Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
Description of me for clients
I am Les Brinson, and I am a Ph.D. licensed psychologist. As a service provider, I have been associated with mental health, counseling, and treatment agencies exclusively since 1961. In that 50+ year journey I have had responsibilities for everything behavioral from managing, teaching, and treating a wide range of clients including college students, residential placed teenagers presenting mostly with conduct disorders and cognitive delays to providing individual and group therapy to inmates in a local federal prison to a 40-year term as a university professor and department chair where I taught all of counseling and psychotherapy courses in the curriculum during my tenure. Essentially, I have always carved out time to provide counseling and therapy to clients which have always been my passion.
In terms of my mode or modes of counseling or therapy, at some point in my career, I have been an advocate and user of the more popular ones such as Client-Centered Therapy, to CBT to an approach that I have used successfully. I refer to it as “Systemic Psychotherapy”. Therefore, I consider myself a classic eclectic. In sum, I try to determine early on where the client is and then draw on my knowledge and experiences to employ a suitable effective, and efficient treatment approach to move the client to heal or rehabilitation as quickly as possible.
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Dr. Les Brinson is a Ph.D. psychologist who has devoted his career to mental health, counseling, and treatment since 1961. He brings more than 50 years of experience working across clinical, educational, and correctional settings, and continues to offer direct counseling and therapy to individuals.
Throughout his career he has held responsibilities for a wide range of behavioral work – managing programs, teaching, and providing treatment. His clinical experience includes counseling college students, working with residentially placed teenagers who primarily presented with conduct disorders and cognitive delays, and providing individual and group therapy to inmates in a local federal prison. He also served a 40-year term as a university professor and department chair, during which he taught the counseling and psychotherapy courses in the curriculum.
Dr. Brinson describes his approach as broadly eclectic. Over the years he has used well-known methods such as client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy, and he also practices an approach he calls Systemic Psychotherapy. Early in the work with each person he seeks to understand where the client is, then draws on his knowledge and experience to select an effective and efficient treatment strategy aimed at moving the client toward healing or rehabilitation as quickly as possible.
He is licensed to practice psychology in North Carolina; his professional registration is recorded as NC Psychologist 0388. Counseling and therapy have long been his passion, and he has consistently carved out time to provide those services throughout his professional life.
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