What is Wellness Counseling?

“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.”

~ Haruki Murakami ~

A wellness revolution is at hand:

leaving behind the old siloed way of treating illness and disease after the fact;

entering an era of prevention education, acceptance, and health maintenance for genuine well-being.

Working through the lens of systems and interconnection between mind, body, and spirit -

true wellness, function, connection, and a meaningful life await you!

The wellness approach is one of holistic health - a biopsychosocial philosophy on what drives and perpetuates disease. If we only aim to treat illness after it has begun, we are only working to repair what is already broken. This approach has its place, of course we need treatment options on the back end, modern Western medicine is an amazing and crucial element - AND we also need to think about how to practice healthy habits and maintain wellness on the front end to prevent disease in the first place. That’s where wellness counseling comes in.

Wellness counseling adopts a “systems” approach to health maintenance. Looking at all elements of the human experience, we see how to improve each domain for the betterment of the whole person. The eight domains of wellness include: Mental, Emotional, Physical, Spiritual, Social, Financial, Environmental, and Vocational. Like spokes in a wheel, each domain of wellness provides support for the entire structure. And like an organ in the body, or an animal in the wild, each domain serves its own vital function as an element in the ecosystem, the circle of life - the entire system depends on all parts to work in harmony or there is bound to be breakdown, and with the body, disease.

Wellness counseling can help you learn ways to manage you health through lifestyle changes, we become empowered to make changes to improve our circumstances, support each other and assist with accountability toward personal health goals, and see that there is hope and connection beyond what we thought possible!

Learn more about Vickie, her approaches and philosophy, as well as inquire about individual and group counseling services here: About and Services