Counseling Services – Life Worth Living, LLC

Wallace K. Pond, Ph.D., LPCC

I offer both face to face and telehealth counseling services as an LPCC at Life Worth Living Counseling, under the supervision of a licensed professional counselor (LPC) . You can see my counselor profile here. Clients can access my practice portal here. To discuss therapy options, you may contact me at the number and email address below.

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My Commitment

If you need help and are ready to make a change. I’m here to support you:

  • manage emotions or strengthening primary relationships
  • cope with unpleasant symptoms
  • get your life back on track

No matter how difficult one’s situation, nor complex the issues, we can work together to define achievable goals that, once realized, can bring meaning, contentment and reward to life. If you’re unsatisfied but ready to take an active role in creating the life you want, strengthening your mental health and wellness in the process, I’m ready to help!

 (719) 781-6349
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Common Issues in My Practice

  • Anxiety & Depression
  • Trauma
  • Alcohol and other Drug Use
  • Executive Wellness
  • Life Transitions
  • Borderline Personality
  • Career Counseling
  • Family Conflict
  • Grief
  • Life Coaching
  • Relationships
  • Men’s Issues
  • Parenting

Client Focus

Male, Female, and Non-Binary, Groups, LGBTQ+, Executives and other Professionals, Culturally Diverse Individuals

  • Children, Teens, and Adults

Interests

  • Client Empowerment
  • Racial and Social Justice
  • Equity Diversity and Inclusion
  • Transformation
  • Wellness
  • Organizational Health
  • Advocacy

Treatment Approaches

Types of Therapy

  • Attachment-based
  • Coaching
  • Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
  • Dialectical (DBT)
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)
  • Emotionally Focused
  • Psychodynamic
  • Feminist
  • Integrative
  • Narrative
  • Person-Centered
  • Reality Therapy

Modalities

  • Individuals
  • Couples
  • Families
  • Groups
  • In person and Online

Personal Counseling Statement

I have come to work in counseling later in life after experiencing my own mental health challenges and significant life transitions. I view most client issues through a developmental, biological, and social perspective, believing that most behaviors and conditions are not pathological, but rather what would be expected in the client’s situation.

I take a non-judgmental and holistic-integrated approach, committed to the notion that we cannot separate mind, soul, and body when it comes to wellness and mental health. I believe in a person-centered approach to therapy, with the client as a co-equal in a shared journey toward self-efficacy, resilience, and a life worth living. I have learned that each client presents his/her/their own unique set of circumstances, history, proclivities, etc., and that an integrative approach (using and/or combining different therapeutic modalities) offers the most flexibility and likelihood of achieving therapeutic goals.

I have extensive personal experience with marriage and family systems, addiction, attachment issues, human development, life and career transition, coaching, multicultural dynamics, and educational approaches to behavioral change. I believe in integrated therapy, using Cognitive (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior (DBT) approaches, emotional catharsis, reality therapy, and client empowerment. I also work as a client advocate when appropriate, with full understanding that mental health outcomes are influenced by social and environmental context.

My primary motivation is to use my own experience, discovery, and healing to help others.