What's in a Name?: The Power of Resolve Counseling
- Jenna Orosco, LPC
- Jun 19
- 4 min read
Starting a business can be pretty stressful. One of the fun parts though is selecting the name for your business. What few words encompass what your business is? What values does you personally hold? What do you want clients to be able to take away from their time with you? This is how I ultimately settled on naming my business Resolve Counseling LLC.
Words matter. There is power in using words correctly, in labeling things honestly, in understanding their origins. Just as there is unfortunately power in mislabeling people or situations. Why do people choose the words that they do? What are they trying to convey, and why? Going beneath word choice can illuminate all sorts of motives and agendas that people hold, be they benevolent or malicious.
I debated my business name for quite awhile, but kept coming back to the word Resolve. The definitions of Resolve from ye olde dictionary are as as follows:
to come to a definite or earnest decision about; determine (to do something)
There is Resolve in choosing to start counseling. In researching therapists and making a number of phone calls to schedule an intake appointment. Anyone who has ever started therapy knows that it is a chore and often way more complicated than it should be. Plus, we are typically not at our best when starting therapy, and needing the stamina and mental wherewithal to sift through all the moving pieces to not only find a therapist but ideally find a good therapist for you can take a lot out of us. But, you are determined. You have Resolve.
to separate into constituent or elementary parts; break up; cause or disintegrate (usually followed by into ). Synonyms: reduce, analyze
Why have you come to counseling? What is going on? Sometimes something earth-shattering has happened, and sometimes lots of terrible things have happened, and often times we come to counseling because of one thing but begin to unpack all the little things that led us to this point. Whether you had a "good childhood" or a "bad childhood", your early in life attachments, messages, caretakers and experiences have impacted you. Your employment history, your schooling, your romantic relationships, your finances, your health have all impacted you. Living in a culture that runs on systematic racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, capitalism and misogyny impacts every single one of us.
Example: lets take the presenting problem, say anxiety, and Resolve anxiety into the parts that have created it.
to deal with (a question, a matter of uncertainty, etc.) conclusively; settle; solve.
What problems are you facing that you are trying to solve? Perhaps you are contemplating moving, job changes, what college to attend, getting a divorce etc. Sometimes we need to dig deep and unearth all the hidden roots of a problem, and sometimes we just need to settle on what solution feels best at the time. We need to set aside our desire for "the right solution" and the paralysis that can come from our fears of "making the wrong decision" and do our due diligence, research, listen to our gut and then just make a decision. Use the power of Resolve to solve a problem.
to clear away or dispel (doubts, fears, etc.); answer.
We all have hidden parts of ourselves. Those shadow parts that we fear make us unlovable and unworthy. The parts that tell us to hide ourselves for fear of what will happen if people get to know all of us. In other words, shame. Shame lives in secrecy, and really the only way I have found to dispel it is to shine a light on it. And that is one of the magical and powerful parts of therapy, when we ever so slowly show the parts of ourselves that we think mean we are crazy, or a terrible person, or a bad parent etc, and the therapist looks at those parts of us with compassion. We then learn to be compassionate with those parts of ourselves, to Resolve our inner fears about who we might be and instead fully embrace who we are.
Music. to cause (a voice part or the harmony as a whole) to progress from a dissonance to a consonance.
conductor and orchestra I am not a musician, (ask anyone who knows me!) but I love this idea. I love when things feel off in ways we can't fully describe, but then all of a sudden something shifts and that noise and static around us merge into a symphony! I don't find that the consonance ever lasts, maybe that is what makes it all the more beautiful and important to acknowledge. Resolve the various parts around you to make your music
noun- firmness of purpose or intent; determination.
Doing the work is not for the faint of heart. It is actual work and can be emotionally and physically exhausting. It's okay to take breaks. It's okay to not want to keep working. But, you have Resolve. You will let yourself breathe and rest, and then will pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and keep working on yourself. Why? Because it is important. Because you are the agent of your life, not your emotional outbursts or past traumas or narrow messages you were taught about yourself. Doing the work is better than not doing it, but you need a heck of a lot of Resolve to do it.
How can you start to utilize your Resolve?
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