Fr. Adam Roberts, M.T.P.C.
No cookie-cutter therapy – You are unique.
When I work with you, I help you navigate not only your current external struggles (relationships, work, life activities), but your inner world, which affects everything about how you are showing up in your life in all those categories. Our work together will include looking at how your story has shaped how you feel, relate, and move through life. We will identify deeply held beliefs (often unconscious) that may get in the way of a more gratifying life. You are unique, so I will tailor my work to most effectively affect your growth. Some clients love to read, so I will leverage that for their benefit; others, not so much, so I would not burden them with reading suggestions.
Music, movies, culture, philosophy, theology, my journey – anything that my experience tells me would be most useful to you I will harness to promote your progress.
We travel this road together.
I have found that clients benefit when the counselor assumes the role of a fellow sojourner rather than the I-have-it-all-together expert. So, while I always maintain professional standards, I work to break down the professional distance espoused by some approaches. In the end, an actual human, caring relationship becomes the context of healing and growth in the counseling process.
Relationships involve two people, not one.
Couples come to me with a myriad of issues, but there are common themes. Most problems involve trust issues, intimacy, and communication. Being deeply heard and understood by your partner is a beautiful feeling, and the lack of feeling truly heard is excruciating, often becoming intolerable. I will teach you how to make your partner feel deeply heard and how to ask for the same in return. Couples counseling has a catch: you cannot “fix” your relationship without fixing yourself. There is only one kind of healthy relationship on the planet – a relationship between two healthy people. So, I challenge couples to look at whatever they may bring to the relationship that contributes to the lack of a healthy, gratifying relationship.
Hello, I am Adam.
Preparing for your next ‘season’…
Mentoring individuals, couples, and executives in many areas of their lives but who want guidance toward increasing wholeness and growth is my passion. Becoming liberated from toxic fear and shame helps you live the next season of your life with even more purpose and authenticity. Understanding your core strengths, root issues, and besetting roadblocks can launch you to new heights in every area of your life.
Here’s the boring stuff: I hold advanced degrees in Theology (University of Balamand, 2017) and Counseling (University of Balamand, 2020) and have read lots of books (a few of them worth reading and might be recommended to you if you like to read). I have been in full-time ministry since 2014 and pastoring a small local church since 2021.
But the truth is, I genuinely believe my effectiveness as a counselor comes not as much from my formal training as from the ongoing openness to examining my own life, learning from literature, music, and meaningful conversation with others. I have learned as much from my clients over the years as they have learned from me. And I plan to continue that pattern. Learning, in every category of life, is central to who I am, and I hope to infect my clients with that condition.
Here is the less boring stuff: We all have addictions. From age 7, I have been a movie addict. Since 2016, I have been making documentaries in a "run and gun" style. Watch my award winning documentary on abortion for free which received accolades from both sides of the abortion debate.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-kNZLm1VGuoh8-fQ_cJfWCF-AicmPnES
When I retire, I'm dreaming of traveling the world while making documentaries on strange pizza and cultural novelties.