Spiritual Counseling
IFS—Hakomi—Dream Work
Returning to Wholeness
To heal traditionally meant to make whole. In my Spiritual Counseling I practice using IFS and Hakomi to help heal inner + outer conflict, liberate fixed beliefs, move beyond fear + anxiety and transform out-dated conditioning.
In my experience, healing and awakening happen in relationship, we need each other to change and open to wholeness.
My approach to spiritual counseling involves deep listening, mindful-presence and compassionate inquiry.
Spiritual Counseling can help you if you are interested any of the following:
Companioning Grief + Loss
Clarifying Life Purpose
Healing Relational Conflict
Working with Shadow Material
Healing Inner Conflict
Healing relationship with Eating, Food or Body Image
Spiritual Emergence
Integrating Psychedelic or Mystical Experiences
Moving Through Creative Blocks, Career Impasses and Burnout
My work is supported by the methods and practices of Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Therapy (Hakomi), Buddhist Psychology, Expressive Arts and Dream Work.
If you want to learn more about Shadow Work and Dream Work scroll down.
My 1:1 sessions are based on a generosity model of mutual care. Please pay what you can on the sliding scale of $75 - $150 / hour.
I also offer an intro 4 session package for $250. All sessions currently take place on-line through the zoom app.
More About IFS + Hakomi
Embodied Experiential Therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Hakomi are experiential, embodied therapeutic modalities where we use mindfulness to enter our present moment experience and access states of being, emotions, thoughts, beliefs and habits that may be causing suffering to ourselves or others. Through mindfulness we work to explore these states together with curiosity and compassion, which can facilitate deeper understanding, healing and transformation.
Shadow Work + Dreams
What is Shadow Work?
The Shadow often refers to what we don’t know about ourselves, or more specifically what we habitually and unconsciously deny about ourselves. If we keep these forces in the unconscious, they end up having a lot of power over us. Our shadow material affects our relationships, our career, our work environment and also our physical and mental well-being.
Shadow Work is bringing awareness to the parts of us that we habitually deny. We can notice this in the ways we judge others, in dream characters that feel foreign to us or in the dominating narratives we have about what is “right / wrong”.
Awakening to our Shadow material often allows for healing, returning to wholeness and integrating.
IFS, Hakomi and Dream Work are all great ways of working with the Shadow. This is part of the work I do in Spiritual Counseling.
Dream Work
Our dreams contain insight, wisdom and truths that are emerging in real time. Dreams can be the source of deep transformation and healing —if we are willing to listen to them. To hear them. To embody their wisdom.
I love dreams. I love dreaming and sharing dreams with others. I approach dreams inspired by the Jungian-based modality of Process Work Psychology as well as my years as a Zen koan student and teacher. Which means that my style of dream work is deeply embodied. We enter the dream in real time. We take up the different characters and elements in our own bodies. We feel into the wisdom of our dreams, through the soma.
I call this approach embodied imagination. Sometimes our dreams are asking us to include an element of our psyche or ourselves that is disowned, making dream work a form of shadow work. Other times our dreams may be taking us into the suchness of our being, the undifferentiated, the unconditioned. Still others our dreams are inviting inquiry into a situation or giving us an ally, or practice to embody.
IFS and Hakomi partner well with Dream Work. If you are interested in learning more, contact me for an exploratory session!
Contact Me
Together we can unfold the process that is emerging through you
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