Spiritual Counseling and Meditation
Nondualism, Spiritual Counseling & Meditation To Connect With Your Spiritual Path
Are You Seeking Connection With Spirit & Energetic Flow?
Are you on a path of spiritual growth and discovery, wanting to deepen your connection with spirit and the interconnectedness of it all?
Perhaps you’re experiencing dissatisfaction or a sense of emptiness in your life, wondering why feelings of fulfillment are fleeting. Or maybe you’ve experienced a loss, or are in the midst of or just coming out of a major event or life transition and feel called to go inward to explore life and its purpose and meaning.
It might be that you’re thinking about why we’re all here and what it all means. You may want to heal and open your heart, with a strong sense that there’s more to your life and its purpose than the mundane status quo.
Maybe you’ve sought out different forms of therapy, yet now want to explore the human condition, suffering, awakening and your personal experience through a more spiritual lens. It may be that you’re familiar with nondualism, seeking a more intrinsic connection to the energetic oneness of the universe, exploring what “reality” is.
Do you feel called to nurture a deeper connection to a higher power and engage in spiritual counseling, exploration and meditation practices to move into your most connected, awake and authentic self?
Explore & Expand Your Journey
Feeling incomplete or like there’s something significant missing from your life can create feelings of frustration, loneliness and unease. You may have tried various therapies and other forms of healing in an attempt to make sense of this human experience, yet still find yourself seeking, and perhaps suffering.
While suffering is an inherent part of the human condition, you might sense that there are ways to alleviate it and experience more peace, presence, curiosity, wonder and awe in daily life. Or, it might be that your life is going fairly well, yet you feel an innate knowing that there is a deeper and more connected way of living and experiencing relationships with others, yourself and the world beyond.
Whether you feel a deep connection to spirit and want to go deeper or are new to the spiritual path, an experienced, spiritually-minded therapist can serve as an ally and a guide. As someone who has been on a spiritual path myself and working with clients for many decades, I offer guidance and new perspectives, as well as meditation practices. Together, we deepen inquiries as you expand your journey and begin living with more curiosity, flexibility, fluidity and contentment.
Non-Duality As A Path To Alleviate Suffering
The nonduality perspective is the underpinning of my form of spiritual counseling and takes a very different approach to healing and growth than traditional Western therapy. In therapy, much of the work is centered around developing the individual, fortifying his or her strengths and helping one heal and maximize potential through enhancing one’s sense of empowerment through will and choice.
Unlike traditional Western therapy, Eastern spiritual disciplines are not as concerned with the personal “self.” In many Eastern teachings, an autonomous individual is seen as illusionary, and that it is the universal life energy—and not the individual thinker or doer—that is the source of all thinking and acting.
Within the free, dynamic and ever changing flow of universal source energy, nothing the apparent individual self did or can ever do could have been any different in that particular moment in time. Yet, that apparent individual self has mistakenly assumed itself to be the source of its life direction and accomplishment and, insomuch, we continue to suffer.
In non-dualistic spiritual counseling, you may begin to understand that will and choice are an illusion. The goal becomes not to connect with personal identity, but rather to tap into fundamental, universal identity and realize that there is a non-personal, spontaneous flow of life that you are not separate from. Insomuch, you’ll come to know yourself as an expression of the universal, creative energetic force. Once you realize that there is no “you” doing anything, you’ll also realize that there is no individual control. And, you’ll also see that there is no “you” at the whim of things or who could possibly be a victim. There’s just the creative flow of energy being expressed as you and everyone else.
In adopting this perspective, you become more able to develop a deeper sense of connection to everything, while letting go of guilt, shame and blame, and, therefore, experiencing some relief from suffering.
Nondualism Spiritual Counseling Can Provide You With New Perspectives And A Freeing Path Forward
Through various spiritual explorations and considerations, I help you look at everyday experiences through new eyes. Within this exploration, you can begin to realize that life is just happening and that you’re not doing anything to make it happen. Just as blood moves through your body and breath flows into your lungs, there is an inexplicable energy that connects us all and guides our human experience.
If the ideas presented in initial spiritual therapy sessions feel esoteric, we can work backward, in detailed examination until you come to the understanding that what happened and is happening couldn’t have happened any other way. As you begin to understand that there is no “you” doing anything, it becomes natural to let go of the guilt, shame, blame, regret and discontentment that have kept you feeling stuck, in pain or experiencing a sense of emptiness or lack in your life. You can stop blaming yourself for things of the past and, rather, use your newfound insight to understand life and the inextricable flow of energy that we’re all a part of on a deep level. You can realize that what happened occurred because life chose to express itself in that particular way, at that particular time.
Nondualism is the foundation for this work, and I understand this spiritual perspective isn’t for everyone. I believe that there are many spiritual paths, and if you are just becoming interested in spirituality, we can use mindfulness, meditation and/or other less abstruse approaches to serve as a gateway into this deeper work.
In conjunction with spiritual counseling, we can also draw from traditional therapy approaches, which can help you navigate the specific challenges and relationship issues that inevitably come up as you move through life. Together, we can find and explore a path that resonates with you as you embark upon this spiritual, healing and energetic journey.
If you are open and ready to clearly and consciously examine your experience, spiritual counseling can help you tap into the inexplicable source energy of life. Rather than fight against the natural flow of energy, you can accept life as it is and understand that change happens all the time. Feelings of struggle, fatigue, failure and anxiety can be alleviated and replaced with intrinsic feelings of freedom, fullness and ease.
Embark On A Healing, Expansive Spiritual Path: Let’s Connect.
Whether you are seeking a therapeutic experience, a spiritual path or both, I can help. With the support and guidance of an experienced spiritual counselor and skilled therapist, you can explore your human experience, connect to something bigger and deeper than yourself and feel more centered, balanced and alive.
As a warm and experienced therapist and spiritual counselor, I’m happy to hear about your experience and what’s drawing you toward spiritual counseling and meditation, as well as to answer any questions you have about this work and my practice. You can schedule a free consultation using the link at the bottom of the page. You can also call either of my office locations directly. I see clients at my Upper West Side NYC office, my Weston, CT office, as well as offer online therapy.
New York, NY: 212-874-9402
Weston, CT: 203-544-9116
It is possible to connect with the oneness of it all, feel more deeply attuned to yourself, others and the greater world, and develop a new, more fluid and flexible way of experiencing your life.
I look forward to connecting.