Proactive Change: How to make the changes you want

Psychotherapy, Life Coaching & Marriage Counseling with Serge Prengel

This website provides many tools to help you make changes in your life, work and relationship (see red rectangle in right column). It also provides information on personal sessions with Serge Prengel, in person in New York City or by phone.

There is an enormous difference between talking about what’s important to you, and actually doing something about it. Insight alone isn't much help if it doesn't turn into action. I help you make the changes you want, whether you have specific and concrete goals, or more subjective ones.

My work covers a continuum that ranges from coaching to therapy (for individuals and couples):

"Effective psychotherapy is not just about dealing with moods, or healing emotional wounds. It also entails heping people improve their ability to use the resources of their nervous system, and to live the life they want.

"Effective coaching cannot be divorced from paying attention to emotions: This would be like trying to program a computer while refusing to pay attention to the operating system."

[Excerpts from: Understanding how your brain works to improve your ability to make changes in your life]

As I work with you, I pay attention to what goes on behind the words you say -- the emotional content, the felt sense, and all the subtle elements that are a gateway to deeper meanings.

Connecting with you at this level helps me turn the session into an experience that you can learn from, much more powerfully than you would from a discussion or from advice giving.

What you learn from such an experience, you learn from inside out. It's not just the words that are important, it's the experience itself. Remembering the experience is what gives lasting meaning to the words.

"I believe that being proactive is not a mysterious quality that we have, or don’t have. It is a way of dealing with things, that we can develop and strengthen..."

[Excerpt from: Proactive vs reactive thinking]

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