Coming into therapy, what is your hope? What is your idea of what might happen? In order to give a sense of what it’s like …being aware that what follows is about as far from reality as a map is from what it ’s depicting… my inclination is to describe ideas-in-progress about mental and emotional health or wholeness. (That sentence pretends that mentality and emotionality are separate entities from physicality or anything else in the universe. And society pretends such, evidenced by the separate disciplines we maintain.) Wholeness is the operative word, the idea that healing what’s not working in life is an inclusive process. Rather than cutting out parts of ourselves, we can add on, include and expand so that parts balance other parts. This indicates a belief that all parts have a function which developed over time and still retain grains of truth …the precious body of our experience which has tried to guide us as best it could. Because the body of experience gets solidified into thought forms, it becomes disembodied and loses it’s utility and spontaneity, creating the feeling of being in a rut, stuck, confused or clueless. This is the feeling that often brings people into therapy. There the opportunity to connect with all of oneself …which is connected to the all that is… loosens the hold of the disembodied thoughts, also known as belief systems When focused on my whole experience… thoughts, emotions and sensations in the present… I have not just a paragraph or chapter from the thought form planet to inform me but rather a whole galaxy of information to utilize.

Because the solidification of responses to experience also occurs in the emotions, in the physical body and energetically, I invite any channels of information that are available, using the entire gamut of felt body experience as potential assistants in the'discovery zone'. I have found that the most powerful way to access such informationis experientially. Therefore your session might include a variety of enactments which engage more than just the thinking mind and its verbal expression. When accessing the psyche from more than one channel, your experience becomes expanded. You find new ideas and ways of being more accessible because there is more included in your field of experience.

A change or shift in perspective seems to occur much more readily when the physical body, the energy body and the emotional body participate with the thinking mind in an experience. As my perspective …or position in relation to my point of focus… changes and expands, fresh visions, ideas, opportunities and feelings arise. Now I can make more choices and experiment with different ways of being and relating. And that is where joy, curiosity and excitement can arise.

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