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If you are like many people today, there are many things in your life for which you feel fortunate. However, some parts of your life are still a struggle. For example, your marriage might be in trouble and you don’t know how to save it. You may have some bad habits, or even addictions, that you can’t seem to break no matter how hard you try. Or maybe your finding your self angry, irritable, or down in the dumps–and you can’t seem to bring yourself back to ‘normal,’ back to happiness…
You don’t need to do it on your own.
If the Richmond, VA area is where you call home, and you’re ready to gain the knowledge, help and support you need to make real changes in your life, Thriveworks Richmond Counseling can help.
“Everything is a mess. How can you possibly help me?”
We know that life’s problems can feel overwhelming. At times, it can feel like you’re staring right at a mountain, and understandably asking yourself, “How in the world can I climb this thing?” You can – but the key is that you don’t climb it alone.
The counselors at Thriveworks Richmond Counseling can help you with many of the struggles you may be facing.
To accomplish this, we offer:
- Life Coaching
- Couples Counseling
- Marriage Counseling
- Career Counseling
- Anxiety Counseling
- Depression Counseling
- Addiction Therapy
Whether you need help facing a crisis, or even if you want to strengthen the solid life skills you already have, we are here to help.
Make positive changes today!
Thriveworks Richmond Counseling doesn’t believe in waiting lists. We passionately believe that too many people wait much too long to get the help they need from healthcare providers.
That’s why you can call us today at 1-804-554-0356 and setup an appointment with a qualified, licensed, caring professional within 48 hours, possibly even the same day you call.
No matter how ugly or painful the past might be, a bright future can be yours. You deserve it. Call us today and let’s catch a glimpse of how good life can be.
Warmly,
Your Friends at Thriveworks
Good morning: I am excited to forward my resume (pasted below) with regards to the therapist position available. I do not have a VA license though my counseling ability is worth the wait (gaining clinical hrs toward licensure). I am looking to relocate to Virginia from NY (tired of snow… and to be perfectly honest, NY does not recognize my MMFT for licensure – so I’m moving to ply my trade). Any consideration is appreciated. I am available for an interview between 3/10/12 and 3/19/12.
Respectfully,
Patrick Gibbons
PATRICK LEE GIBBONS, MMFT
8800 Harmon Hill Road
Fredonia, New York, 14063
716-672-6326
716-969-4943
plgibbons@liberty.edu or plgibbons@hotmail.com
Goal: To help at-risk and hurting people through a variety of therapeutic techniques.
EDUCATION
12/2008 Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA
Master of Arts Marriage and Family Therapy
*2012 Liberty University Theological Seminary, Lynchburg, VA
Master of Arts in Religion: Biblical Studies. (May, 2012 graduation)
1983 Adelphi University, Garden City, Long Island New York, 11704
Bachelor of Social Work.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2007 – Present Private Practice Counselor. Provide counseling services in church setting.
2009 Family Service of the Chautauqua Region. Family Therapist and Counseling Consultant. Provided counseling support to individuals, couples and families in this United Way agency. Provided individual and group sex-offender treatment to court mandated offenders. EAP Critical Incident Counselor.
1993 – 2005 New York State Division of Parole.
Senior Parole Officer (FPO2). Supervised law enforcement officers and support staff in NY State prison parole offices at Gowanda and Lakeview Shock Boot Camp. Responsible for the preparation and administration of monthly parole board hearings. Responsible for the safe release of state inmates to the community.
1990 – 1993 New York State Division of Parole. NY State Field Parole Officer – Manhattan and Brooklyn New York. Responsible for the community supervision of New York State Felons released from New York State prison. Responsible for the custody and incarceration of parole violators.
1987 – 1990 Resurrection House, Inc. Executive Director. Supervised personnel of a not- for-profit homeless and low-income agency. Responsible for the delivery of social and human services to homeless and at-risk families and children.
1983 – 1986 Special Services For Children, New York City. Child Protective Caseworker in Manhattan New York. Investigated state reports of abuse and neglect of dependent children within Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn New York. Provided protective and preventive services for at-risk families.
