True Friend Therapy

My training is through the Leela School of Awakening with my teacher, Eli Jaxon-Bear. The foundation of the Leela School is to be a True Friend—to have a quiet mind, an open heart, and to not take anything personally—which allows for deep listening, and the capacity to enter rapport with the other. There is never any sense of trying to fix anything—although working with trauma, addictions, and persistent negative habit patterns may be a part of the process—but merely encouraging the other to acknowledge and meet everything that arises in their experience, then to turn their attention fully into the depth of themselves, towards their own silent, unmoving, radiant Self, and to confirm this to be their true nature beyond identification with the mind. Inquiry into the emotions often makes up a large part of my sessions, and more and more there is an emphasis on embodiment of the realisation of Truth. Meetings may include hypnotherapy, and I occasionally reference the Enneagram, but fundamentally each meeting is fresh and unknown, and in my experience, playful and full of joy.