Training;

The most important psychological training I have experienced was undertaken in two long term apprenticeships, that and years of personal therapy, which is essential for anyone providing therapeutic support.

Studies and Certifications:

Gestalt Practitioner- GP

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner- SEP

Four years training with Kathy Kain (Director of Education for Peter Levine’s, Somatic Experiencing, training program), training in her unique style of body work, visceral, endocrine, fascia, and muscular style of trauma release.

Extensive use of Enneagram, character-type analysis, based on the value of understanding the drives that tend to dominate in our behavioral life, and how to differentiate between ourselves and our what drives us.

Studies in Bio-energetics (body types ala Lowen and Pierrakos, Bioenergetics), further studies, Christoper Bollas, Shwartz, Colin Ross, focus in attachment theory.

Daily Practice (began 1990), studies in Mahayana Buddhism, and continuing mind training in Indo-Tibetan studies, Longchenpa, Maitreya/Atisa, Nagarjuna/Candrakirti and others.  Studies of contemporary teachers (Dzongnsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Adzom Rinpoche).