Welcome to my website! I am one of six Marriage and Family Therapist Interns and Trainees who work for Windows of Hope Counseling Center (www.windowsofhopecounseling.org). We are supervised by Gary Henderson, licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #7053. Windows of Hope Counseling Center is a non-profit counseling agency offering affordable counseling on a sliding fee scale to individuals who live in or near the counties of Sonoma, Sacramento, and Placer. We have offices in each of these counties:
Sonoma County (2 locations): 820 Gravenstein Avenue South, Suite 200, Sebastopol, CA 95472 Placer County: 420 Folsom Road Suite C, Roseville, CA 95678 Sacramento County: 2011 P Street #101A, Sacramento, CA 95811
95 Montgomery Drive, Suite 202, Santa Rosa, CA 95404
My name is Christine Dufond. I have a Masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, and I am a counselor at Windows of Hope, working in both the Santa Rosa and Sebastopol offices. I work in the Santa Rosa office on Mondays and in the Sebastopol office on Thursdays. My emphasis and experience is in both couples counseling and individual counseling for adults and teens. My focus throughout the counseling process is to provide my clients with the support, guidance, insight, and tools needed to sustain them on their unique path of healing and growth. My role as a counselor is to help you: identify goals; heal/resolve/accept past wounds; align with your own innate strengths and abilities; and acquire new insights and skills to aid you on this journey.
My approach to counseling is to guide my clients to the awareness that the difficulty they are experiencing can be replaced with growth. All they have to do is choose growth and stay committed to the process. All difficulty in life is an opportunity for growth. We just have to decide that we are ready to move on from a state of stagnancy, negativity or despair to state of actively striving for and achieving growth. I believe that inside all of us is an innate ability to restore harmony and balance to our lives and grow in ways we may have never thought possible. Sometimes we just need some gentle, unbiased guidance (and sometimes a few new skills/tools) to free us from our often unconsciously self-imposed limitations and direct us to our own strengths, abilities, and inner light.
