If you were going on safari would you prefer a guide fresh out of the academy — or an old veteran who had already led thousands of successful journeys through the bush? If you chose the latter, you understand and appreciate the benefits of experience. Simply put, there's no substitute for experience when it comes to teaching effective, practical answers to life's challenges.

For more than 34 years, real-world experience has been patiently showing me what tends to help, and not help, clients find their way through personal difficulties. Along the way, clients and I have fashioned practical resolutions for all sorts of challenges emerging from:

People are a bit like snowflakes. Each of us is simultaneously unique, and the same as everyone else. Sharing many features with one another, each path through life is, nonetheless, certain to be full of surprises, unexpected elements, and plot twists. Gently navigating those inevitable twists, turns, and requirements of your unique life is a skill polished by experience.