Russell Enright  MC, LPC, NCC

Russell is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Nationally Certified Counselor. He is also a member of the Quebec Board of Professional Counseling Psychologists. Russell began his training by earning a three year counseling certificate at the renowned Gestalt institute of Montreal. During that tenure, he worked as a crisis counselor and then as the director of crisis intervention for a non-profit government funded organization. After his relocation to Arizona, he completed his American accreditation by earning his Masters of Counseling degree at Arizona State University. Russell’s education and training focused on Systemic Family Therapy. Well versed in the implementation of several approaches of that model of assessment and intervention, Russell applies a systemic based approach to individual, couples, and family counseling. Russell currently splits his time between Anthony Russell Counseling and his ongoing pro bono work as a crisis intervention counselor with Devereux Foster Care. His more recent experience includes working as a child, family, and individual counselor at a non-profit community agency, working as a school counselor at a charter school for troubled youth, and facilitating therapeutic summer programs for toddlers that have been labeled as “disruptive and unamenable to treatment”. His current and on going experience includes treating adults, children, and families at Anthony Russell Counseling, facilitating parenting classes, facilitating group counseling, and advocating for child and parental rights with school boards and Individual Education Program review committees.

Russell’s dedication to serving the needs of his clients is without parallel. He strives to foster self-awareness, self-concern, and self-love by gently encouraging his clients to address, process and overcome problematic beliefs and feelings about themselves that are almost always born of their past. Concurrently, he strives to assist his clients in increasing their awareness of how their past interactions with others continue to influence their current interactions with others thus perpetuating their distress. Once this awareness has been honed, he assists his clients in replacing problematic interactions with healthy interactions. This change in how they interact with others allows for their emotional needs to be met, for their relationships to be fulfilling, and for happiness and contentment to become the foundation of their lives.

Russell refutes the popular theory that people who are experiencing emotional distress are inherently flawed. This theory, called “the Individual Deficit Model of Human Behavior”, has been the basis of Counseling Psychology since its inception. Believing instead in the axiom that “No Man is an Island”, Russell chooses to foster growth and emotional contentment in his clients by not only addressing their personal thoughts, emotions, and choices but by also addressing the effect that others have had on the development of their personal thoughts, emotions and choices. The results of this systemic approach to counseling not only benefit the client, but also benefit all of the people with whom they interact, all of the people that they love.