What are some of the results I can expect from doing
Focusing?
For work in the conditioned sphere of our lives, Focusing offers a powerful yet gentle approach. 

Facing life transitions can be tough, confusing, bewildering. Through  guided sessions, you will be able to identify issues
wanting clarification and new direction.These may be affecting your decisions, creating a sense of confusion or lack of direction, blocking your life-forward momentum. The Focusing approach enables you to tap your own wellspring  of knowing, with your own personal style and pace. You will learn to attend to that inner knowing here and now, with a nurturing, accepting attitude that will show you the next  best step forward.

Reasonable expectations of this work are a greater sense  of clarity and life-purpose, increasing freedom from self-criticism and depression, and improvement in your relationships through  better listening and self-knowledge.
While the starting point may be specific personal or  professional problems, this inner work can lead to taking  your place more fully in the world.

As you develop your own ability to listen to your felt senses, you become more present and available to yourself, to others, to LIFE! You develop the “ear of a bodhisattva,” one who responds to the calls of the world. It is in this sense that the work is truly spiritual in nature. When you are freer of habitual patterns that hinder your joy and
energy, you are more “in the now,” awake and alive in your
everyday life and available to others.  You develop the courage to act on your inner wisdom.

Maybe you are in a period of growth and creativity. Sometimes all that energy can be overwhelming! Find the best way to channel your resources and creative force. I can guide you as you work through creative imagery, ideas, something still fuzzy that wants to be drawn into clarity and expression. Focusing can be applied to writing, music, and other creative endeavors with exciting results.

 How will you work with me?

 First, I encourage  you to give me a call and have a free twenty-minute consultation on whether my approach feels right for you. After reading the information on this site, give me a call. You can tell me the kinds of issues or projects you would like to work on, or possibly the Nondual Coaching approach feels right for you.  I can give you the flavor of how it is to work with me, and we can see if it feels right.

As we begin the Focusing journey together, we will schedule a fifty-minute block of time when we can settle in for an uninterrupted session, and you give me a call or meet with me. I will be your companion in this process of transformation, at your pace, in the way you need to move forward with your life. You can think of my role as that of a personal trainer, helping you build “muscle” to be able to effectively exercise this skill of inner knowing on your own. 
 
The  Focusing process involves a preliminary period, similar to a guided meditation,  where I will lead you into greater contact with a bodily sense of your issue. From  here, you’ll either invite the issue you’ve already decided to work on, or allow whatever freshly wants your attention to unfold and come into clarity.

 Along with many aspects of Inner Relationship Focusing, developed by Ann Weiser Cornell, Ph. D. and Barbara  McGavin, I will draw on approaches from my Zen Buddhist training and Clinical  Pastoral Education to assist your  work.

 Find out about My Fees by clicking the My Fees tab at the top  or Contact Me to set up a phone consultation.


 



 


   

What is true  is already so. Owning up to it doesn’t make it worse. Not being open to it 
doesn’t make it go away. And because it’s true, it is there to be interacted  with… People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.” 
 

Eugene Gendlin, Ph. D.,  originator of Focusing


 

"[Focusing] is  a simple method that helps ordinary people not only to be with their
difficult  feelings and realize that they are, actually, doorways to inner freedom, but  also to begin to access their 'body knowing' (as opposed to 'head  knowing') on an ongoing basis as a primary source for that trusting of yourself."

               Janet Jiryu  Abels,  Zen Sensei