About Chuck
About Chuck
About Chuck
I’ve spent more than 25 years counseling, teaching, training, and exploring a question that continues to interest me: What actually helps people change?
I’ve spent more than 25 years counseling, teaching, training, and exploring a question that continues to interest me: What actually helps people change?
Before becoming a psychotherapist, I worked in education and criminology, taught high school and college students, and led workshops on emotional development, mind-body practices, and personal growth.
Before becoming a psychotherapist, I worked in education and criminology, taught high school and college students, and led workshops on emotional development, mind-body practices, and personal growth.
What I’ve Learned Along the Way
What I’ve Learned Along the Way
What I’ve Learned Along the Way
One thing I’ve learned is that the ways people adapt to difficult experiences can be remarkably intelligent—even when those adaptations eventually begin to limit their lives.
One thing I’ve learned is that the ways people adapt to difficult experiences can be remarkably intelligent—even when those adaptations eventually begin to limit their lives.
What once helped someone survive may later interfere with feeling present, connected, confident, or fully alive.
What once helped someone survive may later interfere with feeling present, connected, confident, or fully alive.
What once helped someone survive may later interfere with feeling present, connected, confident, or fully alive.
My work draws from trauma psychology, attachment and human development, experiential and body-oriented therapies, memory reconsolidation, and clinical hypnosis. But I’m less interested in applying a particular technique than in discovering what will actually be useful to the person sitting across from me.
My work draws from trauma psychology, attachment and human development, experiential and body-oriented therapies, memory reconsolidation, and clinical hypnosis. But I’m less interested in applying a particular technique than in discovering what will actually be useful to the person sitting across from me.
Some of my most important teachers haven’t been clinicians or academics. They’ve been relatives, mentors, and other people with extraordinary capacities for attention, connection, and understanding—sometimes with people, sometimes with animals. They taught me something about presence, balance, and wisdom that professional training alone couldn’t provide.
Some of my most important teachers haven’t been clinicians or academics. They’ve been relatives, mentors, and other people with extraordinary capacities for attention, connection, and understanding—sometimes with people, sometimes with animals. They taught me something about presence, balance, and wisdom that professional training alone couldn’t provide.
What I’m Like to Work With
What I’m Like to Work With
What I’m Like to Work With
I tend to be active, curious, collaborative, and direct. I take people’s difficulties seriously without assuming that therapy itself must always be solemn.
I tend to be active, curious, collaborative, and direct. I take people’s difficulties seriously without assuming that therapy itself must always be solemn.
Sometimes humor, surprise, or a willingness to question the rules we’ve been living by can open a door that more analysis won’t.
Sometimes humor, surprise, or a willingness to question the rules we’ve been living by can open a door that more analysis won’t.
I’m interested not only in helping people suffer less, but in helping them develop a different relationship with themselves—and discover what they want to make of their lives.
I’m interested not only in helping people suffer less, but in helping them develop a different relationship with themselves—and discover what they want to make of their lives.
A Few Other Things
A Few Other Things
A Few Other Things
I’m a New Orleans native, best friends with the neighborhood black bear, and a lover of all French fries, jazz and funk, J. D. Salinger, and the smell of fresh mint. I live with my family in Western Massachusetts.
I’m a New Orleans native, best friends with the neighborhood black bear, and a lover of all French fries, jazz and funk, J. D. Salinger, and the smell of fresh mint. I live with my family in Western Massachusetts.
And you don’t have to vote, love, identify, worship, or order pizza the way I do to be welcome here.
And you don’t have to vote, love, identify, worship, or order pizza the way I do to be welcome here.
Chuck Genre, LMHC, LPC
Chuck Genre, LMHC, LPC
Licensed Psychotherapist · Integrative Coach · Clinical Hypnotist
Licensed Psychotherapist · Integrative Coach · Clinical Hypnotist