Bryan Young

Welcome to Better Help, I’m Bryan Young, and for over 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of equipping people , to cultivate the qualities by outlining principles and encouraging practical steps to take regarding their mental, emotional and relational health concerns in hospital settings and private practice. When I was working in the veteran’s hospital, I always made it a point to offer a cup of water before walking through the intake question. I ofen found that offering cup of water did more for the person than the questions and the label put on the form. As a humanistic psychodynamic therapist, I recognize that working with a counselor can bring up intense emotions between two people. I’m used to it; my job is to practice self-awareness and how my actions and inactions affect and effect people every day. We can all be more mindful about when the past invades the present in the form of intense emotions, and what to do and what not do. This is what being an effective counselor has come to mean to me, I am as educated as I can be kind and effective for the person in front of me. I also have found it helpful to incorporate a classical understanding of happiness which has sees justice connected with effective hospitality by doing justice with regards to someone else’s lived experience. What you say should be used for you not against you in the counseling room. The reality of being a therapist means that it is not only my privilege to help but an obligation to adjust to you so you never feel like you need to adjust to me, relative to your concerns, counseling is a dynamic dialogue around your lived experiences and values not a monologue about mine. I look forward to equipping and supporting you, as we find a way forward to together. Warmly, Bryan Young