Counselor helps people live as they really are

Each Wednesday, the Scottsdale Republic profiles a Northeast Valley business person.

Name: Albert Clayton Gaulden.

Title: President, founding director of the Sedona Intensive.

Age: 70.

What I do: I help people shatter molds of misconceptions about who they are, set from adolescence through adulthood, and aid in the emergence of the person that they authentically are. Then I give them a set of strategies for how to maintain the real them.

I lecture internationally on subjects that shape and define the world view - global economic fears, relationships (personal and professional), and religion vs. spirituality.

I'm also an author. Simon & Schuster is releasing my third book, You're Not Who You Think You Are: A Breakthrough Guide to Discovering the Authentic You, this month.

About my business: The Sedona Intensive is a boutique, one-on-one transformational process that uses traditional psychology, life history, meditation modalities, yoga, Network Chiropractic, pilates, hiking, massage and open 12-step meetings to determine what lies at the bottom of the client's addiction and compulsions, fears, grief, overeating, manic shopping - whatever stands in the way of him or her living as who they really are.

What I've learned in business: The astro-intuitive tool that I use in the Sedona Intensive has been much more effective for my clients who have tried traditional treatment centers, or typical psychotherapy, because the Jungian birth chart allows me to know the client immediately and hence a quicker response to what we are trying to accomplish than with other modalities.

I know that my clients maintain wellness longer than other forms of counseling, because the intuitive bridge they create between them and me is paramount to finding what is causing the psychoses and/or debilitating disturbances.

Goals: I would like to help as many people as possible understand that they hold the key to opening the door to mental, emotional, financial and spiritual wellness. The therapist merely holds the space for discovery. I would like to write more books and continue to reach masses through teleconferences, radio and television.

What community I live in: Sedona.

Affiliations and volunteer work: Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Light Foundation Scholarship Fund, and various private charities and organizations that I support anonymously.

Where I grew up: Birmingham, Ala.

Family: Two brothers, three sisters, nieces and nephews, and thousands of close clients and friends who have become my extended family.

Favorite film: The Razor's Edge (1945 version) and Witness for the Prosecution.

Favorite book: The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho.

First concert: The Messiah, Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Madama Butterfly starring Dorothy Kirsten.

Company Web site: www.sedonaintensive.com.

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