Individual consultation one time or ongoing.
Life-changing psychotherapy involves more than the therapist being supportive and asking you how you feel. It is more than just talking about your problem(s) — it involves real, measurable improvements in your quality of life. We will work together to make sure those changes happen. Coaching with a licensed professional is required when the client is out of state or when the therapist and client know each other socially. Coaching is also done by unlicensed people who are sometimes well-trained, and sometimes are not.
RELATIONSHIP COUNSELING
It’s not true that all relationships are difficult and require hard work, although it may require a lot of work on oneself to get to that state. We provide help with improving communication, focusing on what works, sexuality, intimacy, and working through longterm issues.
HOW IS TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY DIFFERENT FROM MAINSTREAM COUNSELING?
People often ask me how transpersonal psychotherapy differs from mainstream counseling. It differs in three major ways: how transpersonal therapists are trained, the context in which we hold therapy, and in some cases, the techniques we use or recommend to facilitate change.
This context we offer is open to spirituality and alternate ways of knowing, making the space safe for people who identify as “spiritual,” i.e. those for whom spiritual search is an integral and compelling part of their life. Spiritual people are often reluctant to enter mainstream therapy with good reason, as few conventional therapists know how to honor what is outside their own mindset. Spiritual people want to be able to talk with their therapists about their experiences with altered states of consciousness, their thirst for higher knowledge and abilities. They want to be understood for wanting to be free, truly free, even if it means changing the status quo of the mainstream culture. They want help to untangle unhelpful patterns from the past the same as other clients, but they want it from people who have gotten free themselves.
Therapy from the heart
The transpersonal context is one of support for alternate ways of knowing, of understanding that a person may not want to adapt themselves to a culture that is itself sick, and that ours is not the highest state of evolution possible. It’s knowing that sometimes the greatest things humans can know come from the heart rather than the mind, that compassion may be a greater value than consumerism, that striving to reach one’s potential is more fascinating than owning and wearing the right brands. The truly transpersonal embraces the brands too, why not? But for people who have glimpsed a reality beyond that beckons and won’t let them go, it becomes of utmost importance to remove the blocks that stand in the way of resting in the quiet space where lies the Truth of who we really are.
Techniques that transpersonal therapists utilize may include meditation, energy work, or alternative modalities. The important thing, however, is sound clinical skills, the ability to really “get” the client and the therapist’s commitment to their own ongoing growth.
TELEPHONE / ZOOM COUNSELING
Available for those who are not in the LA area.
CONSULTATION & TRAINING FOR THERAPISTS & MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
TANTRIC DATING COACHING
Workshops, groups, and individual coaching, online or in person, for the spiritual single.
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Quotes from Catherine’s clients
I would not still be together with my husband if it weren’t for you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I’ve become my honest self through talking with you. Things you’ve said reverberate out into my life and into the world.
Your words have been so helpful to me. I’m going to write a book called What Would Catherine Say?