Dylan Haas LPC

Almost There Counseling

I approach each client with an open heart, seeking to meet you wherever you are emotionally, spiritually.

In our work together my goal is to help you (re)establish a feeling of balance and harmony within your own life, following whatever path your experiences and personal goals suggest - always with the intent to increase your self-awareness.

Through self-awareness we have the opportunity for growth.

When we are unbalanced, we experience anxiety, a lingering sense of dis-ease – an awareness that something just isn’t right in our lives. Sometimes we know exactly what underlies this imbalance in our lives. Sometimes we cannot quite place our finger on the source, we just know that we don’t feel okay.

I approach counseling through an existential-humanist lens. We are all humans trying to navigate this brief life – we have fears and joys and traumas and anxieties and all manner of experiences that come to form and shape how we walk through life, for better and for worse.

The sense of balance and comfort we feel within our daily lives depends greatly upon the extent of our own self-awareness.

Dylan Haas

As a trauma informed counselor, I have significant experience working with alcohol and drug addictions. I work with clients experiencing difficulties in their primary relationships surrounding intimacy, vulnerability and codependence. Similarly, I have experience working with people struggling with their own relationship to sex, sexuality and sexual identity.

Much of my focus is working with men struggling with what it means to be a man in today’s world. Similarly, I focus upon the struggles of teens and adolescents as they navigate the difficulties of transitioning into the complex world of adulthood.

I also focus on clients experiencing the anxiety of transitioning out of a restrictive and domineering faith, hoping to embrace a more secular way of life - with an emphasis on ex-LDS.

Dylan Haas, LPC

I come to counseling later in life. After 20+ years toiling in corporate America as an engineer in the semiconductor industry, I am intimately familiar with the feelings of isolation, redundancy and despair that accompany trading ones autonomy for the “golden handcuffs” of precarious financial security.

I dedicated years of my life to academic achievement in the “hard” sciences of Physics and Applied Mathematics, ultimately attaining both a MS and PhD in Engineering, benchmarks that buoyed my pride and encouraged the type of intellectual elitism that corrupted my emotional and spiritual balance; I spent years forcing my emotional intelligence to the background while I forced myself to don the caricature of the intellectual elite.

Eventually the existential distress of this imbalance became too much. I made the significant change to focus on mental health counseling – on helping others find peace and stability within their lives.

I have walked through tragedy; I have my own relationships to grief and trauma – I have lost loved ones to suicide, to overdose, to drinking themselves into oblivion. I am intimately familiar with the sense of near-crushing burdens and responsibilities we often place upon ourselves in effort to simply maintain a precarious sliver of comfort if not security.

I am a human, just like you.