Tony Daltoso is a Personal Psychological Consultant and Cognitive Behavioral Strategist, a counselor, relationship coach, father, husband, amateur philosopher, unpublished author, and that's just his current titles. He has also been a stand up comic, master of the custodial arts, car salesman, a failed athlete and a "Sad Panda."
Tony's Favorite Things....
Frequently Asked Questions
How long have you been a counselor?
I have been working as a counselor since 2010. I have been a fully licensed counselor since January of 2013.
But I have been a know-it-all walking encyclopedia of psychological advice listening to people's problems for over 30 years.
But I have been a know-it-all walking encyclopedia of psychological advice listening to people's problems for over 30 years.
Do you have a specialty?
I specialize in treating shame, emotional dysregulation, and relationships issues. This is what the majority of my training and experience has been in. My real interest is in helping my client's to make their emotions work for them instead of against them, and this is a focal point of much of my work with clients.
How do I know you are legit?
I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Washington. You can look me up on the WA State DOH Provider Credential Search Page. Being a Licensed Counselor means I have met specific requirements for education, supervised experience, and that I actually passed the National Counselor Exam, You can see my License and where I went to College on the About Tony page.
why should you be my counselor?
A great question. When selecting a counselor there are lots of factors to consider. The counselor's education? Do they have Experience working with people like you? Do they take your insurance? Do you even want to bother with insurance? Are they close by? Do they work with kids? But one of the most important things is fit. Feeling comfortable and compatible with your counselor predicts more successful outcomes in counseling. So peruse the rest of the website and see what you think of me. I may not be your cup of tea. That is OK. There is a counselor out there that is a great fit for you.
What is thinks i've thunk?
I have had a blog for years and years. In fact I may have invented the blog. Long before the internet I would write stuff in a note book and pass it around to all my friends to share. Even then, I have always called what I write Thinks I've Thunk. It's not exactly "topical" in that I would write about anything that might be on my mind (hence the name Thinks I've Thunk), but I like the name and it has some good stuff on it that shows my personality. You could say that blog is my alter ego (emphasis on the EGO) and I reserve the right to plausible deniability for anything posted on Thinks I've Thunk. I like it and want people to read it. So I hope you enjoy it.
So what exactly is a "Sad Panda"?
I have no idea. My friend Mac called me that at work. I assume it is a reference to my mystic aura of ancient wisdom reminiscent of the misty Tibetan highlands of the orient that the majestic Panda calls home. Mac and my co-workers said a lot of weird things about me. You can see more of the weird things they said about me here.
What is Psychobbitry?
Go here to find out.
What is with all the stuff you like from the 90's? You only look about 15 YEARS old.
Yeah, I get the 15 years old thing all the time. What can I say, I bath regularly in the Fountain of Youth and the on occasion the blood of the innocent. JUST KIDDING (on both accounts).
The truth, however hard to believe, is that I actually was born in the 80's. So I did a lot of living in the 90's. And I stopped watching TV circa 2005, so in a lot of ways I am still living in the 90s.
The truth, however hard to believe, is that I actually was born in the 80's. So I did a lot of living in the 90's. And I stopped watching TV circa 2005, so in a lot of ways I am still living in the 90s.
So what is the difference between Counseling , coaching and Consulting?
That's a great question and you can find a good explanation to that here. And you can take a quiz to find out which one you need here.
What exactly is ALignbacker?
Like any business enterprise, I have to have an officially licensed corporation that is registered with the state and IRS for tax purposes.
Alignbacker LLC is the name of my business. I have my own name, Tony Daltoso, registered as a trade name, because in my line of work it is always preferable to know you are working with real people not faceless corporations. I actually like the name a lot. It sounds like a football player, so it's aggressive and powerful. But It also evokes becoming an ally of people and backing them up to support them. I think that is a good description of what I do for my clients.
