How Does Depth Therapy With Me Look?
With a warm sensitivity and focused mindful intention, I’ll meet you in the session where you are, whether you need to cautiously open up emotionally or just let it all out. I feel honored and grateful to have worked successfully over the years with many diverse clients, each one with a unique and beautiful soul, which has helped me learn a lot about how to create a safe enough space where you, the client, can feel most in control.
You’ll be in the driver’s seat whether you need me to be a non-judgmental ear who can listen and gently mirror you or you need me to be more engaged and directional in the therapeutic process. I’ll carefully try to gage how to most effectively guide you towards clarifying and accomplishing your goals, whether more effectively handling relationships, learning to better love, figuring out career, or overall creating a more satisfying life.
My work with you draws on a finely developed multidisciplinary methodology that includes CBT and mindfulness, archetypal and psycho-dynamic, emotion-focused, relational, intersubjective, existential, and neuroscience approaches, synthesized and honed through many years of clinical, instructional, and supervisorial activity, not to mention extensive community activist leadership experience, as well as my own personal inner work, ongoing since early adulthood.
As an introduction to my approach, you’re welcome to attend a monthly public event I facilitate called “The Gay-Centered Inner Work Club,” under the auspices of long-time educational nonprofit, Treeroots.
In working together, you and I can aim to solve your pressing concerns while developing more complex, depthful and potent mental and emotional capabilities.
We’ll mindfully explore all your options and then organically come to solutions and resolutions that make sense on many different levels and from different angles. I’ll help you devise exercises which might be very simple or more challenging to help address important needs like to better relate with others, focus on tasks, work with difficult feelings, handle stressful situations, and meet goals.
We’ll also go mindfully inward at your pace to make connections to old forgotten parts of yourself which, in becoming more conscious can result in a more coherent, grounded and empowered sense of self.
An important part of healing the ailing psyche is to work to more deeply feel feelings and emotions and so learn to better regulate feelings. This can be done most effectively with the power of the imagination. Imagining, for example, a kid within who suffers because he’s neglected and then a soul image, a being a light, who holds that kid and beneficently empathizes with his hurt to transform that pain into a magical elixir of love.
With the unique understanding and insight into the ways of the psyche I can bring, together we can open the door to an extraordinary transpersonal world full of meaning and lasting sense of fulfillment – as well as the nutritive rush of a newly generated gay spirit power!
