Pinnacle Counseling and Consulting

Pinnacle Counseling and Consulting 🌿I share helpful mental health tips and resources, never as a substitute for therapy, but to support your healing journey. I’d love to connect and help.🌿

If you’re looking for compassionate counseling and personalized care, please get in touch with me. Counseling or Life Coaching - What's the difference? In counseling, we work to treat diagnosed mental disorders. Life coaching focuses on current or future decisions and goals. Health insurance plans that cover mental health services pay for counseling only; while fees for coaching services are paid by the individual.

Dr Fisher writes this insightful post about Suicidal Ideation. In Trauma associated with abuse, these thoughts may faci...
10/25/2025

Dr Fisher writes this insightful post about Suicidal Ideation. In Trauma associated with abuse, these thoughts may facilitate survival. Ideations are concerning and should not be dismissed. If you or someone you know is expressing suicidal ideations, a therapist trained in Trauma treatment can help.

Suicidal ideation is rarely, if ever, about wanting to die. Its intent is to make life bearable by giving the client an “out,” a way of feeling some control over her pain and shame. Originally, it may have developed during the abuse as an attempt to tolerate the fears that the abuse would annihilate her: if you want to die, dying is not so terrifying. In adulthood, it is also a way of controlling the overwhelming fear and pain. When we reframe the suicidal ideation and impulses in this way, we can empathize with the survivor’s struggle: she longs for death as a way to live.

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Discover key strategies from Dr. Henry Cloud on how to deal with toxic people.

I believe you already have these three keys. A goal of therapy is to help you strengthen them as you engage in the chall...
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I believe you already have these three keys. A goal of therapy is to help you strengthen them as you engage in the challenging work of therapy.

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“Sensations are the nonverbal language of our bodies that give us signals about our emotional and physical needs.” - Pat Ogden, Founder of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) enables clients to discover and change habitual physical and psychological patterns that impede optimal functioning and well-being. SP helps clients cultivate their strengths while providing enough challenge to stimulate growth, long-lasting change, and well-being.

Visit www.sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/resources for more helpful resources.

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What led me to become a professional counselor?

I never planned to become a therapist or to own a counseling practice. It came as a small seed planted in the year 2001. At that time, I was working along the professional career path I valued and pursued with determined passion. Life was settled and comfortable, until everything I had counted as secure and certain dramatically shifted. My world began to implode.

After dark and desperate months unsuccessfully navigating a new “normal” I chose to make an appointment to meet with a therapist. Coincidentally, it was the same day that a decisive life choice had to be made. I’ve not forgotten the way this therapist heard my story, leaned forward with kindness and acceptance saying “I cannot tell you what to do, but I can promise to walk this journey with you.” Many well-meaning friends, family, books, church leaders and others had given advice on how to move forward. NO ONE had promised to walk it with me. I was no longer alone.

Sometimes, the events that threaten to crush us become a catalyst for a renovation or reinvention of ourselves. I believe Jan 2.0 is a better version of myself that began during that pivotal first session. Over time, a new purpose, vision and passion evolved into doing the work to become a therapist so that I could help others in the way that I was helped.

Studies have shown that a major factor in the change that occurs through therapy is the quality of the therapeutic relationship that develops between client and therapist. My goal with every client is to recognize and appreciate their individuality. To build an environment of trust where my clients can freely express their hurts, thoughts, and dreams without judgment. I seek to join them on their journey through the troubles that brought them to my door and celebrate as they rise up to reach their goals.