What is Zen Integrative Counseling?

Integration Toward Wholeness

Zen

While we will identify and set goals together, our work will begin with and center around building capacity to be fully present with what’s happening for you right now, in the moment; so that we can use this ground of presence to look toward where you want to go.

Another unique part of this approach is the incorporation of meditation techniques, teachings from Zen and other Buddhist traditions, and the development of practices and rituals that work for you, to support you in centering your truest values into the activities of day-to-day life.

Integrative

A facet of contemporary life that causes suffering for many of us is early learning to faction off different parts of ourselves. In the Zen Integrative approach, we will work together to identify, honor and include the full spectrum of what is present for you in any given moment, including the parts you may have historically been told to ignore, to work from a more complete picture of what is impacting, and what needs to be attended to in any given situation you are working with.

This approach is also integrative in that while we will utilize tools and perspectives that come from a psychological perspective, we will also center a spiritual and social/cultural lens that we identify together depending on your beliefs, values, cultural conditioning and unique perspective on your life and what you’re working with.