William K. McDonald PLC

Whether your search for a therapist stems from

• a specific crisis,

• a chronic long-term problem,

• a deep desire to live life more fully,

• or all three - take a look here.

Here is the kind of therapy you want, when therapy is what you need. I love my work, and have been doing it well 41 years now. My skills best represent the human side of the therapist’s art - caring, flexible and open, yet competent and professional.

Take a look inside this website. There’s a lot of information here to help you get to know me better and for your own use to enrich your life.

It represents help for you to accomplish that creative combination of

(a) what your heart desires, and

(b) what is right for you.

Bill McDonald

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Types of Counseling

Individuals: You may be going through a specific crisis or difficult life transition. Maybe you're suffering from a chronic long-term dysfunction and want to finally make some healthy and/or necessary changes in your life.
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Couples / Marriage: Only within the last half century has couples or marital therapy become a distinct discipline of its own. (Notwithstanding, some of the secrets of good marital counseling have been around for hundreds or thousands of years.
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Children / Adolescents: Counseling Children and Adolescents is a distinct therapeutic art in itself.
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Bill McDonald's Newsletter

A Matter of Life Change

The other day, I pulled from my living room bookshelf a small volume I’d long forgotten - a small paperback with a blue cover by the American poet, William Stafford, with the title “You Must Revise Your Life.”[1]

I don’t remember when or why I purchased it, perhaps Robert Bly had mentioned it. And strange I didn’t write (always in pencil) inside the cover the date I first read it. But I know I read at least part of it, because I had checked or underlined particular parts in pencil - my way of marking a book as my own. Like an animal marking it’s territory. Like a church procession on Rogation Sunday[2], walking the boundaries of the parish. Like a priest with candle and incense (or holy water) blessing each room of a house.

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Whether you are a client or not, you can always benefit from some free monthly words of wisdom:

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The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth. -Henry Beston, naturalist and author (1888-1968)

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