Psychospiritual Therapy

For many of us, the real problem isn’t a diagnosis or something a pill can medicate–because the problem isn’t individual. The problem is the human condition: the problems of evil, death, and taxes. The problem of watching our species tear itself and the planet apart. 

Often, a major life change (leaving a religious community, loss of a parent, social or medical transition) brings these issues to a full existential crisis. Few clients I have worked with feel ready to directly confront their biggest existential fears. Few therapists I know address this type of crisis in a way that goes to the root of the problem. I aim to change that with anybody who is willing. 

I have no agenda for the conclusions you find, nor do I come from a single faith-based perspective. My clients have ranged from atheists to Voodoo practitioners. My approach is ecumenical and nonsectarian. I stand on a wealth of cross cultural knowledge, and two decades of serious spiritual study, practice, and contemplation in Christian, Buddhist, Daoist, and Hindu traditions. As a client-centered process, Psychospiritual counseling may include any of the following that you are interested in: 

Bibliotherapy (reading spiritual, poetic, or mythic texts)

Value Identification

Journalling

Structured Contemplation

Divination (using methods such as I Ching, Tarot, other auguries) 

Walking meditation

Qigong (Chigong)

Yoga

Prāṇāyāma (Breath meditation)

Prayer

Fasting

Guided Visualization

Formless meditation ("sitting"/zazen/vipassana) 

Formal meditation (mantra recitation, visualization)