I do not have a formula.
I serve my clients in achieving a integrated consciousness of self. I guide and support them as they undo the knots in their golden chains. I improvise and research based on the needs of my client. I can work transformatively and compassionately with the forces of evil. I know hatred, anger, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, loneliness. I know nutrition and pharmaceuticals. I know meditation and body work. I do not judge. I know how to love. I am patient, but I will push hard sometimes.

I meet my clients in lots of places.
We meet in my home, their home, workplace, parks, bars, restaurants, anywhere that meets the need. I can work over the phone or over email. I meet my clients for a minimum of 60 minutes weekly, bi- weekly or monthly. I have met with clients for 8 hours intensives or weekend intensives. Again, whatever it takes. Clients have worked with me for several sessions or for several years. I generally meet my client's partners, parents, children, friends, siblings. Some of my dearest friends began as clients.

I share my own struggles and hardly see myself as some kind of authority.
My clients deserve all the credit ... I am just there to read the maps, call the cabs and do the laundry.

Experience a 20 minute introductory session at no cost.
Call me at 646-797-9669. I am in the Eastern time zone.

Fees:
My hourly fee is $120. My fee includes short "emergency" phone and email consults inbetween sessions. Longer phone and email consults are billable in fifteen minute increments.

If you are financially challenged right now, I am open to creating an agreement that will work for both of us.

I accept payment by check or credit card.


Click here to download my Client Agreement. This clearly articulates all the agreements between my clients and myself in our professional counseling relationship.

THE ELEMENTS OF MY WORK WITH MY CLIENTS

Sacred Attention
Each of us needs and deserves sacred attention. We need this frequently and regularly. Sacred attention offers loving and compassionate interest and observation that focuses on the unfolding humanity of the subject. Sacred attention is free of prejudice and expectation. We each need sacred attention from another human soul and from our own soul. There are five soul gestures in sacred attention: wonder, awe, reverence gratitude and devotion. In the time I spend with my clients, I provide sacred attention. It is a quality of listening that allows me to perceive on multiple levels the life experience and personal destiny of my client. My client soon learns to sacredly attend to his or her self. To begin to reflect one's own inner and outer life with love and compassion is the beginning of healing. To wonder at the mystery and riddles of the receiving and giving that has shaped our sense of self is the beginning of personal freedom. The time together in this space of sacred attention becomes a time of healing and a time of inspiration. It is not nirvana or bliss, it is hard, intense and sometimes painful work. The results are a vibrant individuality, a confident sense of possibility, and a clarity of thinking and commitment to one's future.

Improvisation
Working with another human being requires improvisational creativity. My work is not about fitting my client into a given and fixed perspective or methodology. I am continually designing a working process that is inspired by my client's individual needs, perceptions, style of learning, and readiness.

Forensic Approach
During a session all my perceptual skills are continually scanning for the clues and evidence that will lead to the key insights that move my client to full self expression. Sometimes it is looking for a needle in a haystack, sometimes it is simply pointing out there is a rhinoceros in your bathtub.

Dynamic Relationship Between Biology and Biography
We are challenged on two levels of our lives: the biological and the biographical. The path to a free and loving relationship with our selfhood must weave through both of these levels. We seek harmony and health in both. The complexity of our individual biological systems is shaped by the inherited designs of our DNA, our diet and physical activity, our environment, and the impact of biographical stress and trauma. If a client is struggling with chronic fear, sadness or swings of mood and energy, there are two paths to healing - the restoration of balance to the biological and the telling of personal biography to uncover the roots of trauma, confusion, doubt and entrapment. With these two vital areas explored and understood the capacity for new ways of thinking, feeling and willing our lives is liberated and strengthened.

Two of the effective ways I approach the restoration of balance in biology and biography are neuro-endocrine nutritional counseling and use of custom flower essence blends. Neuro-endocrine challenges are the biological root of depression, mania and anxieties. I offer my clients guidance in using amino acid supplements to establish or restore neuro-endocrine well-being. Flower essences are profoundly effective in bringing harmony to the body, soul and spirit. Many of my clients find the supplements and essences transform their sense of inner peace and strength.

Need for Fulfillment and Recognition of Destiny
Who am I? What do I want? Why am I here? Why do I face so many challenges? What is love? These are some of the existential questions that we all face in our soul. What we feel as a compelling desire is our destiny. However, many of us have difficulty articulating the desire. We can't build the picture. We know we are meant to do something, one thing, maybe, but we only know what we are doing right here, right now isn't it. I work with my clients to move from vague feeling to clearly articulated intention.

Intimacy and Trust
As an advisor, counselor, healer, teacher, I must know my client intimately. To do this I often see my clients in their homes and where they work. Occasionally, we will do a session walking in a park or having a meal in a restaurant. I usually meet and interact with my client's family members and close friends. I see them in their real life. This tells me so much more about them. I also spend a minimum of 90 minutes with each client. I have spent 3 hours to 12 hours with clients. This builds intimacy, flexibility and creativity. It allows for relaxation and trust. Too often in my years as a client, I felt frustrated with the 50 minute session and wondering if the therapist or coach had a real sense of who I was in real life. My clients all remark at the quality of the relationship and the level of transformation and development that occurs in working this way. Likewise, my clients learn about my life. I am not an authority with a secret life. I see my clients in my home. I fix them tea. I've been known to offer a beer or a glass of wine when they show up stressed and need to relax. All this intimacy builds a warm and trusting relationship.

Rhythm
Rhythm is so critical and so lost in today's lifestyles. Breathing is rhythm. Every organ in our body has rhythm. The sun gives us our daily rhythm and our seasonal rhythm. Digestion has a rhythm. Sleeping has a rhythm. Rhythm restores, nourishes, detoxifies, transforms. Soul work has a rhythm. It is very important to establish regular rhythm for our work together. Weekly is the most common. But other rhythms can work well. This depends on a number of factors: available time, financial considerations, intensity of need, and the desired outcomes.