The Center for Counseling and Health Resources: A Whole Person Focus

The Seattle-based Center for Counseling and Health Resources, Inc., founded by Dr. Gregory Jantz, concentrates its efforts on treating clients coping with addictions, dysfunctional relationships, and the effects of trauma and abuse. In all its work, the Center keeps its focus on working with the whole person, seeing each client as an individual with a unique history and a distinct combination of physical, medical, and emotional needs. Through its comprehensive diagnostic assessments, The Center for Counseling and Health Resources aims to provide its clients with information that will serve as a starting point for making positive changes in their lives.

Following recent wider trends toward patient-centered care in its holistic approach, The Center for Counseling and Health Resources devotes the time necessary to creating a treatment program tailored to each individual. Whole-person care follows the best practice of looking at every aspect of a client’s environment, including often-neglected social, nutritional, and spiritual factors.

Whole-person medicine, often known as integrative care, supports simultaneous and mutually enhancing approaches and treatment modalities that most effectively assist each patient. In addition, whole-person care attempts to identify underlying causes and stresses that lead to unhealthy situations and behaviors, and then to encourage each individual’s capacity to heal him or herself. Because no two people are alike, the causes of similar health situations can be very different, and no two treatment paths will be the same.

The type of respectful, integrative care provided at The Center for Counseling and Health Resources recognizes the uniqueness of each patient. The organization aims not simply to manage the presenting condition, but to create healthy new underlying patterns that will enable every client to break free of past traumas and addictions to become the person he or she was meant to be. With a focus on building trust in a warm and accepting atmosphere, the organization promotes its core value: Recognizing the worth of every person, regardless of the issues he or she has faced in the past, and with an emphasis on finding the way to a secure and confident future.