism, theory of knowledge, and phenomenology, he taught philosophy at the college level and as part of a community outreach program to inmates in jail and prison. He has written several books in applied philosophy that were published in the U.S. and overseas in translation by national and international publishers including Harper & Row and Ernst Kabel Verlag and reviewed in The Washington Post. In 1993, he founded PhilosophyCenter, subsequently developing a number of courses in practical philosophy as well as leading-edge philosophical facilitating, counseling, and coaching models and methods. Philip is a member of the National Philosophical Counseling Association. He is also an accomplished fiction author, guitarist, and ballet dancer, proving that there are philosophers who actually can do things. |
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