My coaching platform is composed of 3 dynamic elements that work together to support your healing and growth. Hakomi somatic therapy techniques, Psychosynthesis life coaching, and the teaching of Presence, work with body, mind, and spirit to help you know yourself deeply and discover your greatest fulfillment.

We all have different facets of our personality that arise in the variety of roles we play. These facets and roles can be more out-dated or more updated. We are often aware, if only after the fact, when an outdated facet of the personality has taken over. We feel more compulsion, less freedom and find ourselves not responding with the full range of our potential. These traits, useful to our survival at one time or another in our past, become habits in the body and mind and get activated against our best interests. Sometimes we think, “this is just who I am”, and feel it is our fate. But old habits, even chronic or intense “negative” patterning are not who we are, and can be overcome.

At our core our Being flows in perfect peace and freedom. We cannot always change all of our outer circumstances right this minute, but we can learn to access the many dynamic facets of Being in any situation. As we learn to recognize and work with outdated patterns and emotions, radiant facets of creative life energy come to meet us halfway and shine into our experience. Where there was anger, we can find strength, clarity, and definition. Where there was striving and stress we can find inspiration and flow. Expansive qualities like compassion, courage, and curiosity arise to take the place of triggered and “negative” emotions. We can find peace, love and joy much more accessible than before. Greater freedom and more kindness for ourselves and others can be ours.

The three elements of my coaching platform work together powerfully to allow these facets of Being to begin to shine through.

Psychospiritual Coaching

Hakomi Mindful Somatic Therapy

Hakomi therapy is grounded in the experience of our innate somatic intelligence. Through mindfully accessing the body, this inner intelligence guides us to our deepest healing and growth. We don’t often know how to consciously access our most difficult parts. We may have an intellectual understanding of where our wounding lies but real healing can mean safely accessing difficult memories and emotions held in the body and releasing them. This can include learning to recognize triggered or dissociated states before they carry us away. We gain the ability to mindfully regulate our nervous system before we are out of control or in a trance. Many of us with years of therapy or spiritual practice have an ability to transcend our suffering much of the time and enter a mindful state. Yet almost invariably we eventually encounter situations where we are bewildered to be behaving in less conscious ways. Mindful somatic therapy can help us more skillfully and consistently return to conscious, embodied presence in all kinds of situations. (See resources page for more on Hakomi).

Psychosynthesis

Psychosynthesis is a transpersonal psychology founded in the early twentieth century by Roberto Assagioli, a student of Freud. While respecting the notion of the unconscious, Assagioli was aware that the unconscious is not only the source of our animal drives but also the source of our greatest transcendent potential. Describing a map of consciousness that included both “lower” and “higher” capacities, both the instincts and the Soul, Assagioli helped open western psychology up to something more than the bleak outlook on human nature espoused by psychoanalysts and behaviorists.

Key to an experience of the Self, or Soul that Assagioli touted is the notion of dis-identification. As we grow into our families and cultures, the free life energy of our Being becomes predominantly funneled into the patterns of our personality. Psychosynthesis offers a wide range of tools with which to “dis-identify” from the various roles the personality takes on to survive, and gain access to the greater energy and potential of our Soul. (Please see resources section for suggestions on a deeper dive into this topic).

The Teaching of Presence

Presence is the embodied experience of Being beyond the busyness of the mind. It is the “peace that surpasses all understanding” of the Christians, and the “plentitude of the void” of Eastern religions. In Presence we are most deeply healed and fulfilled. (See resources for suggested reading).