SPECIALIZED TRAINING
Substance and Alcohol Abuse Treatment
Critical Incident Debriefing
Crisis Intervention and Suicide prevention
Bereavement and Grief Counseling
Sexual Addiction and Offender Treatment
Play and Trauma Play Therapy with young victims of physical and sexual abuse
Guided Meditation
I hope you will not be offended. I had a huge counseling agency for 28 yrs in Richmond, Va. before selling it and now do consulting with many different agencies for children and families at risk and for other agencies. Just some suggestions. If you had an email I would send it that way vs the website but looks like anything can be posted including someone’s resume. I hope this is helpful. I am also an ordained minister and do consulting for churches etc. and have created a counseling institute and consulted for major hospitals such as HCA’s in and out of state. Also putting something more culturally sensitive on the site would be helpful unless you only work with Caucasians? I hope your staff is culturally rich. When I started my agency there was only one licensed African American in the area and I found him. I have helped to advance and promote many African American counselors and connect them as wonderful and powerful women and mean were drawn to counseling as a career and/or call.
Please correct the grammar and use of words like Depression Counseling, Anxiety Counseling. there is no such thing. It would be Counseling for: Depression, Anxiety, and Addictions. That would be far more professional in presentation.
The home page also has issues as marked below:
You may have an addiction to something (list possible addictions as SOMETHING is not descriptive and you need to encompass what you actually do FROM A LICENSING STANDARD vs non professional reference to SOMETHING?….YOUR AD SAYS YOU WANT A PROFESSIONAL DEMEANOR AND SO IT NEEDS TO START WITH YOUR OWN PRESENTATION OF YOURSELF) so to say- and no matter how hard you’ve tried to stop, you can’t – AND IT’S RUINING YOUR LIFE.
Stop trying to do it all on your own. It’s all fixable – you just need the right knowledge, the right tools, and the right guidance to make it through this. (Ending a sentence with this is not good grammar or sentence structure and would not be the way to write a professional report…..RIGHT GUIDANCE TO MAKE IT THROUGH THIS DIFFICULT TIME IN YOUR LIFE…..would be more appropriate.)
We know that life’s problems can (BE) overwhelming. (LEFT OUT A WORD) You may be staring right at a mountain and be thinking, “How in the world can I climb this thing?” (THING IS NOT A GOOD REFERENCE TO A PERSON’S PROBLEMS AS IT IS MORE PERSONAL THAN A ‘THING’ AND THAT WOULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL DEMEANED TO SAY ‘THING’. EVEN IF SOME WOULD NOT ADMIT IT ON AN UNCONSCIOUS LEVEL BEING REFERRED TO AS HAVING SOMETHING THAT IS A ‘THING’ IS DISTANCING AND DOES NOT DRAW ONE INTO THE PROCESS OR CALL TO SOMEONE TO DEAL WITH AN ISSUE. CLIMBING A THING IS JUST A VERY UNPROFESSIONAL WAY TO FRAME SOMEONE HAVING ISSUES TO WORK ON OR TO RESOLVE….USING RESOLUTION, RESOLVE, ETC. “HOW IN THE WORLD CAN I EVER RESOLVE AND COME TO TERMS WITH MY CONCERNS, ISSUES, HURT, PAIN,” ETC…..ANY OF THOSE WORDS WOULD BE GREAT OR USE SEVERAL OF THEM.
GREAT LINE ABOUT “You can – but the key is that you don’t do it alone”. THE ONLY CHANGE WOULD BE THE KEY SHOULD BE FRAMED IN A POSITIVE STATEMENT AS THAT IS WHAT WILL STICK INSIDE. SAYING…..YOU CAN AND THEN YOU DON’T IS WHAT THE BRAIN HEARS AND SEES AND IS LIKE A DOUBLE NEGATIVE—–you can/but/don’t—confusing the positives and BRAIN RESEARCH PROVES THIS……SO SAYING-
“You can….and the key is confidentiality and going through this with someone that is present just for you”. There is built in trust in our counseling relationships and you can be assured you will never hear what you say or be told that it is nothing to worry about.
So you have a sentence about the KEY being positive and about it being confidential and then a sentence that talks about trust to reaffirm the Key and then you can use a detracting word like nothing…. Basic ways the brain works.
Whether you need help facing a crisis or even if you want to strengthen the solid life skills (IF ONE’S SKILLS ARE SOLID?? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?? THEN WOULD ONE EVEN BE READING YOUR WEBSITE? BUT SAYING EVEN IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A CRISIS OR SOMETHING TO RESOLVE IN AN IMMEDIATE WAY BUT WANT TO STRENGTHEN YOUR SKILLS OR YOUR RESOLVE THEN CALL US FOR BRIEF COUNSELING) you already have, Thriveworks Richmond is here for you!
Make positive changes today! (AWESOME)
Greetings,
Thank you for the feedback! We always appreciate it — both positive and negative!
We have actually gone through and made a lot of the grammatical changes you recommended!
Regarding ethnic representation. We agree with that also, and will be updating the website more to fix this!
Warmly,
Thriveworks
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