“Soul work gets to the point of things. I’ve never been to a therapist like Kristen. Most therapy stays on the surface; Kristen brings it deeper, to the place where you hurt.
That’s the key – support in that deep, bottom place, bringing you forward. Most therapists don’t do that.”
Being aware of awareness opens a portal of being where peace abides…
Awareness is our open, empty, unlimited being that “knows” our experience and perceptions of the world. Like the space of sky, awareness allows the birds, clouds and weather of our thoughts and sensations to move through us in peace. Being and awareness abide as an unchanging field of wholeness out of which arises the ever-changing world of appearances.
Soul is our innermost placeless place — known in the heart of Love —where wholeness being meets individual-ness. In this union arises soul seed essence - a spiritual blueprint of sorts. This blueprint of soul seed essence contains qualities and potentials but these need connection with source being to actually manifest. From the depth of soul we are moved by love, and guided back home to peace of being.
Soul expresses a bit like the motion of a snow cloud. From the cloud of wholeness — appearing as watery soul stuff — snowflakes form. Snowflakes are made of the same watery cloud stuff, yet appear as individual, unique patterns that express beauty, nourish life as water, and then vanish to become wholeness of cloud again.
Soul is the fabric of love — inseparable with being — that calls to us from our depths, to draw us toward what we love. As humans, we can tell by our living experience now, how close we are to soul and being. When we are distant, our longing for love or whispering discontent is our suffering. When we are close, we are at peace.
Soul has nothing to do with our body, or personality, or unique qualities or identity. Soul is about depths of love and being. As humans, we get confused. We feel soul to be ourself. Yet, believe we are this body-mind that moves through the world in distinct, apparent form. Soul and being never move yet the dance of existence is like a magical manifestation arising through interdependent interconnection with all life.
Transpersonal integration holds a view that includes transcendent all-knowing wholeness of being, and the unique, distinct and personal nature of every human soul journey. The display of humanity’s manifestation moves as countless, diversified forms of complexity, meaning, and experience that are beyond what mind can understand.
To keep it simple, changing forms don’t lead to unchanging happiness. Only unchanging wholeness of being is peace. The soul work and play offered here is designed to help you understand, heal and untangle knots of needless identities in a process not unlike an oyster that births a pearl.
You dissolve into love, beauty and peace of being, and soul seed essence ripens to shine as happiness and the unique beauty of you being fully YOU!
Awareness of awareness itself is soul work!
“Soul work has integrated disowned parts of myself, I used to avoid anger and would cry instead. Feeling sensitive and afraid, I would try to control the outer world. Through this work with Kristen, I am learning tools that help me feel anger and hatred - to not be so afraid of them - and find they turn to inner strength and personal power. I direct my own energy. I am now arrived at a place of more wholeness and ensuing wisdom.”
Jungian Therapy &Soul Work
Transpersonal Integration Counseling is rooted in Carl Jung’s language and approach to the psyche, further described in our Jungian Therapy offerings.
The training for therapists in depth psychology is experiential. We want to understand healing and soul work from the bones of our own descent into psyche. We fully engage to explore dreams and the imaginal, as well as our body-mind and range of emotions to dive deep and swim on our own in the world of therapy as a client over time. Therapy combined with Jungian psychological studies and training are profound education.
In additional to the Jungian Modality, Transpersonal Integration Counseling integrates two other flavors of psychology, and the spiritual path of non-duality into this living body of soul work.
The first is Voice Dialogue authored by Hal and Sidra Stone. Their profound work helps us see and integrate the myriad parts inside us. These “selves” are sub-personalities and include protectors, vulnerable child parts, and primary selves that run the show, and more. Disowned selves are the least conscious “selves.” We listen to understand these inner parts and how they live in us through an Aware Ego process that develops conscious awareness and choice.
The second flavor comes from Gestalt therapy techniques that center in present-time with a client-centered focus, and are often used in combination with other body-centered modes of expression. The gestalt approach and techniques work well in soul work as we use role-play to engage situations or relationships to learn and integrate new ways of moving. Dance, art, drama and creative expression are also welcome.
Methods Of Discovery
Methods of discovery allow exploration of your specific psychological needs, wishes, and healing challenges. Soul work utilizes myriad methods of discovery to fully support your health and happiness on all levels.
Here, you can explore the treatment methods offered through Transpersonal Integration Counseling, starting with the summaries below:
“What an incredibly skilled, gifted leader you are to transport us to such a calm state. Your soft, loving manner is contagious.”
Settling & Inquiry
We open each session with a guided settling meditation to ground and relax. Releasing stress, thinking, tensions and unwanted energies, we deepen through breath and body awareness to open, to fully arrive
Living into the questions of our lives with open, unknowing curiosity is a deep aspect of transpersonal integration. Kristen offers a powerful inquiry tool that illuminates “what is really going on!” in the living moments of life.
Inquiry is not a conceptual or analytical process but rather explores states of being to become aware of the thinking-feeling-sensing body in the immediacy of now to see, learn and move in new ways.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Simply put, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the art and science of personal excellence. Art because humans bring unique personality and style to their individual expression, and science because there are discoverable patterns within high level performance, and desirable states of being that can be mapped and modeled to learn and embody positive change.
Understanding how to effectively learn and move allows us to re-pattern behaviors. Specific NLP processes can re-imprint past memory, integrate conflicting parts, shift attention in the present, and create better templates for new futures.
Jungian Therapies
Dream work includes night time dreams, inner visions, fantasies and the dream of your waking life.
Using Jungian concepts, together we explore the soul language of symbol on both the personal and archetypal levels to understand greater depths, recover missing pieces and heal.
Sand tray, soul imagery, and active imagination can address specific issues through creativity and the exploration of symbol to add resources, reveal what’s hidden, and open knowing and new direction.
Relationships
Relationship is the arena of our lives that shines with the immediacy and aliveness of inter-being. Through relating well, we embody new skills and grow greater capacity for shared happiness. We practice staying centered in being, as we engage to enjoy each moment of our precious lives.
Learning and practicing healthy communication keeps channels of relationships clear. The art of appreciation and sending messages of love are medicine we can share with others.
Skillful relating is hugely important whether in a partnership or single. And being a best friend to self is the beginning, middle and end of the soul’s journey home.
Enneagram Personality Typology
Enneagram knowledge offer a profound system of spiritual psychology, describing 9 distinct temperaments or “Enneatypes.” Each has a specific desire, fear, style of defense, habit of attention, strategy of avoidance and more.
The power of this knowledge wakes you to inner understanding, helps you better know others, grows compassion, and points to the specific direction for greater freedom and Presence of being.
Kristen can help you find your type, understand what it means and create a toolkit designed to apply the teachings to your life, expand awareness of your inner landscapes and move in freer, happier ways.
Empowerment & Energy Work
Energy work is woven through every session and all stages of the work. Kristen has 20 years of experience with energetic healing and empowerment modalities and holds a field of light and love that supports your process.
Energetic skills and teachings help you:
Find your energetic center and anchor in the present moment
Understand the anatomy of your energy body and field
Claim your energy and establish healthy boundaries
Clear negative energies
Stay centered in yourself while relating to others
“I’ve learned to visualize and listen to different aspects of my experience, and then be able to make better, more informed choices in my actions.”