Wellness-based counseling is based on the idea that counselors can help people to develop coping mechanisms, positive support systems, and healthy mental lifestyles and taking a person's cultural and family context into consideration.  Recovery-based counseling is based on the idea that people can begin "to re-experience a zest for life, not as it once was, but as it is in the present" (ACA, Counseling Today, March 2012, p. 60).  Along with this idea is that counselors can help people with "resilience-building techniques, or those emphasizing assets and resources, can allow clients to see their losses in a deeper, more three-dimensional manner...'the focus on resilience, strengths and positivity in counseling will be the wave of the future'." (ACA, Counseling Today, March 2012, pp. 60-61).

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Geri Burgess, MA, LPC, NCC - gburgesslpc@phoenixcentergadsden.com

The Phoenix Center is conveniently located at 750 Walnut Street in downtown Gadsden, across from Holy Comforter, in the old WGAD radio station building. Discrete parking is available in the rear parking lot. Please call (256) 459-4024 for an appointment.