FAQ’s
How does your work differ from therapy or coaching?
I understand therapy to be offering culturally sanctioned theories and tools for alleviation of different kinds of dis-ease. When we speak of a therapist or a counselor we are referring to someone whose work is rooted in a specific psychological theory or training. I do not work with any culturally sanctioned lens of perception. I am working at a level of field awareness that is, as of yet, rarely acknowledged as existing at all.
Therapy focuses on emotional experiences. You recover the narrative of the childhood and tell the story of “how this was for me”. While this is an essential part of healing, there comes a time where, in order to find the soul’s truth and wisdom, you must surrender attachment to the personal story. In therapy you focus on areas that cause problems. In our work I see dynamics as symptoms of deeper themes that need to be named.
I understand a coach to be someone who assists clients in living fuller lives by addressing life skills and focusing on goals and objectives. What I attend to is not consciously available to a client. In fact, the conscious goal: joy, love of work, conscious career choice, can often not be achieved without going to invisible, previously uncovered blocks and truths that have remained inaccessible. While our work may result in greater ease and engagement in life, our work is not about the conscious agenda.
I ask that you have a counselor or therapist you can consult with during our work together. Our work is not a replacement for any therapeutic work you may be doing.
How do you do what you do?
My temperament and sensitivity have always predisposed me to a way of attending to subtleties in others. However, as a result of a car accident, I gained a laser-like ability to know what was going on at the energetic center of another. I can not explain “how” I do what I do, or sense what I sense. I would observe that animals anticipate earthquakes and ants know where to find sugar by qualities of sensing that are far subtler than we can imagine.
The simplest way to explain how I get information is to say that I am able to sense, some place beyond my physical body - bumps, ripples or places of perturbation in the fields of people and places. I am able to name these ineffable qualities in a manner that resonates with each individual.
How is what you do unique?
I find ways to unravel seemingly permanent tangles. I decipher subtle and previously undiscovered themes that block your engagement with life. I offer a vocabulary for unique experiences and inner realms of awareness. Rigorous attendance to what is underneath, rather than focus on the ego or personality agenda, enable us to focus on the core discomforts that prevent full embodiment. Unlike in therapy, meditation, coaching or yoga, I am not focusing on what you want to achieve, but what is present in your field to be attended to.
My giftedness in the arena of multidimensional awarenesses at the level of the core energetic enables me to work with numerous themes of a client all at the same time. Using the metaphor of a tangle in a thread or a necklace, while someone else would pull on 2 ends of the knot, and by doing so tighten the entire tangle, I am loosening numerous aspects of the tangle all at the same time. The ability to sense the themes in the field, and to find words for these threads and themes enables me to identify and keep up with complex patterns of processing in my gifted clients.
Because there is no philosophy or lens through which I am viewing you, it is truly individualized work. The validity of the work is verified by the laser-like accuracy of the insights, the immediate relief and release you feel as previously hidden dynamics are identified and by the dramatic positive changes you are able to experience in your life as a result of these insights. I know of no other person who offers this level of work.
What do you call what you do?
There is no term in the culture for this work. What I do is something I am not aware of anyone else doing. I call my work Insight Dynamics. I am a consultant who assists individuals in finding authentic and meaningful engagement in life.
How do you differ from a psychic?
The psychic ability is a sense, like smelling or hearing. Most of us have not developed this sense, nor do we tend to be born with it fully developed. Different psychics work in different ways. I cannot speak for other people. My work is about naming the blocks to authenticity. I do not predict the future. I work at the propriotheric level where subtle energy is sensed. I read energy fields.
How do you know what you know about me so quickly?
Our culture of denial and short sightedness makes an individual’s clear perception a surprising experience. We are not surprised when a dog smells things we can not smell, or a bird navigates by electromagnetic fields we can not feel or see. My own personal work has required a level of clearing that has increased my ability to perceive what exists in the fields of a person or a place.
Why do you only do phone work? Don’t you miss a lot working that way?
As my levels of perception have deepened, phone work has evolved as an efficient and desirable way to work. When meeting a client in person, I find that physical cues distract from attending to deep truths.
There is no question that phone work deprives you of many reassuring kinds of connection. This is one of the reasons why the work is not suited for many people. The work requires that you have a strong enough sense of self that you do not need to rely on me to be an emotional container. Our work together is not therapy.
How long does someone work with you?
The duration of the work is dependent upon your goals. I have clients who have worked with me once and still experience the benefits of the work years later. I work with some clients once a week for anywhere from several months to several years. For individuals who are constantly on the cutting edge in their fields, and who continue to be called to evolution, our work may be an integrated part of their unfolding.
You talk a great deal about moving beyond the culture. My religious beliefs are essential to who I am. Will this prohibit us from working together?
Every client I have worked with who has had strong religious beliefs (or any kind of practice that served as an orienting foundation) has found me to be respectful and honoring of his or her personal commitments. It has often been the case that there exists a chronic inner battle resulting from a lack of alignment between the individual’s core self and these beliefs. The nature of this battle has remained elusive or has had no resolution. Our work may include uncovering and addressing the conflict that prevents congruity. My image is of a tea cup and saucer that are intended to nest together. When there is an unidentified or ancient conflict preventing these 2 distinct, but related, aspects from right alignment, there is chronic discomfort.
You say that I will know in one session if this work is for me. How?
Within one session, you should feel that I have touched upon core conflicts in your life. I will describe what is going on at a level within you that others have failed to recognize.
You mention that we both decide if we work together—isn’t that my choice?
I work in a very different way than most people. I consider our work to be a co-creative process. I only work with clients who are at a point in their healing where they have a stable foundation from which to make leaps in self perception. The work I can do is often limited if someone is on medication. It is not appropriate for me to work with someone who is dealing with issues of addiction or who is in recovery from trauma.
There is a right time for me to work with a person. It may be that someone calls me and learns about me, yet, they need to postpone our work until they have done more of their historical work. Usually, the work with me turns basic understandings upside down. It is often in the rearrangement of core concepts that your core truth is perceived. The irony is that this reorientation is only possible when you are strong enough to tolerate the dissolution of core beliefs.
Do you work with children?
No.
Do you work with people in spiritual crisis?
No.
Why do you refer for bodywork and other clearing therapies? Why don’t you do that work yourself?
I work at a subtle level of energetic awareness. I am not suited for work in the physical field. Other clearing modalities have not called to me.