Therapy, Counseling and Coaching
We are trying to lead the best possible life. What could be more important to a person with any sense at all. Socrates 470bce
Seamus O'Connor LMFT
Seamus O'Connor
Seamus O'Connor is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and Certified Life Coach. He has been in practice as a psychotherapist in California for more than 30 years and maintains an active practice and consultancy based in Southern California.
His psychotherapy practice focuses on mental health concerns arising from relational and professional challenges such as: Stress, Anxiety, and Addictive Disorders.
As a Clinical Member of California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT), he meets and exceeds the professional and ethical standards as set forth by his peers and professional licensing board.
What I Do
Psychotherapy
- Individual Psychotherapy
- Stress Management
- Cognitive Therapy (CBT/RET)
- Addiction Recovery
Coaching
- Career/Profession Coaching
- Values Clarifying
- Addiction Recovery Coaching
- Life Narrative Reframing
Seminars/Lectures
- Stress Management Lectures
- Workshops/Retreats - Values Clarification
- Small Group Seminars
- Addiction Recovery Retreats
Psychotherapy
Though skilled in more traditional psychodynamic therapy, depending on the situation, Seamus often favors the result-oriented approach of
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
- This is the therapy most often recommended for those suffering from stress-related disorders, depression, and anxiety.
- Cognitive Therapy is also highly recommended as a supportive therapy for those in recovery from drugs and alcohol addiction.
- It is efficient in that it is by nature short-term and effective in that it gets right to the problem and provides remedies speedily.
- The client in cognitive therapy learns skills that they can apply to many other areas of life outside of the specific issues for which they sought therapy.
Coaching
Career and Life Coaching
For those who find themselves in a quandary about Career or some other aspect of Life:
“I don’t know what Work I should be doing?”
“My Life/Relationship/ doesn’t seem to be going anywhere?”
“I have a longing to be creative but seem to be stuck.”
Seamus' skills as a Career & Life Coach can help them clarify their Goals and get them moving systematically towards these Goals/Objectives efficiently.
The rewards derived from this process lie in realizing accomplishments that previously were only dreams.
[Dreams are goals without legs]
Recovery Coaching
This is often found to be a useful adjunct to one's primary Recovery Program. It can help a person working on their recovery from an addictive disorder to discover other issues lying behind and driving the symptomatic addictive behavior.
Values Clarification
"Values" are those things in our life that are truly worth worrying about.
Without a clear scale of values, one tends to react to every urgency - whether it is worth it or not.
It is often essential and always valuable to discuss with a skilled life coach where exactly one's priorities lie.
We have a finite supply of energy and to be effective we need to budget that wisely.
Narrative Reframing
"It is not external events that distress us but our interpretation of their significance." [Epictetus., b. 55ce]
This ancient wisdom is as practical today as it was two thousand years ago.
My Narrative is the interface between what is happening and how my internal systems are reacting to it.
Together with Values Clarification, Narrative Reframing helps in resetting the course of our lives - especially when we are not living the life, we know we are capable of leading.
Lectures, Seminars, Workshops/Retreats
As a facilitator/lecturer, Seamus has led many seminars and workshops for groups interested in resetting their priorities and goals.