Dharma and Therapy in Service of the Heart's Release

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'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.

In public classes students have the opportunity to listen to, practice, and integrate what it is that I offer.  In private sessions there is the unique opportunity for me to listen to a student or client's personal perspective on their own life and practice.  Regardless of the form we choose to facilitate our time together, it is ultimately each moment's reality that will lead us, side by side, to the unfolding of greater clarity and knowing - when we rest in what is true, in the one who knows this as present-moment truth, then our own wakeful presence can naturally self-liberate.

SCHEDULE & 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 to help us determine if working together might serve your current wishes and needs.

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

General Sliding Scale Range: $50-$125

Scale varies slightly from time to time, please inquire.

We will discuss your monetary offering during our first session.

Together we will design a plan that appropriately suits your needs.

COST VARIES, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

What this means is that depending upon the desired frequency of our sessions and your current life situation, a price range will naturally emerge that suits your needs; and based upon this personal range you will then decide upon an appropriate and personally significant amount to offer for our shared time.

Your selecting a per session rate (which once chosen remains the same), and my confirmation that I am available to see you at that rate and during an agreed upon time and frequency, is the process by which we enter into a professional relationship.  My time and services are then offered to you, and I am grateful for your choosing to share your life and life-practice with me - I very much look forward to this possibility.

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 is to be sent no later than 24hrs prior to our time together - your offering 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 offerings at our meetings)

LOCATION OF SESSIONS

GRATEFUL HEART HOLISTIC THERAPY CENTER

6536 Telegraph Avenue (Berkeley/Oakland Border)

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