Therapy Expectaions

 I love what I do and have a passion for working with people. Usually the people I see are very busy, their plates are very full. So I like to get to the meat of the matter, ask questions and dive right in.  Core foundations:

• Welcome. This is a place of safety.
•  this is your life, not anyone else's.  You have the right to experience joy and the right to experience pain.  There are consequences for both.
• Be careful what you ask for. 
• Be aware that often pain leads to new opportunities and a higher outcome.
• Sometimes it gets worse before it gets better.
• Rule #1: Everyone does the best they can in every situation with the resources they have available.  (we'll see if we can find more resources)
• The Map is not the Territory.
• There is a difference between beliefs and truths.  Most beliefs are not true, but we believe they are...true.
• Difference equals beauty.
• If you want to hunt buffalo you’ve got to get out of your teepee.

 I don't like to focus too much on the swamp, the drama of the problem’s history.  A little bit is ok, but the main question is: if we don't want to be where we are (emotionally, psychologically, energetically or physically), why do we keep doing the stuff that doesn't work?  What are the barriers that keep us doing stuff that doesn’t work? when we discover those, then we have an opportunity to go find new stuff that is more fun to do, more challenging;  to leap out of our comfort zone and see what happens.

I focus on general structure of solution-finding and let my folks figure out specifically what works best for them.  I like to laugh more than cry, but crying is ok. I hand it out (whatever it is) and can take it, and expect to.  Resistance equals power, and doubt is the way to find your path. Good to remember that it is the journey not the destination, and life is a process not a product. 

In practical terms, I am a healing assistant, a counselor, consultant and psychotherapist.  In my scope of practice, I use a full range of talk therapies to help clients move along  the path they tell me they want to follow; but I have come to know that the mind alone can't heal that which touches the soul; that ordinary reality has it's limits and non-ordinary reality has unlimited opportunities to find the possible. So, with permission, I use vibrational healing tools such as reiki, a hands on (or off ) method of clearing and rebalancing energy fields, crystals to enhance vibrational power, tuning forks to aid in balancing and clearing energy, sound, music movement as practiced for thousands of years by shamans and other healers who come to us from all parts of the world, all cultures and all efforts to come to and stay in the presence of what we call by many names, God.

Namaste

A word of undetermined origin that means Peace be with you

Jon Christensen  (Yon)