My Approach
I have been a practitioner of mindfulness both in my own life and psychotherapy practice long before the orientation was given a name. Over the years I have fashioned a therapeutic approach that interweaves western and eastern psychological concepts and spiritual practices. This has allowed my clients to heal elements of their personal history while at the same time developing methods to access present moment awarenesses. By so doing, new painful experiences are not added to our consciousness. This also means that meditation and related activities, too often used as a means of escape from emotional pain, do not lead to spiritual bypassing. A term used to identify the ego's primarily unconscious attempt to transcend unpleasant life experiences using spiritual practices. This movement of the ego interferes with the true effort necessary to address them and is thus ultimately unsuccessful.
Life is a moment to moment experience most contentedly lived when mind, body, emotions and Spirit are in harmonious expression. This is both the invitation and possibility my therapy offers you.
“By absence of grasping one is made free. ”