Encourage Encounter LLCEncourageEncounter’s expertise derives from our experience as therapists and crisis workers, and our understanding of contemporary neuroscience and psychology. We have crafted a collaborative program to help clients who feel Stuck? We do not offer traditional therapy services.

What do we mean by Stuck? We focus on one issue at a time. We might focus on the challenges of planning Thanksgiving and dealing with family but might find “I feel stuck in my marriage” a topic potentially too broad and involved for our 2 to 3 session workout program.

Our workout program consists of two parts. The first part - Collaboration Preparation and Setup - starts with an hour an overview of our approach to helping clients shift from Stuck? to Move! We show client how to make the most of our workout sessions. This part of our program can also be helpful to those who make use of traditional therapy or who engage other support professionals, such as counselors or life-coaches.

The first part also includes a half hour planning session to set up the collaboration. How are you stuck? What does move look like to you? Is our approach the most appropriate for your particular challenge?

After this first part, clients might find they prefer talk-therapy approaches. We might recommend traditional therapy. We find mutual agreement and understanding create a very strong foundation to begin the work of resolving specific challenges.

The second part - Collaborative Workout Sessions - usually takes two to three sessions (one hour each). Together, we develop an understanding of the specific challenge. We uncover and explore a client’s natural wisdom and vitality for such circumstances. Finally, we make use of these capacities to work out of Stuck? and shift to Move!

Encourage Encounter LLCAfter the workout sessions are complete, we recommend clients take a personalized workshop. This workshop examines the process of workout and shifting to Move! Workshops help clients:

  • Gain a greater awareness of their skills and capacity to resolve distressing experiences.
  • Develop a thorough understanding of the process of Stuck? … Encourage … Encounter … Move!
  • Discover the nature of their highly personal desire for Productivity, Vitality, and Wholeness - desires which provide the energy and direction needed to get unstuck.
  • Gains greater sensitivity to feeling Stuck?
  • Learn how to gather courage and seek encouragement for others.
  • Improve the capacity to stay within an encounter of distressing experience.
  • Recognize how to change the distressing experience so they feel as if they shift from Stuck? to Move!

Please contact us with questions or if interested:

Our rates for new clients:

  • Collaboration Preparation and Setup: $300
  • Workout Sessions: $700, plus $250 per hour after 3 hours
  • Personalized Workshop: $400, plus $250 per hour after 2 hours

We also offer the combination of Collaboration Setup, Workout Sessions and Personalized Workshop for $1000 plus $200 per hour after 5 total hours of workout+workshop time. We refund $800 if, after the collaboration preparation and set up, either the client or EncourageEncounter choose not to begin the workout sessions.

Our rates for returning clients:

  • Hourly rate: $250 per hour, no minimum.
  • Workout Sessions + Personalized Workshop: $600 plus $200 per hour after 3 hours.

We meet with clients either through Skype or other video services or in our offices in St Louis. We also travel to other cities throughout the year to offer Workout and Workshop sessions. We charge supplemental $100 per hour for meetings outside St Louis. If you’d like to be notified when we travel to a city near you, please sign up…