Services
therapy... coaching... teaching... supervision... grief counseling
Individual and Couples Therapy
Thought Coaching
Grief, Loss & Transition Counseling
Spiritual Companionship
Clinical Supervision
Support Group Facilitation
Phone sessions available upon request.
Access to the Office Lending Library
Referral to Complementary Therapies
Optional Use of Expressive Therapy Techniques
Samples of Organic Essential Oils
The Integral Approach to Therapy
The integral approach is a model of delivering psychotherapy that is inclusive, making room for all perspectives of the human experience. It is an inquiry into what creates a complete, multi-dimensional life. This approach to self-inquiry cultivates health, facilitates psychological growth, and transforms a person’s sense of Self. Its focus is not only on the health of the body and the mind, but also on the heart and spirit, to achieve a new level of wellness that expands a person’s capacity for relationship, family, community, and universal care.
An emphasis is placed upon returning to presence in the moment by bringing awareness to the physical sensations, emotions, and thoughts that arise throughout the therapeutic experience. With increasing awareness that is extended further and further into a person’s waking life, and an alignment of a person’s intention with his or her actions, wholeness or integrity is achieved. The Integral Approach supports individuals and couples as they make meaning of their experience, develop compassion for themselves and others, learn to stay with and find value in the challenges they face, and create a sustainable view of themselves and the world that is transcendent.
Individual clients have an opportunity to explore the core issues of authenticity, healthy living, spiritual practice, skillfulness in action, and seeing the highest in others. They do this by getting in touch with their own innate wisdom and happiness. This often means working through and letting go of old narratives and belief systems that no longer serve a purpose. By cultivating non-judgmental awareness, clients are able to tell the truth about themselves and feel the release of depression and anxiety. Thoughts, feelings, and actions come into alignment, paving the way for optimal health and personal transformation. Ultimately, conscious living becomes a priority and clients understand their true capacities. When this is achieved, individuals are able to expand into places that have been under-developed within themselves and create lives that are multi-dimensional.
Individual Work
love fearlessly
Couples therapy integrates the best practices of Relational Psychology, Family Systems, Gestalt & Narrative Therapies, and Imago Therapy. Couples are given the tools and support necessary to transform their relational health and create lasting positive change. Sessions involve mentorship and practice of undeveloped intelligences. With expanding awareness, couples examine their relational dynamics, patterns, motivations, and gender strengths and vulnerabilities. Exploration of sexuality, intimacy, fidelity, and selfhood will typically arise.
Some couples enter therapy to heal from relational neglect or to enliven relational ennui.
Couples Work
Newly formed relationships benefit from couples work to bring to light the essential nature of the connection or to build a strong foundation. Couples contemplating separation will enter therapy to join in conscious uncoupling in order to bring honor, intention, and dignity to the dissolution of the partnership. Deep care and sensitivity toward gender difference, diversity, and the stage of a couple’s relationship is generated. With an emphasis on responsibility, compassion, and self-assertion, couples learn to balance care for themselves with care for their partner and the relationship.
Grieving loss is a natural human phenomenon and requires understanding, gentleness, and compassion. Loss occurs throughout the lifespan, from infancy through the dying process, yet seldom is it given the acknowledgment and space necessary for its integration into a person’s growth and development. All too often, significant losses are minimized, repressed, or disregarded. They can be traumatic, abruptly life-changing, frequent, or numerous. These types of loss run the risk of generating experiences of complicated grief, where people are halted in the grieving process and are not able to reach resolution.
Grief, Loss & Transition Work
Within the safe holding space of grief counseling, both the natural grieving process and the complicated grief experience can unfold. A sacred space for people to heal, learn, and grow is created and sacred ritual is used to honor loss and usher in a quiet acceptance. Clients integrate the stories of their loss and learn to embrace change. When the unity of loss, love, and growth is recognized, clients experience a return to wholeness and a reclaiming of themselves.
Spiritual Companionship
We live in a complex time of acceleration and upheaval, and we are surrounded by images that can tether us to fear if we keep our focus there. Spiritual companioning provides an alternate focus that expands our perception, heals places in us that feel loveless, and awakens us to interconnection and deep care. There is much freedom to be found in learning to tolerate uncertainty, and great possibility when we learn to accept, allow, and abide. These qualities are the fruit that ripen along the spiritual path, and being accompanied as we cultivate them is an unparalleled experience of being witnessed, cherished, and honored.
live consciously
Spiritual companioning has been influenced by the essential teachings of Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, New Thought, and A Course In Miracles. At its core, it has evolved from the practices of vipassana (mindfulness) and metta (loving-kindness) meditation, yoga, devotional chanting, prayer, mystical experience, great love, and the vein of gold that inspires creativity. To serve as a companion to a person on their spiritual journey is likened to walking someone through to the truth of themselves. It is a journey that moves through light and darkness and through ascending consciousness, where hearts are cracked wide open and beliefs are shattered and reborn.
To be an effective mental health professional means having the energy, inspiration, wisdom, and self- awareness to be a catalyst for change. It means finding new ways of interpreting the human experience that are uplifting and resourceful. The challenge is a great responsibility and the rewards can be numerous. Whether a clinician is just starting out in the field or has years of clinical practice, focused supervision can be a career-changing experience. Through case study, personal and professional resource building, and the development of broad clinical perspective, supervision provides clarity, purpose, and a fresh outlook. The gift of clinical supervision is an invigorated and enlivened practice that is conveyed to the people with whom we work.