Dick has studied and received training in a wide range of counseling, coaching, or therapy methods throughout the course of his career. He has personally experienced many of these psychotherapy or counseling approaches as a patient/client in order to acquire a strong sense of what a specific method actually feels like to his clients. This didactic and experiential approach to his career development has also given Dick a sense of the effectiveness of a particular method or approach. Dick’s preferred method of counseling is primarily cognitive behaviorally based while drawing from whatever other methods/approaches best increase the effectiveness of his client’s counseling experience. This results in an eclectic or varied approach that is structured and tailored to the needs of each client based on feedback from the client and observations made during the course of counseling. Dick believes that this approach is respectful of his clients and maximizes his client’s understanding of the process of counseling that they are experiencing.