"I'm here to listen..."
Are you on an emotional or spiritual journey? A healing journey? Are you aware of deeply ingrained patterns that keep you stuck or confused or discouraged? Are you looking to “grow up” or “wake up?” Do you desire the wholeness, authenticity and higher potential you know is possible if you could just get out of your own way?
If any of these questions resonate, I offer psychotherapy, spiritual counseling, and Realization Process sessions in New York City; Danbury, Connecticut; as well as online via Zoom videoconferencing from anywhere in the world.
In all of my work I am passionate about helping people create real and sustainable transformation in their lives and in their relationships through deeper contact with the truth of who they are. Cultivating a capacity for greater self-love is often at the heart of it. I am deeply interested in the interplay between psychology and spirituality, between “growing up” and “waking up,” and I strive to embody and teach a psychology infused with spirit and a spirituality grounded in psychological principles
May the work we do together benefit you in all aspects of your life!
I’m in my 50s and have been on a circuitous healing journey my whole life, sometimes reluctantly, often confusing, frequently glorious and in retrospect – deeply satisfying. My path has been humorous, surprising, scary, joyful and full of contradictions.
After college I lived in Asia for 12 years and took a deep dive into Buddhism and meditation practice. Returning to the US in 1995, I began training in psychotherapy in order to offer to others some of the value I had discovered in self-inquiry. The Mystery kept calling, though, and in 2008 I became an ordained interfaith minister through One Spirit in NYC. In 2012 I became the Associate Director of One Spirit’s Interspiritual Counseling Program, where I continue to create curriculum, administrate, counsel and teach. I have an abiding belief in the interfaith principle “One Light, Many Lamps,” and see myself as a compassionate listener, skilled clinician, holder of hope, and fellow journeyer.
Other roles and skills I bring are Diversity and Inclusion Consulting, Interactive Theater as a learning modality, Restorative Justice Counseling (with incarcerated men and women), and a Celebrant creating customized ritual and life-cycle celebrations.
May the work we do together benefit you in all aspects of your life!
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
I have a holistic, integrative style that draws on healing techniques both traditional and innovative. Trained in Gestalt Psychotherapy, Core Energetics, the Diamond Approach, Somatic Experiencing, Emb
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
I have a holistic, integrative style that draws on healing techniques both traditional and innovative. Trained in Gestalt Psychotherapy, Core Energetics, the Diamond Approach, Somatic Experiencing, Embodied Couples Work and other clinical and psycho-spiritual techniques, I weave a variety of modalities into my work with individuals, couples and groups. Disentangling our beliefs, perceptions and fears about ourselves (and the world) allows us to make the changes necessary that lead to greater freedom, balance and flow. I offer a gentle yet enthusiastic approach to finding the embodied self-love that is often at the core of deep inner work. I bring warmth, compassion, humor, expertise and a wide range of tools that support meaningful and sustainable transformation.
Experience a safe space where we can tap into your authentic nature and step into greater aliveness, confidence and joy.perspective, and joy that you once had in your life.
“The bigger spiritual picture is that everything that happens, happens in support of our awakening and the transformation of our individual souls.”
Both ancient and modern, Spiritual Counseling is an exploration of your deep inner journey. Together we create a sacred space for your own Higher Self and innate wisdom to emerge. Your histor
“The bigger spiritual picture is that everything that happens, happens in support of our awakening and the transformation of our individual souls.”
Both ancient and modern, Spiritual Counseling is an exploration of your deep inner journey. Together we create a sacred space for your own Higher Self and innate wisdom to emerge. Your history, trauma, life experience and diversity inform who you are, but are far from the totalityof your ever-evolving soul. The deeper Truth, which can feel difficult to reach, comes to the surface with the right environment of deep listening and attuned nurturance. People are often amazed at the innate intuition, guidance and wisdom that is always present and available under the surface. Spiritual Counseling invites a wonderful journey of discovery that is profoundly satisfying.
Learn and practice what it means to step out of the illusion of separation and come home to your fundamental interconnectedness and wholeness.
“Spiritual awakening is only a concept until you experience it in your body…”
The Realization Process © developed by Judith Blackstone, offers a grounded, embodied approach to meditation and spiritual awakening. Sessions combine gentle guided instructions to bring you into contact with yourself inside your body, and from there opening to
“Spiritual awakening is only a concept until you experience it in your body…”
The Realization Process © developed by Judith Blackstone, offers a grounded, embodied approach to meditation and spiritual awakening. Sessions combine gentle guided instructions to bring you into contact with yourself inside your body, and from there opening to a very subtle experience of your own consciousness. This cultivates a sense of deep relaxation, self-possession and steadiness, and at the same time a more open and joyful relationship to the world around you. Experience the benefits of greater embodiment, psychological healing, relational healing, and spiritual awakening through this clear and brilliant technique.
Discover the Realization Process, a practice and process of understanding your intrinsic oneness with all of creation.
Please contact me with questions.
Mon.-Wed. & Friday in Danbury, CT: by appointment
Thursday in NYC: by appointment
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