How long can I expect the counseling process to take?
There is no time that can be set for healing or recovery of the self, it is a process and that process can take a moment or it can take as long as it takes.  What I do is supply a safe environment for people to awaken to their true selves and remember who they really are and what they are here for.  Addiction/Distraction is a Base Survival Reality not reality.  Reality gives peace and knowingness back to us and we can live in that place of peace if we so chose.

I am not in favor of people staying in counseling forever. I am here to give a safe place to do what needs to be done, to heal and then fly.
 
How do you know when to stop counseling?
It is a feeling of being done, not a feeling of resistance to going ahead.
 
How would I know what to talk about if I came to you?
Sometimes people know what they need to heal and other times they just know that their lives are not working the way that they want them to.  We start by looking at what is working in your life and moving you towards a fulfilling life and what might be keeping you from that.
 
Does life have to be a struggle?
No, life is meant to be happy and fulfilling. Life is a struggle at times because we are living out a pattern made up of past wounding, a pattern that is not the true self but a self that is called the adapted self or the Base Survival Reality.  This self was made to adapt to its surroundings and be safe.  An example of this is an adult that has a difficult time speaking up for them self.  This is an adult that might have been emotionally abused as a child and is in the Base Survival Reality, living out the fear of their childhood.  That is NOT the self that we truly are or are meant to be, however, that is the self many chose to live and die in.  Suffering comes with recreating a life full of patterns in relationships, work, thoughts of self, and routines that keep that adaptation in tact.
 
Do you counsel couples?
Yes. When I work with couples it is easier to see what the adapted patterns in the relationship are. This helps me to understand if they might be recreating the dynamics of their past so that I can know how to help them see it and change them. A definition for addiction; is doing the same thing over and over, knowing that there are harmful consequences or living in the Base Survival Reality (a reality that you have created to survive). People do this all of the time, in MANY different ways.  It is NOT only chemicals, it can be relationships, control, hiding, obsessive thinking, doing, internet, working, unconsciousness, repeating patterns, caretaking, rescuing, school, reading, sex, love, emotion, drama, avoidance - in essence, an escape by any means.
 
What is your method as a counselor?
For me it is like looking at all of the pieces in a puzzle and both of us looking to see what is where, what is real and what is no longer necessary to keep. It is not my way to just talk.  I use energy psychology to help a person move through and get cleared of what they are holding onto faster. I use intuitive counseling to get to what might be the root faster.  I help my clients also learn how to use their own intuitive senses to help them in this process to know what is really theirs and what is not. We all have a knowingness that is connected to consciousness.  Our lives have become lives of unconsciousness and my job is to help people wake their knowingness.  Denial can be all around us, the opposite of knowingness. I refer to the butterfly metaphor:

We are the entire butterfly and some can only see the cocoon as a prison, the conscious view tells us we can see releasing the cocoon as a way to build our muscles so that we can fly.
 
Can you tell me more about your method?
I use many different modalities such as; intuitive counseling, processing of feelings and emotions (energy-in-motion), family of origin work, retrieval of the lost parts of self. I use some alternative approaches of ancient ways like alchemy, hypnotherapy, and energy psychology to assist people in their transformations to consciousness. I have found these ways to assist in people moving along faster and with fewer struggles. We can be and do so much more than we believe we can. We are encapsulated in our beliefs, trusting that they are true. What if they are not? Look beyond the veil of your thoughts and your intellect into the possibilities of there being more.

 
“These chains are only in my mind, it is only the beliefs that hold me, and all I have to do is change my mind.”