Alignbacker LLC is the name of my business. I have my own name, Tony Daltoso, registered as a trade name, because in my line of work it is always preferable to know you are working with real people not faceless corporations. I actually like the name a lot. It sounds like a football player, so it's aggressive and powerful. But It also evokes becoming an ally of people and backing them up to support them. I think that is a good description of what I do for my clients.
If that didn't answer your questions, You can check out my Old Myspace Profile Circa 2006.
(To be honest, not much has changed)
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| Eye Color:: | Hazel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hair Color:: | Brownish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height:: | 5'10" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite Color:: | Green | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Screen Name:: | ThinkTank Panel (of One) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite Band:: | TonyToni TonE' | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite Movie:: | Robin Hood Prince of Theives | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite Show:: | Cartoons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Your Car:: | 88 Olds. Cutlass Calais from my granny | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Your Hometown:: | Walla Walla, Wa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Your Present Town:: | Somewhere in the Midwest | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Your First Crush's Name:: | I think Ya'll know this one, given that I stood up on my desk and announced it in the middle of class | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Your Grade:: | Grad School | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Your Style:: | Only half as Smooth as I think I am | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| * . . Have You Ever . . * | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sat on your rooftop?: | I have a basement apartment, so that would mean Have I been in my upstairs neighbors, and We don't get along becasue we are both so loud. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kissed someone in the rain?: | Christina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Danced in a public place?: | The 2nd to last thing I'd ever do | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Smiled for no reason?: | The last thing I'd ever do. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Laughed so hard you cried?: | Laughed so hard I go a hernia, ask Ted Tuggle, he was there. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Peed your pants after age 8?: | I was 11 and It was one of those "dreaming I was in in the bathroom things" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Written a song?: | Yes, several, all about the Lord of the Rings, all written on one car ride across town. Ask Jaly. She thoroughly enjoyed "Gandalf the Grey" in particular. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sang to someone for no reason?: | I won't even sing for a reason. (except for the aforementioned Lord of the Rings Medley) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Performed on a stage?: | Alas, yes.I've brought to life these timeless characters: Banjo. Felix. Marmaduke Wellburn. Hilda Marchbanks. Yes they were all as pathetic as they sound. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Talked to someone you don't know?: | Unfortunatley yes. My worst nightmare come true on a daily basis. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gone out of your way to befriend someone?: | Yes, Dan Sheets, but only for his Frank Thomas rookie baseball card. Give me a break OK, We were only 10 years old. At 11 he moved away. At 14 he died. . | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Made out in a theatre?: | Christina always tries but....I mean not during Schindler's List or anything. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| If i were a ...: | lot taller, I'd be a basketball player | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I wish ...: | I was a lot taller. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| So many people don't know that ...: | I want to start a religious movement. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I am ...: | Practically useless for practicing the use of any practical practicality. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| My heart is ...: | probably clogged with cholesteral. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| If you could live in any other place, where & why? | I like it here, where ever I am at the moment. Maybe Wallowa Lake. |
| What animal best represents you & why? | A ferret. It just does. |
| What is the craziest thing you ever did? | i don't do crazy things. There is a perfectly rational explaination behind each and every thing I do. It just takes everal years of therapy to figure out what it is. |
