Whether you’ve been going through rough times or you’re looking to grow spiritually, you may be looking for a way that feels more integrated.
It could be that everything is going well in your life, but there is a feeling that you’re missing something or that you’re not growing the way you thought you would be.
Or, you’ve been going through it on some level. Maybe it’s your personal life or relationships. Or your work is feeling out of alignment with what you really want to be spending your time on. Maybe it’s your health. Or grief. Or you don’t even know what it is. What you do know is that you’re feeling LOST. Or stuck. Or lonely. Or that there is something wrong with you.
You might have tried therapy…meditation…singing…writing…law of attraction…And the list goes on.
You may have been persistent and seen some growth, but you’re still feeling caught up with the same old stuff. Or maybe you’ve done none of that, but you recognize you really need something different to support you now.
In these times, we need psychology and more holistic understanding of who we are and to understand what we’re going through or to give us direction in our lives. Often when people are going through difficult times, traditional psychology looks at how to alleviate the pain, to adjust to our lives, or to have tools to make us feel better again. People also find themselves going to spirituality. “If I meditate, I can stop my thoughts” or quiet the feelings inside that are troubling us. We can find ourselves “spiritual bypassing”, which means we make everything we feel as not real. No wonder we end up feeling isolated, lonely, feeling like there’s something wrong with us.
Though the paths of psychology and spirituality are helpful, we need psychology and spirituality and our bodies to really integrate. But we don’t know where to look for it. We need to understand, to recognize the call within as a gift of our hearts/souls trying to align us. What does that mean? Sometimes we are searching for a life that we feel meaning or purpose. Something that enlivens us, sometimes what people call a spark! Both traditional psychology and spirituality miss the spark. A spark is not necessarily like being in the limelight, it can be a quiet feeling of fulfillment. It can be what we experience when we dance, or write poetry, or take care of a loved one, or create an instrument that helps humanity or the world.
You are someone who has oriented your life towards goodness such as generosity, love, compassion despite all the difficult experiences you’ve endured
You want deeper healing than just therapy
Spirituality or yoga/meditation alone don’t seem to be enough…the same issues are still present and recapitulating in your life
You’re longing to find your happiness or contentment that has felt so elusive
You often think the reason you don’t fit in is there is something wrong with you
So, how is this work different?
Most psychotherapy works on creating a healthy ego structure so that we can function in this world. It teaches us to adjust to the world around us no matter how messed up the world is. It doesn’t recognize that we are so much more than our ego structures. Psychology misses the biggest point of us being here on this planet — our spirit. Spirituality often bypasses the ego structure and goes straight to enlightenment practices. It may even tell us how we bring along the hurt and wounded parts of us in theory. Yet, many get lost as there is no map on how to transform or heal those parts of us and we end up dissociating with them because we don’t know what to do with them. Maybe we’ve been missing a piece when we go to either therapy or spirituality. In this work, we go deeper and integrate psychology, the body, and our essence, which is different attributes of our spirit.
With various skillful means like inquiry, meditation, body awareness and exercises, psychological understanding of our patterns, we stay present to your experience, allowing it to emerge so that the inherent wisdom within you unfolds. For example, you might feel anger. You don’t know what to do with it. Then you pay attention to the energy in your body, such as heat and warmth or aliveness. You notice that as you stay present with the energy in your body, you start feeling strength. Your body feels more alive. And the anger you were feeling may have transformed into strength and clarity. Another example is that sometimes there’s a voice of wisdom inside of us, reflective, calming, knowledge providing. It’s as though there is something wise within us that we don’t pay attention to. We take our time together to listen to the often quiet voice of wisdom within you so that it can become more clear, turning into guidance.
This is coming home.
May this be a path of self love, maturation and of coming home to ourselves and our lives in a fulfilling way.
Got more questions?
What do psychospiritual sessions look like?
We meet virtually for about 50 minutes. Depending on where you are in your process and what you’re wanting from the work, we can determine what would be a good frequency for sessions. Some may want to come in every week, while for others it could be once a month, or in between.
What are the charges for the sessions?
I charge $250 a session. I do consider a lower fee when there is a financial need. Please let me know your financial concerns and we will go from there. Some pay more than the customary fee of $250 per session as a way of supporting others who cannot afford to pay that rate.
Is this considered therapy? Will insurance reimburse me for these sessions?
How are psychospiritual sessions different from therapy and how do I know what I need?
Psychotherapy involves diagnosing and treating a mental health diagnosis. Psychospiritual sessions do not diagnose or treat mental health disorders. If you have further questions about what you may need in our work together, please reach out for a consultation.
I’m in psychotherapy with my therapist already. Can I still have psychospiritual sessions?
Most people coming to psychospiritual sessions are not in concurrent therapy because the sessions themselves integrate our psychological understanding in this work. At the same time, some people who are in psychotherapy may come for psychospiritual sessions periodically for a specific purpose such as integrating presencing skills or to integrate their soul/spirit adding to the psychological work they are doing with their therapist.
For psychotherapy, I have to be in the state the therapist is licensed in. Do I have to be in California for these sessions?
Since psychospiritual sessions are not therapy, you can be anywhere in the world to receive these sessions.
