Your journey, should you venture forth on this path, will inevitably lead you to foreign
terrain. This is where I come in- as a guide on your expedition to explore and map the
landscape of your lived experience. With warm intention, respectful curiosity, and depth
of presence, I am ready to accompany you on your journey to chart that new territory.
I concern myself more with the "being" than with the "doing" of therapy. I once read the sage perspective that "people need experiences, not interpretations", and that has profoundly influenced how I practice my particular art of psychotherapy. I hold that if we are tending to what surfaces that authentic growth and healing will organically result.
When not in the sacred space of the therapy room, I spend my time reading (fantasy, poetry), writing, lifting weights, hiking, and spending time in nature.
Recommended Reading:
Dream Wise (Lisa Marchiano)
Secure Relating (Sue Marriott)
Swamplands of the Soul (James Hollis)
Unattended Sorrow (Stephen A. Levine)
The Wild Edge of Sorrow (Francis Weller)
Returning Home to Our Bodies (Abigail Rose Clark)
Jon Shuffler
LCSW, LCDC