Thank you for your interest in seeking meaningful and effective counseling. I know that psychotherapy and relationship work can be daunting, and that trust in your relationship facilitator is essential.
Shift in Perspective, Inc. is an approach imbued with embodied presence and attentive listening into the interior of body, heart, mind and soul and relatedness.
Essentially, as your practitioner, I provide a sanctuary, a holding environment, a safe place for your inquiry into the nature and transformation of experience. I see myself as a soul guide and as an intimacy and relationship facilitator.
Together, in a collaborative therapeutic way, we work to refine awareness, to develop more accurate, truthful perception and to open up the ways we communicate with our inner and outer world.
We include physical, emotional, cognitive/mental, relational, environmental, systemic and subtle dimensions of being in an overall assessment, then direct ourselves towards that which nourishes individual development and a sense of relatedness.
My approach is integrative, alternately: pragmatic, analytical, somatic, cognitive and relational, depending on our assessment of who and where you are and on what your leading edge intention or goal is.
Pragmatically: What practices, resources and skills help you function at your best? I am trained to identify resources that are best suited for your life situation. As a counselor and coach, I focus with you on cultivating holistic skills that help you excel: mindfulness, emotional self-regulation, non-defensive communication and body-mind techniques strengthen and promote optimal brain functioning, overall health and wellness.
Analytically: How are your psychological, behavioral and relational patterns an unfolding of archaeologically deeper patterns, instilled in our earlier years? How might insight into these underlying sources enlighten your present-day possibilities? Depth psychology, therapeutic deconstruction and reconstruction work with archetypes, sub-personalities, disowned parts and troublesome defenses, supports living more conscious, integrated, meaningful lives.
Somatically: How does listening to body signals and sensations create new options for personal development, emotional balance and vitality? Bringing mind and body together creates a sense of wholeness and balance in our lives. Clearing trauma and other sources of distress in the body helps your nervous system and brain to function more optimally. Movement awareness, attention to nutrients, exercise, sleep patterns and other physiological factors are brought into perspective for greater overall balance.
Cognitively: As your guide, my approach is to assist you in identifying the cognitive and emotionally embedded traps that create dis-ease and distress, and to clear those fixations. We listen to the stories you are telling yourself, to determine what is true and what is make-believe! We work to de-construct negative identifications, cleansing our perceptual mirrors from the “schmutz” of our conditioning, and then to re-construct identity on more conscious, benevolent foundations.
Relationally: Our therapeutic relationship is meant to provide an inter-subjective bridge (person to person, I-Thou) and thus a corrective emotional experience, an environment that you can feel safe in, relax, inquire and deepen in your sense and expression of your true self. We focus on differentiation, that is, the ability to self-regulate, to recognize our own feelings, needs, wants and fears and to manage our own anxieties at the edges of the unknown, at the same time as being empathic and co-relational with others. I work with an inter-subjectivity frame, that is, with our ability to notice and attend to how we effect each other, to deepen a sense of intimate relatedness. I look at intimacy and sexuality as existing on a spectrum, with sensuality, soulful contact and sexual communion being different levels and experiences that we can open to.
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