My Why: Edward Berry

Edward Berry creates a collaborative relationship between the counselor and the client. He has the belief that our thoughts are directly connected to how we feel. By working with clients to solve present-day problems it helps the client approach a stronger and healthier sense of self by focusing on the actual lived experience of a person. By helping clients gradually face and come to realize that their assumptions, evaluations and beliefs might be unhealthy and unrealistic. Having the client be aware even after they have learned to recognize when and where their mental processes have gone wrong, it can in some cases take considerable time or effort to replace a dysfunctional process or habit with a more reasonable and adaptive one.

Edward Berry is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Virginia. He graduated from Grand Canyon University in 2011 with a bachelor in Addiction Counseling and began working with high-risk individuals with addictions during his years of undergraduate study. Mr. Berry went on to earn his “Master’s Degree in Professional Counseling” from Grand Canyon University in 2015. Upon graduation Mr. Berry was recognized by faculty, staff and peers as demonstrating leadership and professionalism in the field of addiction counseling during his graduate studies.

In 2015 he began his clinical residency. He completed his clinical supervision and experience earning his LPC licensure in the state of Virginia. His clinical residency provided robust experience providing high quality mental health services to high-risk adults struggling with addictions.

Mr. Berry has continued his career over the last few years working as a Director of Addiction Recovery Services and providing outpatient counseling and therapy services to adults in private practice.

Mr. Berry attributes his success to his recovery, from which everything good in his life is a byproduct. He became involved in his profession because he is in recovery himself. Mr. Berry struggled with addiction for many years and did not graduate high school. At 16, he dropped out and did not return to school until he was 38 years old. Mr. Berry feels his most notable achievement is being in recovery. For someone who didn’t graduate high school, he has now earned a master’s degree, three state licenses and has owned his own business. Mr. Berry gives other people hope by sharing his experience. Mr. Berry’s motto is “It’s never to late to be what you might have been.”