Our Vision

We envision a world that celebrates and encourages sacred, respectful and collaborative community.

The center has been offering counseling services in the D.C. area since 1991. The primary approach is narrative (the exploration of life stories and meaning) with an emphasis on mindfulness and self-awareness practices.

Inspiration

You can add up the parts

but you won't have the sum 

You can strike up the march,

there is no drum

Every heart, every heart

to love will come

but like a refugee. 



Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering 

There is a crack, a crack in everything 

That's how the light gets in.

-- From "Anthem," by Leonard Cohen

Welcome to the Center for Well Being

The Center for Well Being offers counseling services to individuals, families, couples and groups. We have found that a collaborative, respectful approach to this work is also the most effective. A person seeks counseling to address some problem in his or her life. But people’s lives have many stories, many colors. So the person is never the problem. Rather, the problem is the relationship we have with problems. In other words, we are not “depression.” We are not “anxiety.” We are not “addiction.” We are human beings who are born into families and cultures that are filled with stories and beliefs. We learn to see ourselves in the stories of our families and cultures and often learn to see ourselves and experience our worlds as problems to be solved. The work in counseling is an exploration of the way our lives have been shaped by these stories so that we can remember and re-generate the lives we really want to live.