Depth Coaching and the Potential for Life-Changing Growth
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
About This View of Living
I have experience as a psychotherapist (I am a licensed professional counselor in Illinois) and have mindfulness training and experience. I also have education in philosophy. Most importantly, I try to live in a way that supports my own values, and maybe can help support yours, as well.
I work from a place that first wants to try to empathically feel into how you see life and where your challenges lie. I then use a variety of tools from various disciplines to help you grow and live a more meaningful life. If something doesn’t work for you, we keep trying, together, until it fits your own unique, and personal, way of being. This work is co-created, and at its best, it can be transformative and can change how life feels, in all circumstances and contexts.
We live in an age that is deeply anti-human. I believe that when two people make the courageous effort to meet honestly and as completely as possible and to not hide behind masks or status or fear, a real encounter can take place. In that encounter, oftentimes growth and insight can be found. Ways of living that were hidden and blocked can be released and used as fuel to orient towards what matters to us. This is not a predictable process, but can take both of us to places we may not have anticipated.
“The rock bottom concern of each human being is the simple but profound fact of being alive.
Life is the question we all face; living is the answer each of us gives.”
-J.T. Bugental