Integrative Psychotherapy
This is an approach to well-being that takes your whole person into account (mental, physical, emotional), as well as the various ‘systems’ you live in. We start with an in-depth assessment, and design our work together with the modalities and experiences that will best help you heal and grow...
Clean Living: Elegant Solutions for Collaborative Problem Solving
Is it really possible to craft a win/win method of solving many of the most entrenched interpersonal issues we face? Can we be released from….?
win/lose CAPITULATION and DOMINATION?
mini-lose/mini-lose COMPROMISE?
lose/lose DENIAL and AVOIDANCE?
Clean Living: Dialogue in the Midst of Conflict
The 1-2-3 Dialogue can be thought of as a simple set of rules that govern conflict. We are familiar with this concept when it comes to the sports arena or even war between nations. However, in the most important areas of our lives, conflicts are largely unregulated, with no agreed upon rules to protect the participants or the relationship.
Clean Living: Listening 101
“True human sincerity, true transparency…is a rare and difficult thing; and so much of it depends on the person who is listening to us!” Effective listening involves three main skills: Paying Attention, Following, and Reflecting.
Clean Living: The Stages of Emotional Liberation
Judgments, criticisms, diagnoses and interpretations of others are all alienated expressions of our own needs and values. The more directly we can connect our needs to our feelings, the easier it is for us to respond compassionately.
Clean Living: Toxin Free Communication
Using non-violent communication to free your heart AND your relationship.
Doubt and Faith are Old Friends
Doubt and faith are old friends holding hands in their walk along the changing shoreline of life. They are not enemies but are in fact lovers.
Where have the Wild Ones gone?
Like a wild beast tamed to domestication, is humanity in her addiction to simulation and safety. Somewhere deep in her heart lies a spark of the ferocity of what she once was.
I am One with the Universe. And it Hurts.
Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.