Covid 19 Update: Video Psychotherapy and In-Person Sessions Available
Dear clients and potential clients,
I am currently offering video sessions for the time being via Simple Practice. I am also offering in-person sessions in my office. I will wear a mask during all sessions for the time being. In person sessions are on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Please contact me at rexdwest@gmail.com to schedule a session.
I am currently offering video sessions for the time being via Simple Practice. I am also offering in-person sessions in my office. I will wear a mask during all sessions for the time being. In person sessions are on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Please contact me at rexdwest@gmail.com to schedule a session.
May you and your loved ones be safe and well.
Rex West, Ground Counseling LLC
Providing psychotherapy with compassion, empathy, humility, and an open heart
As human beings we have the power to change our experience in any given moment and to rewire our brains and nervous systems to create the lives that we want to live. The work is all about relationships: the relationship we have with ourselves, with our partners, with our families, friends, coworkers, other sentient beings, the environment inside and outside of us, with the past, present, and future. It is in the dynamic of the intrapersonal and the interpersonal that we can effectively explore who we are, what is possible, and to make the changes we want to see in our lives play out in our relationships.
We can define mental health as the ability to monitor ourselves and modify our states so that we integrate our lives. Then things that appeared unchangeable can actually be changed.
~ Dan SiegelCounseling Services
I am passionate about relationships and working with couples and families within the relationship context to support change and secure functioning. I am fascinated by organisms and systems and bring this into all that I do in my work.
While I believe that all states of being are workable, I have come to focus on a few specific areas of living, which are listed below.

Grief
I view grief as one of the least understood and most prevalent elements of human experience. It is one of the most profound experiences in our lives and can be a catalyst for acceptance and change. Grief is about loss, whatever the loss may be not only death. This can be around major life changes such as birth, death, ending of relationships, jobs, etc. We actually experience loss on a daily basis in the form of change. I work to bring grief and loss into the broader consciousness of being a whole and healthy human being.
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Individuals
We are all part of multiple, interconnected systems. We are connected to the world outside us through a wide variety of systems; interpersonal, family, energetic, biological, informational, spiritual to name a few. There are systems outside of us that also influence our lives. My approach is to explore and evaluate the systems that are pertinent for each individual, couple, and family I work with as a means to make sense of who my clients are and how they got to where they are in their lives.
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Brain Injuries
As someone who has had Minor Traumatic Brain Injuries (MTBI) myself, I have a unique experiential understanding of the immense and confounding challenges of being in the world with an altered brain and mind. Out of my own experience and healing, I support others in claiming the new reality of their lives. Together we explore how you can navigate the world in a more efficient, effective, satisfying, and compassionate way. Out of your experience of your brain changing we can transform you into a change agent and empower you to learn how to work with your own brain.
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About Rex
My work is grounded in mindfulness-based psychotherapy, transpersonal psychology, the PACT psychobiological approach to couples therapy, somatic/body-centered approaches, family constellations, Gestalt, systems dynamics, modern attachment theory, and grief work.
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