GENERAL COUNSELING
I teach people to create and maintain healthy loving relationships. I teach parents to raise children in loving and effective ways. I teach couples to love and respect each other. And I teach individuals with self-esteem or addiction problems to love and respect themselves.
A NOTE ABOUT CHILD COUNSELING
I frequently counsel parents about how to help their children, and I occasionally help older teens survive their dysfunctional families, but generally speaking children don’t need therapy; they need parenting. A therapist cannot be the father, teacher, minister, or soccer coach that every child needs in his or her life. I am always glad to help a parent provide these things, but — with very few exceptions — the parent will be my client, not the child.
SPECIAL ISSUES COUNSELING
I provide individuals and couples with special services such as reunification counseling, co-parenting counseling, sex offender counseling, anger management counseling, and treatment for addictions or for chronic pain. I provide court-ordered alcohol and other drug assessments to people who need them, and I offer hypnosis and hypnotherapy sessions to clients who want them.
THERAPIES USED
I do therapy from a background of Twelve-Step Recovery, Reality Therapy, CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy), EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy), Solution-focused Therapy, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), and traditional hypnotherapy. (Long names for some pretty simple stuff!)
HOW TO CONTACT ME
To ask me any questions, or to make an appointment, just call me at (916) 725-4154 or email me at bburgmft@gmail.com. You can also find out more about me and, if you wish, leave a message at www.facebook.com/bburgmft.
I’m available for in-person appointments and for virtual appointments using the Zoom application. To meet with me for an appointment we’ve scheduled on Zoom, you’ll need to have filled out and returned paperwork that I’ll have previously sent to your email address. Just prior to our appointment I’ll text you a reminder that our session is about to begin. I’ll follow that with a Zoom email containing a link that you can click on to enter the session.
For those of you who, like me, prefer in-person sessions, my office is in Suite 1110-C of the Six Thousand Sixty Building at 6060 Sunrise Vista Drive, Citrus Heights, CA 95610. I’ve provided a map for you on the next page, but my wife suggests I just say that my office is two blocks east of Sunrise Mall and right behind Macy’s, and she usually knows best!
If you’d like directions to my office anyway, just click above on the Map Page.