Path to Wholeness

    Approach

    The work often unfolds gradually, and real change is possible.

    I do not think of this work as a technique applied to a problem. It is closer to a sustained, attentive relationship in which something becomes possible over time that wasn't possible before. We attend to symptoms, and also to the deeper patterns, meanings, wounds, and possibilities that may be asking for attention. Real healing, integration, and change often unfold slowly, and they are real.

    We move at the pace of what is actually happening, not at the pace of what one wishes were happening. In a culture shaped by speed and constant stimulation, that kind of slower attention is itself part of what makes deeper change possible.

    The same orientation runs through the work I offer: depth-oriented psychotherapy, clinical supervision, consultation, and spiritual direction. They are distinct in frame and in purpose, but they share a kind of attention.

    What we attend to

    A few of the themes that often surface.

    • Unconscious patterns

      The shapes that repeat themselves in relationships, in work, in the inner life. They have usually been with us a long time. They have something to say.

    • Dreams and inner life

      Dreams and the inner life have my serious attention when they arise in the work, without being reduced to formula.

    • Meaning and identity

      Questions of who one is, what one is for, what one no longer believes. These are not problems to be solved quickly. They are invitations to listen more carefully.

    • Integration over time

      What opens in this work needs time to be lived into. The arc is not toward insight alone, but toward a different way of being inside one's own life.

    Specialized areas

    Particular kinds of work, when they apply.