Embodied Relational Experiential Somatic Transpersonal Psychotherapist
Hello. I go by Chuck. It’s not the best name for me, but I’ve spent decades trying to find one that fit better and decided to just go with what I’ve got.
I identify as a psychotherapist, as my focus is on depth psychology, not short term symptom oriented treatment. It seems like our society may have forgotten that the etymology of the word “psychology” means study of the soul. So I consider my role to be a holder of healing container large enough to include and work with all parts of you, including your mind, emotions, body, soul, and all of your relations. My own healing journey has led me to experiences as a student and client of psychotherapy, dreamwork, bodywork, yoga, meditation, nature based rituals such as vision quest, sweat lodge, medicine assisted therapy, and much more. I’ve even trained to offer, lead, and supervise many of these modalities including with MAPS, School of Lost Borders, Lakota people and African people.
After brief moments of thinking each one of these things was the best thing ever and the medicine everyone needs, the truth is all modalities have value at different times in our life and the healing container has to be big enough to include it all. For this reason, I’m currently pursuing ongoing training in Depth Psychology from a primarily Jungain perspective. For major issues, we don’t solve them, we grow larger than them. And there is evidence to suggest a depth oriented approach helps us do that. Where many therapists focus on learning skills or tools to reduce symptoms, I take the long view for longer lasting change. Not just feeling better now (though that certainly does happen), but therapy that “…sets in motion psychological processes that lead to ongoing change, even after therapy has ended.” My goal is to help you be the expert in and leader of yourself, living your own life connected and in relationship to our global community.
Services and Offerings
Individual Sessions – Counseling, Coaching, Healing in the form that is right for you.
Relationship/Couples – Learning valuable skills for managing conflict, increasing love and connection
Groups – Group therapy creates healthy community and offers many more reflections and insight than just one therapist can provide.
Somatic Psychotherapy – learning to listen to the wisdom of your body and how it is connected to mental and emotional states
Trauma / EMDR – When we face traumatic events, sometimes we need more direct focus on the events and impact of those events that prevent us from living whole healthy lives
Nature and Wilderness Work – Nature has been proven to reduce stress, learning to be relational with the natural world can also bring access to great wisdom
Men’s Work – To focus more on the experience of masculinity (of all genders) and/or living in male body
Psychedelic/Spiritual/Retreat Integration – Many people are turning to intensive retreats or psychedelics for deep dives into healing. To keep from them being just a peak experience, integration and application to ordinary life has to happen.
Specialties
Personal growth – when you feel like you are capable of so much more, but you just don’t know what it is that is holding you back.
Depth Psychology – Beyond trying to just feel better with current stressors, we can dive in and look at how long-term life patterns help create this stress, how your personality was formed, and shifting these things to make big long lasting change
Dreamwork / Unconscious – the truth is our unconscious is far more vast and drives our life much more than our rational consciousness. Working with dreams, the body, art, movement, nature, and other modalities help us to develop a relationship with our unconscious
Men’s issues – I work with all genders, but love helping men
Sexuality – expression, desires, acceptance, pornography, performance, and all things related to sex
Relationships – every interaction with another human being involves some level of relationship. From friends, to neighbors, to lovers, we can study how you are in relationship to others, determine what you want, and how to get it.
Couples – improve your partnership by increasing your ability to communicate and understand each other and feel the love in your relationship again.
Transpersonal Exploration and Growth – There is something bigger than you, even if you are not religious or spiritual – your community, your family, your country, the planet or beyond. Looking externally into the greater systems of humanity, nature, or spiritual realms can help.
Self-Esteem – feeling like you are just not ______ enough. Fill in the blank.
Life Satisfaction/Happiness – This is your one life. Let’s enjoy it as much as possible.
Stress – Anxiety – Depression – are a normal part of life, but they can take control and get in the way of enjoying life.
Grief and Loss – Job, loved one, pet, dream, we all face many losses in our life.
I’ll use this page to share thoughts, wonderings, lessons, and explorations from my journeys as a student of life.
You can also listen to wisdom and stories provided by me and my guests on my podcast, My Life is the Medicine.
You can email me at chuck@innerlifeadventures.com or through my psychotherapy practice, Inner Life Adventures.
Blessings on your journey. I look forward to if/when our paths cross in time and space.