NATURAL PROCESS PSYCHOTHERAPY ^TM

Anyone who is available to continue growing is already "in therapy" with themselves. The time spent with me at intermittent points along the way adds an additional presence, energy, intuition and expertise to augment one’s "clientship" with oneself. Growth is a product of conflict. The finesse is to temper and balance conflict and to learn to take charge of the process from the inside-out rather than struggling for control from the outside-in, thus optimizing the value of the experience.

Natural Process Psychotherapy has evolved through my years journeying with my clients. Although trained in both classical and contemporary theory and methodology, I regard people as my real books. Nourished by the experiences of my own life, the lives of my clients and the places we intersect, a collective wisdom is tapped that enhances my ability to accompany and guide my clients as they discover, own and embrace their own natural resources. I consider my work an art form . . . the natural tools of my craft being intuition, creativity, approximation and invention.

In one respect, therapy is the result of the energy between client and therapist. Part of my expertise is in facilitating the access and flow of that energy . . . developing a relationship through which I can intervene, disrupt, generate, embellish and ultimately integrate the experience. Clients are there to discover, own and optimize what’s going on . . . not to get well, but rather accomplish and evolve through their wellness. Learning to accommodate who they are while accessing their natural resources becomes a process that is nourishing, productive and fun.

The more intensive the therapy, the more together the person needs to be in order to make use of that intensity. Therefore, the inclination and availability to intensity is indeed indicative of a relatively high level of personal integration . . . of wellness, not "sickness." Intensity in therapy is not determined by frequency alone, it is related to structure . . . specifically a willingness to become less structured and more directly available to oneself and others.

The illusion of security perpetuated by living in fixed, emotional structures is replaced with the genuine security of trusting one’s ability to create structure as needed . . . like a spider spinning a web, rather than living in a cage.