Personal Work
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
~ Rumi
What’s Involved?
I offer tailored support for people who are interested in personal growth and insight - especially as they relate to positively impacting the world.
I bring my knowledge and expertise in Processwork, Nonviolent Communication, anti-oppression principles, various forms of awareness practice, and a great deal of care and attention to the material you bring.
With a few exceptions, all sessions are offered virtually.
Who?
If one or more of the following statements is true for you, please reach out to me. I’d like to offer you a free 50-minute session to help you determine if I’m a good person for you to work with.
Are you…
curious about personal work that views waking life as a different kind of dream?
interested in personal liberation?
someone who views power as the ability to choose between love and fear?
actively working to create a new and better world for everyone?
interested in conflict as a powerful catalyst for personal growth?
someone who enjoys improv, art, or thinking about your life in metaphor?
aware of spiritual bypassing and wondering how to avoid it?
Why?
Working with me may be a good fit for you if you:
are interested in going to a certain level of depth
are interested in becoming more conscious and deliberate about the way you use power
have the time and energy for ongoing tailored support from a skilled facilitator
are able to do some work outside our time together
Why Not?
This may not be for you if:
You are coming primarily to learn content (free courses would be a much better starting place)
You’re looking for a coach with industry-specific knowledge to support your skills in a particular field (unless you’re looking for support in education or facilitation)
You’re looking for a depth of psychological care or a mental health treatment plan that would be better provided by therapy (see the section at the bottom of this page called “Is This Therapy?”)
Pricing
1-1 Sessions: $100 per 50-minute session
Relationship, Group, or Family Sessions: $125 per 50-minute session
Packages
I offer a few tailored packages for folks looking for a defined outcome and scope of work.
Developing Your Inner Talisman (8 sessions over 1-2 months)
A talisman is a mythological object individuals carry so they can enter trying circumstances and emerge unscathed. This package of work helps you contact a deeper sense of self and purpose in your work, which you can use like an inner talisman to help you grow through difficult situations that arise in your life and work. We’ll do this by exploring your earliest childhood memory or dream, the issues that give you the most trouble in life, and the moments when you feel most aligned with your purpose and being.
The eight sessions in this package are completed in 1-2 months, which means meeting once or twice per week. There will be one piece of homework between each session.
Because of the level of commitment involved, this package is ideal for folks who have a break in their lives from the grind of modern life and have time to invest in inward reflection.
Navigating a Complex Conflict (6 sessions over 2 weeks)
This package is for two people who are struggling with a conflict in their relationship they’d like support with. It includes two individual sessions for each person and two relationship sessions where both people meet with me together (six sessions in total). If you have mutual friends or community who care for you both, it is ideal to involve them in our work. If possible, it is also ideal to find a location to do the relationship work in person. Homework may be required.
I like to do the first set of sessions in the first week and the second set of sessions the week after. Depending on how things go, we can consider continuing the work in the same way or adjust the package to support what’s needed.
Dreamwork Intensive (6 sessions over 6 weeks)
Nighttime dreams can offer tremendous value to us in our waking life if we know how to work with them. This package is for folks who are interested in exploring the potential meaning of their nighttime dreams and integrating them into their waking life.
This package includes designing and making use of a dream journal, learning ways of thinking about and working with dreams, and facilitated work we’ll do with your dreams in session. One piece of homework will be required between each session.
A variation on this package can be developed for a group of people who’d like to work together in a group on their dreams. This is ideal for people just beginning to learn about dreamwork.
Oppression Awareness Consultancy Group (4 sessions over 1-4 months)
This package is designed for a group of people who would like to pool their funds to receive feedback on real life situations they’re encountering in their oppression awareness practice. We’ll treat each session as case study work, so you’ll need to bring challenges you’re facing in order for this to work.
Groups limited to eight participants. There may be homework between sessions.
You Want to Learn More
If you’ve taken time to consider working with me carefully, and you’d like to learn more, I’d like to invite you to schedule a free 50-minute consultation. I’ll ask you why you’ve come and what you think I can help you with. Please prepare your thoughts before coming. It will help us both get the most out of our time together.
There will be no sales pitch. The goals are to a) help you as much as I can within the fifty minutes, and b) help us both decide if we’d like to work together. I’ll send you a follow-up email when the session is over, and we can determine if we’d like to move forward from there.
Click here to schedule your free consultation.
Is This Therapy?
In the realm of human healing, growth, and transformation, there are many different kinds of professionals. The field includes therapists, counselors, coaches, energy workers, awareness facilitators, shamans, meditation teachers, etc…
I am not a licensed therapist, and I do not offer therapy. That means I don’t diagnose illness or pathology; I don’t prescribe medication or treatment plans; I don’t accept insurance; and my work is not legally governed by a professional standards board. In other words, I am not the person to come to if you’re looking for a certain level of psychological care or a treatment plan for a long-term mental health challenge.
My work is an alternative to therapy.
I can help you gain awareness of and transform the dynamics that limit your ability to actualize your values. This sometimes involves working with unconscious material, and that is always done with care and informed consent.
I have (and continue to undergo) years of intensive training in facilitating human dynamics. I have experience as a counselor at a community clinic. I abide by the ethical guidelines established by the Processwork Institute. I know the limits of my scope of competence, and I maintain a robust network of connections to licensed therapists to whom I refer clients when their needs are beyond my ability. Lastly, I receive ongoing supervision around my work from more senior licensed and non-licensed professionals.
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