Meditations On Meditation
It's nearly impossible for me to get through a day providing therapy without mentioning meditation. I hear an individual's negative...
Love In the Time of Covid-19
For the first time in 100-years, the earth is experiencing a pandemic. The majority of humanity is operating from a framework of love for...
Practice Update: Moving from Seattle to Portland, Maine
As of May 1st, 2019, I will be practicing in Portland, Maine as my primary business location. I will not be accepting any new...
Contact Forms: Retroflection
Retroflection is the last contact form left to be discussed in my recent series of blogs on this subject. In many ways, Retroflection is...
Contact Forms: Projection & Deflection
The specific contact forms of Projection and Deflection seem to get more air time in pop-culture and movies ("You're projecting!", "Stop...
Contact Forms: Confluence & Introjection
In my previous blog I discussed the Contact Cycle, mentioning how disturbances to the cycle can take different forms other than contact....
The Contact Cycle
Attuning to, following, and understanding "contact" is probably the most important figure for a gestalt therapist to track. Contact is...
Contact: What's In the Room Is Sometimes the World
As a gestalt therapist, I work from a here-and-now perspective with contact awareness. "Contact", in gestalt phenomenology, is described...
Getting Along or Getting Known
An interesting article was posted in the New York Times a few weeks back entitled "Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person" (read it here -...
Resiliency: The Golden Thread
*Adapted from a blog I wrote as a Pongo Publishing mentor in collaboration with Seattle Public Library - April 2013 (part 4 of 4). In the...