Hi, I'm Mac Partlow...
I am a real person with a real checkered history, a real life, a real relationship and real challenges of my own.
I value my bad boy past
even more than my good boy past because those times provided me with the greatest learning and growth.
I learned that those "bad boy" days was my own instinctive need to get out of the trap of feeling like I had to be a perfect good boy.
"Nothing human is foreign to me"
- Oscar Wilde
My counseling is based on a wellness model.
This means that
I am committed to the belief that you, the client, have an innate drive
towards health and growth, and the inner wisdom to make constructive
changes in your life.
Based upon assisting you with the problem you have
identified, I also believe in actively working with the whole of your life.
Sometimes that will mean that I will be a counselor and help you examine
the basics, such as relationships, work life and physical
well-being.
On this level I am often a coach, and attempt to provide you
with information and support when and how to accomplish standard life
tasks.
My practice includes a wide range of clients from late
adolescents to adults. I have the greatest
experience with gay male issues and gay couples relationship issues.
Life can't be about being perfect - that's what made your life stop working in the first place. It has to be about becoming and owning yourself as you truly are, and living life in a way that needs no apologies, guilt or shame. As Anne Wilson-Schaef put it so well, "See what you see, know what you know" about the good and bad of not only other people and circumstances in your life but also have the strength to own the good and bad about your own behaviors. Strong people can own their stuff. Weak people cannot.
