Mary Walseth, LPC
"Mental Health Makeovers"
210-452-6416
mwalseth@satx.rr.com
Counseling for Individuals in Greater San Antonio, Live Oak, Universal City, Converse, and Schertz, TX
"Mental Health Makeovers"
210-452-6416
mwalseth@satx.rr.com
Counseling for Individuals in Greater San Antonio, Live Oak, Universal City, Converse, and Schertz, TX
My Own Life Lessons
I
come from a dysfunctional family with two alcoholic parents. I was the scapegoat
for my mother’s misery and the only one of us kids who was beaten and publicly
humiliated by her regularly.
When I grew up I went out into the world with no self-esteem, no idea of how to have healthy relationships, and no idea how to deal with my emotions. If I made mistakes I absorbed any criticism I got from anybody, thinking it proved they were right and I was a "wrong person." I didn't know how not to do that!
I was so confused in the world that I followed my parents’ example and began self-medicating with alcohol. In the 12 years I resorted to drinking things only got much, much worse. I made many unhealthy choices and several attempts at taking my life. I truly believed nobody cared because I didn't care about me.
Negative thinking was my co-pilot, and I got my self-fulfilling prophecy of unhappiness in full measure because I believed I could never be happy. I attracted many life difficulties based on that thinking. I had a lot to learn. The student was ready and the teacher appeared...
With the help of AA and regular counseling I learned that I had to take other people’s opinions of me out of the equation in order to learn to love myself and become who I really am. With these supports, I began to take charge of my life for the first time in my life. When I didn't believe I could love me, I trusted the process. It worked. I forgave my parents, but most of all I forgave myself.
Once sober, I went to college to study behavioral science. Twenty years after earning my BS, and after 25 years of sobriety, I went to graduate school for my Master's degree. I knew that the profession of counseling offered me a perfect way of paying back what I have received from those who never failed to throw me a lifeline. It's never too late!
Working with others to find their own truth is what gives me joy today.
A counselor is kind of like a lighthouse. The client is the ship on the stormy sea, finding his or her way through the black night to a safe harbor. A counselor can guide you to safety and happiness if that is your goal (and you probably wouldn’t be reading this if it wasn’t!).
All my clients receive my unconditional, non-judgmental regard and attention. It does not matter what brings them to counseling. We begin at where you are now. And remember: I have respect for you even if you don’t have it for yourself. Your healing is the most important thing in the world to me.
Don’t define who you are by the problems you have. I am here to help you discover the beautiful, if dormant, happy good person who has always been there inside of you!
When I grew up I went out into the world with no self-esteem, no idea of how to have healthy relationships, and no idea how to deal with my emotions. If I made mistakes I absorbed any criticism I got from anybody, thinking it proved they were right and I was a "wrong person." I didn't know how not to do that!
I was so confused in the world that I followed my parents’ example and began self-medicating with alcohol. In the 12 years I resorted to drinking things only got much, much worse. I made many unhealthy choices and several attempts at taking my life. I truly believed nobody cared because I didn't care about me.
Negative thinking was my co-pilot, and I got my self-fulfilling prophecy of unhappiness in full measure because I believed I could never be happy. I attracted many life difficulties based on that thinking. I had a lot to learn. The student was ready and the teacher appeared...
With the help of AA and regular counseling I learned that I had to take other people’s opinions of me out of the equation in order to learn to love myself and become who I really am. With these supports, I began to take charge of my life for the first time in my life. When I didn't believe I could love me, I trusted the process. It worked. I forgave my parents, but most of all I forgave myself.
Once sober, I went to college to study behavioral science. Twenty years after earning my BS, and after 25 years of sobriety, I went to graduate school for my Master's degree. I knew that the profession of counseling offered me a perfect way of paying back what I have received from those who never failed to throw me a lifeline. It's never too late!
Working with others to find their own truth is what gives me joy today.
A counselor is kind of like a lighthouse. The client is the ship on the stormy sea, finding his or her way through the black night to a safe harbor. A counselor can guide you to safety and happiness if that is your goal (and you probably wouldn’t be reading this if it wasn’t!).
All my clients receive my unconditional, non-judgmental regard and attention. It does not matter what brings them to counseling. We begin at where you are now. And remember: I have respect for you even if you don’t have it for yourself. Your healing is the most important thing in the world to me.
Don’t define who you are by the problems you have. I am here to help you discover the beautiful, if dormant, happy good person who has always been there inside of you!
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