Psychotherapy & Healing Work
Psychotherapy can help in many ways.
It can provide relief from symptoms, clarify needs and desires, help one make decisions, and develop relationship skills. It also helps us learn how to work with our fears and addictions and trauma. Often, one of the greatest benefits of psychotherapy is changing how we relate to ourselves. It can lead us from being critical, judgmental, and closed-off to being more attuned, and aware, and alive.
Often, people fear their own feelings. For this reason, they may avoid consulting a professional about their problems. While it is true that feelings like pain, anger, or disappointment may be a part of the process, taking a closer look at our feelings and conflicts can also reveal strengths and abilities that have gone unrecognized or under-appreciated.
A deeper look into who we are.
Looking into our past is not an avoidance of responsibility for our lives. Understanding how our childhood and family experiences have shaped us helps us identify our unconscious choices and in turn, allows us to make new choices as we see fit. This gives us more control of our lives and more options for ourselves.
At the same time, we often blame ourselves for misfortunes and situations that, despite our best efforts, are beyond our control. This can lead to depression and a diminished sense of worth. Recognizing that there are things that we alone cannot change can restore our sense of power and encourage us to focus on what is truly within our ability to change.
Understanding the story of our lives is extremely helpful in resolving trauma and making healthy decisions. Our story resides not only in our minds but in our bodies as well. Our feelings, our physical experiences, our tensions, and our protections hold these experiences.
body-centered psychotherapy
Beyond traditional paths to personal growth (through conversation and deep listening), I frequently practice body-centered psychotherapy which includes methods to develop skills in relaxation and release. This approach can make us aware of the need we have ignored and the power we have not claimed.
Often, body-centered psychotherapy can guide us more directly and immediately to what lies at the heart of our conflicts. Understanding, in an embodied way, the sources of our distress opens a door to greater peace and possibility.
Healing is Possible
“Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.”
–Rumi
Services:
Psychotherapy
For individuals, in-person or remote
There is nothing quite like the experience of being offered a refuge that allows time and space for deepening into one’s own inner life.
Without self-awareness, we are driven by unconscious emotion and unacknowledged wounds, and our actions are often habitual and unskillful rather than thoughtful, direct, and heart-based. As we become aware, we are more in charge of ourselves and our choices—and our destiny.
Training Events
Our training series are designed to give therapists and healers a basic understanding of how to integrate body-centered therapy, character development, and transpersonal practices. We want practitioners who are new to working in this way to feel more at ease with using mindfulness, breathwork, and body-centered methods in their healing work. And we want to assist those who already use these approaches to further their skills.
In concert with our own willingness, breath and bodywork ground us in present bodily experience, open our senses, connect us to our aliveness.
Workshops
Kenneth, along with colleague and dear friend, Linda Manning, has offered countless workshops and weekend intensives that combine brief lectures, discussions, and embodiment practices to help participants learn and grow. Our aim is to support participants in integrating their physical being with both their emotional lives and their spiritual principles. This effort, along with a generous helping of grace, allows us to live with mindfulness, passion, compassion, and style.