| If you could meet anyone, who would it be & why? | No one, I don't like meeting people. |
| If you could go back in time & live in any decade, which would it be & why? | Uhm, I'm still living in 1992/93. |
| If you could have any superpower what would it be? | Flying, or maybe invisibility. Either way i could avoid people. |
| Whos is your ultimate celebrity crush? | It was Debbie Gibson, then it was the tomboy chick on Step By Step, untill coincidently Debrah Gibson came out of nowhere to guest star as Christy Rose, on Step by Step, at which point It was Debrah Gibson again. A much too long infatuation with Tyra Banks ended when she started ANTM( how could soething so right go so wrong so fast, Dam). Now I hate celebrities. Scrap all of that , I just caught a rerun of Saved By the Bell THE COLLEGE YEARS!! Tiffani Amber Thiesen is it!! You may know her better as Vallerie Malone from 90210 or from that one wierd undercover show with BIll Bellamy and the token White Matthew McConaghey-wanna -be -Bad-ass-white-guy, but she will alwasy be Kelly Kapowski in my heart! |
| What color best represents you? | Grey |
| What would your life's theme song be? | It is Bust a Move by Young MC |
| Who would you cast to play you in a movie? | Me |
| What celebrity best represents your vision of fashion? | Any rapper circa 1992 |
| What would your life movie be called? | A trilogy: The Fellowship of the Tony, The two Aubrey's, and the Return Of the Catholic. We have been in preproduction for over 7 years now. |
| What is the greatest music video of all time? | Michael Jackson's Jam, featuring Michael Jordan, Heavy D, Kid and Play, and Kriss Kross amoung others, circa 1992, (I told ya'll I ain't making this up) |
| If you could star in any t.v. show, which one would it be? | I'd take Jerry's place on Seinfeld, or in a Fresh Prince of Bel Air backwards, "the Neato President Elect of Harlem." |
| What vehicle best represents you? | The one I drive is a pretty good match. 1988 Oldsmobile Cutluss Calais 2 door, that has been beat to hell by my little brother and then given to me by my granny because she can't drive. |
| If you could bring back 1 famous person from the dead for a day, who & why? | I 'm not into Zombies no matter how famous they are. |
| If you became president, what would you do first? | Explore the White House, and Jump on the bed in the Lincoln Bedroom. Put up my Michael Jordan Posters in the Oval Office. You know make my self at Home,... Oh you mean as President. End all wellfair programs immediatley and let that money fund a nationalized single payer healthcare system. Transition all the now obsolete insurance companies into banking institutions (since all they do is leverage instant capital for residual profit anyway.) raise interest rates and cut small business and income taxes. Place tarrifs on all goods and services produced by labor outside the US. Run and Win re-election. Abolish the House and Senate, and Proclaim myself American Emperor and establish the unending Daltoso Dynasty. Legalize Marijuana and tax the hell out of it. Proceed to Annex Mexico, Central America and any South American Nation that wants to drop the illegal cocaine trade to grow weed legit. Change our currency to "the Tony" and make it out of recycled plastic grocery bags. Outlaw the use of gasoline engines in passenger vehicles, cover the entire state of Nevada with solar panels, drasticly cut emissions, and turn the thermostat down to 68 degrees in the White House before I paint it green. |
| If you got one tattoo, what would it be? | I don't tat |
| If you were on MTV's Made, what would you ask to be? | A basketball player |
| Who do you think is the hottest athlete? | Me after I'm Made! |
| Who do you think is the hottest actor/actress? | The stuning young brunnette of the moment. It was Jennifer Connely, then Shannon Elizabeth, then Jesica Alba, Now it;s that Megan Fox chick from Transformers. Of course you know my heart only truley beats for Kelly Kapowski. And my wife (she counts she's very dramatic). |
| Who do you think is the hottest musician/singer/rapper? | NOT lady Gaga. (gag-gag). |
| Who do you think is the hottest t.v. reality star? | Reality TV is the ungliest (yes I mean ungliest, as in Ungly) word in the world. If yo have Reality TV in your name or title, it means you have either herpes or a staff infection or both. It does. It's a fact. |
| What sport best represents you & why? | "I'm thinking of a number ....." Completely up to dumb luck. No skill involved what so ever, but you sure try like hell to mind read even though you know it's impossible. That is what I'm like. |
| What is your most missed memory of childhood? | He-man. and riding my inflateable Battle Cat. |
| What is your greatest accomplishment? | What have I accomplished... I mean really?? |
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Well after all that, if you still have questions, Go ahead and ask...
Photos used under Creative Commons from designshard, Serge Saint
