“Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, God searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed – the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.”
— Thomas Keating
Therapy Sessions
Therapy expresses itself in many different forms. Whatever the form, it is always about transformation; it is about bringing presence into those parts of ourselves that we are afraid of acknowledging. Usually this healing process only begins once our habitual patterns - our programs for happiness - fail us. When this happens, we realize the way we’re going through life isn’t working anymore and we want to change, even if we don’t yet know how.
We meet people where they’re at and support them in their transformative healing process, at whatever stage along the journey.
1:1 Sessions with James
Somatic Trauma Therapy - Touch Therapy - Spiritual Dialogue - Movement Practice -Contemplative Sits
1:1 Sessions with Kayla
Clinical Herbal Therapy - Prepared Herbal Medicines - Plant Spirit Healing Treatments - Contemplative Tea Sits
“In the very intimacy of the willingness to become completely vulnerable, they unexpectedly come upon within themselves a depth of preciousness. That is, ‘I’m really here. I really count.’ Or, ‘My life is a gift.’ Or, ‘There’s something about me that no matter what happened to me, it doesn’t have the power to destroy who I essentially am.’ They experience that.
And when I bear witness to them, I say back to them, ‘You know I think what’s going in the room, right now, the way that you are with me right now, this is what got abused. This is what your parents didn’t see.’ Whatever it is… that then in this therapeutic alliance—that is our relationship with each other— we form kind of a monastic community of two. We’re like a sangha of two.
We’re like two wounded people who have experientially accessed within ourselves a preciousness that transcends suffering. And the therapeutic sessions from that point on become a process from which a person learns to reground themselves in that preciousness, and out of that preciousness to keep touching the edges of their suffering, until the suffering little by little by little dissolves in that preciousness.”
— James Finley
Contact us.
livingpresenceministry@gmail.com
Kayla
(714) 345 - 5360
James
(801) 808 - 9591