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For your information, Dr. Sparrow taught counseling for over 23 years in role as a full Professor of Counseling at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
Dr. Sparrow's Counseling Approach
Dr. G. Scott Sparrow, EdD, LPC-S (Texas) has been in practice since 1982, and was double licensed as an LPC and LMFT in Virginia before moving back to the Rio Grande Valley in 1999.
Dr. Sparrow is trained in various methodologies, including:
- Person-centered therapy, which is based on the importance of providing caring support for the client in the therapeutic process, and emphasizes the ability of each person to solve his or her problems with the proper support.
- Cognitive behavioral therapy, which involves assisting the client in redefining his or her way of thinking about life, and then taking new actions to express this new orientation.
- Psychodynamic theory, which is the theory that there is "unfinished business" from the past that need to be understood and dealt with before healing can take place.
- Dream analysis, based on over 40 years of personal and clinical experience. He has developed an approach to dreamwork—the FiveStar Method—which is widely used by coaches and clinicians around the world.
His training site at DreamStar Institute has dozens of papers and presentations on dream theory and analysis, of which the FiveStar Method is an example.
- Transpersonal counseling, which is based on the idea that almost every psychological “problem” involves some kind of spiritual cure along with conventional therapeutic methods. Dr. Sparrow endeavors to work with your own unique spiritual tradition, and he is familiar with the major religions, East and West.
- Systems-oriented marital and family counseling, which is based on the idea that many of our problems originate in, and are perpetuated by relationship dynamics. Dr. Sparrow works a lot with communication issues, infidelity, and marriages that have grown distant over time. He is currently rated as one of the "Three Best" marriage therapists in the area.
- Process-oriented group work, in which adults work on a variety of issues in a confidential setting.
For your information, Dr. Sparrow taught counseling for over 23 years in role as a full Professor of Counseling at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.