James Baranski

He is a most welcoming, kind, active-listening, got-to-have-a-plan", behavioral-action-suggesting counselor, best of the four over 70 years that I have met. He is friendly & concerned, with a smooth delivery of thoughts, ideas, and suggestions. I highly recommend, Jim! My life issues include 'fatherless' homelife, dominant mother, emotional and sexual abuse, and health comorbidities: chronic IDDM, HBP, High Lipids and Triglycerin, Heart surgeries, CHF, COPD, Complicated Grief Patterns, and Depression. Most would barely recognize their existence as I am well-able to diffuse, redirect, humor and defend my boundaries. One needs to earn any trust or confidence I may offer. As a consequence, I tend to isolate, avoid & redirect, remaining a resourceful, helpful, cohort and peer who is quite lonely, distant and quietly depressed. I do not maintain effective personal, community support systems, resulting in declining personal, social, spiritual, physical, & psychological health/death/life.

Jim is strictly a Cognitive Behavior Therapy specialist. I don't find CBT helpful as its a "one size fits all" therapy that has one answer to all of your problems: Change your thinking from negative to positive. This is a very basic approach to complex issues for people. I learn what I need to know from a CBT therapist in 6-8 visits or less. Jim is a good guy and I liked him lot, but I need more than a one trick pony for a therapist. I call CBT Conveyor Belt Therapy so I'm a bit biased.

Mr. Baranski is fantastic with children.

Great Listener and Very Friendly. Highly recommend to anyone.. though after years I realized we didn't work on issues but focused on daily stabilization. Not always helpful specially when in crisis..