A YOGI'S WAY
Dharma and Therapy in Service of the Heart's Release
Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy: Conversation, Meditation, Inquiry
I am a Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee practicing under the supervision of Mary Owen, MFT #14190; Mary is the director and clinical supervisor at Grateful Heart Holistic Therapy Center. I currently see clients out of Grateful Heart's office located at 6536 Telegraph Avenue (near the Berkeley/Oakland border), and am also a pre-licensed member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT).
In addition to my theoretical and clinical training, my years of practicing and teaching meditation have trained me to see, be with, and to effectively address suffering both in myself and countless others. My interest and study of the relationship between psychotherapy and meditation has served my own growth well - it is my wish that this familiarity might assist those that feel so inclined.
Jack Kornfield discusses mindfulness practice and psychotherapy
(Multimedia webcast interview on Psychotherapy Networker)
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INITIAL SESSION
For those that would like to schedule an initial session, please contact me either via email or phone: (510) 239-SATI (7284)
For matters that require immediate assistance, please call:
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In an effort to securely anchor, ground, and propel our sessions, together we’ll cultivate a safe and nurturing therapeutic atmosphere by which to explore this work and its many possibilities – an atmosphere in which we’ll both experience the freedom to make conscious choices that serve your healing; and thus also the freedom to let go of that which obstructs it. Thank you for hearing the call that beckons us each a bit closer to actualizing our fullest potential and well-being – this initial openness to the unknown is quite often the most difficult step of all. I wish you happiness and ease on this often daring and courageous journey.
'THE REAL WORK'
It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
-Wendell Berry
MY COMMITMENT & PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
My commitment to serving you as therapist is born out of a deep gratitude for the inner relief and freedom that my own relationship to self-inquiry practices has provided; serving others in this way is my way of thanking those who’ve supported me similarly over the years, and I am grateful that you might consider me an apt guide upon your own intimate and inner journey. Fundamental to my therapeutic orientation is an acknowledgment that we are all interconnected in some beautifully supportive way. At certain times, the way I work will be more specifically informed by my training in the areas of Buddhist meditation, classical yoga, and both Eastern and Western philosophies.
M.A. Counseling Psychology: Holistic Program that leads to MFT Licensure
Currently I am in the process of completing JFK University’s Transpersonal Psychology Program, with the intention of further integrating the practices of meditation, therapy, embodiment, and conscious relationship into my own life and work. Drawing on many wisdom traditions, both my meditation teaching and clinical orientation are centrally rooted in a mindfulness-based perspective. Generally speaking, mindfulness is a means by which we can more directly and honestly experience our lives – it is a continuously unfolding capacity, intention, and way of meeting our experience in any given moment.
CURRENT AVAILABILITY
Mondays, 1pm - 5pm
Fridays, 9am - 5pm
CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: Send a Message
Phone: (510) 239-SATI (7284)
NOTE: I offer a free 15-minute initial phone consultation.
Please phone or email to inquire.
PAYMENT DETAILS
All payments are to be made directly to the Grateful Heart Holistic Therapy Center, and are to be made via either cash or check at the time of our sessions. The donate button below is linked to a PayPal account established solely for Jonathan's psychotherapy sessions at Grateful Heart, and can be used if necessary (please add 5% service charge to your payment when using this button - thank you).
COST OF SESSIONS
$70/session
CANCELLATION POLICY & TELEHEALTH DETAILS
Phone Sessions are available within the United States
SKYPE Sessions may be available in the USA and elsewhere
*Please honor a 24-hour cancellation policy, no exceptions
NOTE: For both phone and SKYPE sessions, your financial offering must be received no later than 24hrs prior to our time together - this is what confirms and holds your appointment with me; without this 24hrs 'monetary notice', your appointment cannot be held and thus will need to be rescheduled. (In person sessions will make financial offering at our meetings)
LOCATION OF SESSIONS
GRATEFUL HEART HOLISTIC THERAPY CENTER
6536 Telegraph Avenue (Berkeley/Oakland Border)
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DESCRIPTION OF SESSIONS
Sessions are 50 minutes in length, and consist of conversation and dialogue regarding some bit of relevant personal investigation, meditation instruction directed towards a specific area of need in our lives, or a combination of these two elements. Using a blend of pure awareness and our thinking mind, we hope to unearth the hidden and to better know the partially obscured.
My clinical orientation and approach are rooted in a health-based perspective, and our efforts together will focus more readily on moving ‘towards’ health, fluidity, and integration rather than moving ‘away’ from illness, stagnation, and fragmentation – these latter expressions often dissipate when the former are nurtured. At other times we’ll allow the wisdom of non-doing and stillness to be our strongest ally, this in an effort to directly experience how the process itself supports an emergence of our own innate and spontaneous healing abilities. Witnessing and supporting you in your own capacity to self-heal is one of the greatest joys in my life, and is why I am drawn to this work as an expression of my own natural and evolving humanity.
Unlike other helping professionals, for the most part I do not work with ‘categories’ of people or even categories of symptoms (although of course at times these things will be very much included in the work we’ll do). In my experience, overly defined methods and approaches oftentimes overemphasize pathology and problem; and rather than focusing treatment on multiple symptoms, I prefer to relate to the entire person, and to do so in a manner that directly acknowledges and honors them as an organic whole.
"A person's experience cannot be figured out by others,
or even by the person experiencing it. It cannot be ex-
pressed in common labels. It has to be met, found, felt,
attended to, and allowed to show itself."
-Eugene Gendlin from Focusing