Golden Thread Counseling, PLLC

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Therapy for Clarity, Healing, and Meaningful Transformation

Golden Thread Counseling offers a compassionate, client-centered space for individuals seeking emotional well-being, resilience, and deeper self-understanding. Our approach is integrative and grounded in both evidence-based practices and meaning-focused insight—addressing not only your current concerns but also the deeper threads that shape your inner world.

We believe that therapy is more than just problem-solving—it's an intentional process of discovery, empowerment, and transformation. Whether you’re experiencing anxiety, navigating a life transition, exploring your identity, or simply feeling emotionally overwhelmed, you don’t have to go through it alone. We’re here to walk with you.

Our Approach

At Golden Thread Counseling, we tailor each session to your unique needs, integrating a range of therapeutic modalities that support both practical goals and deeper reflection:

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) – Helps you identify and restructure unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors that impact your daily life.

  • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) – Supports short-term, goal-oriented change by focusing on strengths, resources, and desired outcomes.

  • Narrative Therapy – Encourages you to examine and reshape the personal stories that define your identity, empowering new possibilities.

  • Person-Centered Therapy – Creates a warm, empathetic space where your lived experience is fully honored and understood.

  • Existential Therapy – Invites reflection on deeper questions around meaning, freedom, responsibility, and authenticity.

  • Depth Psychology – Engages the unconscious, symbolic imagery, and shadow aspects of the self, inspired by Jungian principles and archetypal insight.

Together, these approaches provide a comprehensive, flexible framework for both healing and growth—grounded in science, enriched by story.

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Psyche. 1921. Robe doSoir

What We Work With

At Golden Thread Counseling, we support individuals through a wide range of emotional, psychological, and existential concerns. Each client’s journey is unique, but here are some of the common issues we help navigate:

  • Anxiety & Overwhelm
     Navigate persistent worry, tension, and overthinking with tools grounded in insight and emotional awareness.

  • Depression & Low Mood
     Address feelings of sadness, disconnection, or lack of motivation in a space that supports healing and renewed purpose.

  • Life Transitions
    Whether facing loss, change, or uncertainty, therapy can help you find clarity and resilience during life’s turning points.

  • Identity & Self-Exploration
     Explore who you are beneath expectations—your values, beliefs, and evolving sense of self.

  • Emotional Regulation & Inner Conflict
     Build awareness and develop skills to manage intense emotions, conflicting thoughts, or behaviors.

  • Existential Questions & Meaning-Making
     Reflect on life’s deeper questions—purpose, belonging, freedom, mortality—in a space that honors depth and personal truth.

  • Men’s Mental Health Matters Too
     We offer a supportive, pressure-free space for men to explore emotional well-being, identity, and growth without needing to “have it all together.”

  • Low Self-Esteem & Inner Criticism
     Challenge harsh inner narratives and cultivate a more compassionate and empowered sense of self.

  • Cultural, Interpersonal & Spiritual Disconnection
     For those who feel like outsiders or disconnected from community, culture, or self—therapy offers a place to belong, reflect, and realign.

A black and white line drawing of the Roman god Janus, depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions, seated on a chair. He has a beard, no shirt, and long robes. Janus is holding a key in his right hand and a staff in his left hand. The base of the statue is labeled 'JANUS'.

Janus. 1878. Engravings in Wood

The Meaning Behind the Name

Inspired by the Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur

The name Golden Thread Counseling draws from the powerful myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. In the ancient story, the hero Theseus enters a vast and dangerous labyrinth to confront the Minotaur—a creature symbolizing chaos, fear, and the unknown. Before his journey, Princess Ariadne gives him a golden thread to help him find his way back out.

This myth offers a meaningful metaphor for therapy.

  • The Minotaur represents the shadow—the painful, hidden, or unresolved parts of ourselves that we often fear or avoid.

  • Theseus is You, the client—courageous, capable, and willing to face what lies within.

  • The Golden Thread is the therapeutic process itself—a lifeline of support, insight, and connection that guides you through the complexity of your inner world.

At Golden Thread Counseling, we walk alongside you as you navigate your personal labyrinth—offering presence, perspective, and evidence-based tools to help you return with greater clarity, strength, and wholeness.

A classical painting depicting a woman in a yellow flowing dress and veil reaching out toward a standing man in a green tunic with a red cape and helmet, set against a dark background.

Theseus and Ariadne. 1818. Antoinette Befort