About
Christopher
Christopher is extensively recognized for his modern, results-driven and direct approach with high profile and high achieving clients, industry leaders, and business professionals while enhancing their inter-personal relationships, ability to be successful leaders, spouses and overall confident individuals. Christopher works with highly achieving individuals to manage a beneficial work/life balance and to operate at an optimum level while confronting difficulty or personal fears or anxiety.
Christopher is frequently contracted by clients and businesses to help them navigate through the current difficult positions of their careers, personal lives or existing business matters.
Christopher’s approach delivers lasting change efficiently whether it is an individual, small business, startup business or corporation. His results driven methods are customized for busy professionals seeking transformative outcomes at home, in the boardroom and in their everyday lives.
Specialization
Christopher has been coaching, mentoring, and providing business consulting for over twenty-five years to sales teams, fortune 500 companies, startup companies, franchises, small/medium business owners and more on a national, global and international scale.
Christopher has most recently expanded his wealth of knowledge and expertise into the counseling profession where he works with couples, high profile clients, industry leaders, professional athletes (NBA, NFL, NHL, NCAA, and more), business professionals, business owners, and others looking to improve their overall lives, relationships, family problems and more. Christopher has also worked with celebrities from the entertainment industries (film, television, movies).
Christopher has his limited license as a professional counselor in the state of Michigan with additional states to follow. Christopher is available for mentoring, life coaching and consulting in all 50 states and in any country around the world.
Counseling Specializations
- Individual counseling
- Couples and marriage counseling
- Relationships and dating
- Men’s issues
- Parenting issues
- Work life balance
- Divorce
- Professional goals
- Life phases (empty nestors, retirement, aging, relationship changes and more)
- Adulting issues (work, marriage, parenting, dating, work/life balance, professional goals and more)
- High school, college and professional athletes that are dealing with the pressure of their status/stardom and with their on and off the field issues
- Human sexuality (sexual function, erotic patterns, intimacy issues, sexual development)
- Couples’ issues (open relationships, swingers, cuckolding, and more)
- Pornography addiction
Business coaching, mentoring, and business consulting Specializations
- CEO’s, vice presidents, directors, managers, and more
- Individuals looking to reach a specific level within their corporation or new levels in their personal career
- Individuals who are commission based: real estate professionals, stockbrokers, mortgage brokers and more. The pressure of the sale and closing the leads
- Guidance with a specific career path
- Changing careers or shifting gears within a specific industry
- Pressure of business ownership
- Startup business professionals
- Business growth and expansion
- Businesses growing too fast to manage
Methodology
Christopher uses a blend of Solution Focused Based Therapy (SFBT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), and Humanistic Theory to find real world solutions and to address each client’s unique circumstances.
Christopher is dedicated to working with all clients who may be looking for a straight-forward and more
direct approach to their therapeutic needs. He enjoys helping couples navigate through all stages and
junctures of their relationships by addressing root causes and overall goals of the couple.
Christopher’s real-life approach addresses mental health, career challenges, life transitions, personal
goals, and the client’s overall well-being.
Christopher breaks mental barriers, fosters personal growth and helps his clients achieve success. His solution-focused approach delivers lasting change quickly, potentially without lengthy time commitments. His modern results driven methods are tailored for busy professionals seeking transformative outcomes.
Solution Focused Based Therapy (SFBT)
Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) is a short-term, goal-oriented, and collaborative therapeutic approach that helps people find solutions to their problems. It’s based on the idea that people are experts on their own lives and have the resources to find their own solutions. SFBT can help with a variety of issues, including anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and self-esteem.
some of the key aspects of sfbt
- Focus on solutions
- Strengths-based
- Goal directed
- Compliments
- Exception questions
- Scaling questions
- Presupposing change
- Coping questions
- Goal developing questions
- The miracle question
The three major principles of SBFT are focusing on solutions, highlighting the client’s strengths and resources, and creating a vision of a preferred future by the client. Christopher uses these principles to guide his clients to build on what is already working for them in their everyday lives. Christopher’s clients have the strengths, resources and the ability to resolve any challenges that they face in life. Change is always possible and is happening every minute of every day.
choosing an expert
There are a lot of people who use the word or title “life Coach”. The distinct difference when choosing Christopher compared to the other coaches is that Christopher pulls from his expertise and knowledge as a licensed counselor and accomplished business professional. Many people refer to themselves as “life coaches”, but Christopher combines is counseling and business education to help others progress to newfound heights.
Additionally, Christopher is a limited licensed counselor and is required to maintain the highest professional and ethical standards in the industry.
Education
Christopher completed his master’s in clinical counseling from the University of Phoenix. He holds a master’s in business administration from Tiffin University. Christopher’s undergraduate degree is in business management and finance from Western Michigan University. Christopher is currently working on his PhD in Organizational Leadership and Business Management.
Christopher is presently certified as a Limited Licensed Mental Health Counselor and continues to speak and promote men’s mental health awareness to eliminate the stigma of men and therapy and to promote mental health awareness on a global scale for all individuals.
Philanthropy
Christopher is working to promote men’s mental health on a global scale. Christopher wants men to break through the barriers and stigma of men seeking counseling and mental health treatment. Christopher wants to change individual thoughts, beliefs, judgements, and viewpoints about men and mental health.
Telehealth and
Onsite Services
Christopher understands that you have beyond busy schedules and that making it to his office may not be realistic. Christopher offers telehealth (video conference) services using HIPAA compliant platforms. For an additional fee, Christopher will come to your office, home, or other designated location if you do not have access to technology and your schedule will not allow for a visit to his office.
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