Each of us is fundamentally sane but confused habits of thinking, feeling and behaving make it difficult, at times, to access our sanity. This is the basic view of Buddhism and the view we hold in working with our clients.
The benefits of meditation is that it trains us to bring our awareness back to what’s happening right now. The past doesn’t exist and the future has yet to occur. All we have is now, so why not live in the present rather than lost in the world of thought, worry and day dreams? We can give ourselves this instruction: just live in the present, but find it hard to do. Our minds fixate on what worries us, what pains us, and in the awareness of such difficulty our spiritual journey begins.
One can use the neurofeedback therapy as a stand-alone training or in conjunction with contemplative psychotherapy. Neurofeedback is meditation for the automatic functioning brain! The process alerts the brain whenever it is about to change states, triggering the brain to come into the present and see what it’s doing.
Group is a practical tool using here-and-now experience as the reference point. Our habitual emotional patterns and communications styles become apparent and we practice using new ways of communicating to foster and develop intimacy.
Anxiety, Depression, Life Transition Issues, Relationship Issues, Trauma, Anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, Insomnia, Sexual Abuse, Spiritual Impasses, Parenting, Meditation/Relaxation, Emotional Communication and Intimacy.