Mission
Leveling Up Mental Health Treatment
We seek to use the natural strengths and competencies of geeks and gamers to support them in reaching goals and wellness in their lives.
The Geek and Gamer Counseling Alliance developed from the idea that mental health professionals are continually urged to find new ways to reach their clients. We must seek to connect with clients within their own unique culture and a current growing culture is individuals who identify as geeks and gamers. Geeks and gamers span all dimensions of sex, age, race, social class, physical disability, sexual orientation, and experience. However, these widely diverse individuals are unified into a cultural community that is steadily growing throughout the world. These individuals are joined together by their love of video games, comic books, fantasy, board games, card games, role playing games, and/or science fiction. They may further divide themselves within this culture into sub groups (i.e. FPS gamers or Magic fans) but they still have common characteristics, collective strengths, and inherent needs. Professionals in the mental health field are called to be responsive to the needs of their clients and community. Counselors can take advantage of the meanings and resiliency of the geek and gamer culture to establish a therapeutic alliance, to develop treatment interventions, and to help these individuals achieve a state of wellness. The Geek and Gamer Counseling Alliance was developed as a non-profit corporation to support these goals. The organization will conduct research, provide education and outreach, and support community and charity events to serve the geek and gamer culture in achieving mental health and wellness.
We seek to use the natural strengths and competencies of geeks and gamers to support them in reaching goals and wellness in their lives.
The Geek and Gamer Counseling Alliance developed from the idea that mental health professionals are continually urged to find new ways to reach their clients. We must seek to connect with clients within their own unique culture and a current growing culture is individuals who identify as geeks and gamers. Geeks and gamers span all dimensions of sex, age, race, social class, physical disability, sexual orientation, and experience. However, these widely diverse individuals are unified into a cultural community that is steadily growing throughout the world. These individuals are joined together by their love of video games, comic books, fantasy, board games, card games, role playing games, and/or science fiction. They may further divide themselves within this culture into sub groups (i.e. FPS gamers or Magic fans) but they still have common characteristics, collective strengths, and inherent needs. Professionals in the mental health field are called to be responsive to the needs of their clients and community. Counselors can take advantage of the meanings and resiliency of the geek and gamer culture to establish a therapeutic alliance, to develop treatment interventions, and to help these individuals achieve a state of wellness. The Geek and Gamer Counseling Alliance was developed as a non-profit corporation to support these goals. The organization will conduct research, provide education and outreach, and support community and charity events to serve the geek and gamer culture in achieving mental health and wellness.
