Inner Empathy

Inner Empathy Spiritual Counseling

What Is Inner Empathy?

Inner Empathy work is an experiential form of inquiry, an open-ended engagement with our inner world. These practices support us to attuned to what emerges in each moment, and at the same time, offer a functional structure, or inner model, to facilitate clarity and depth. Inner Empathy combines the non-dual awareness practices of the east with experiential psychology of the west (nonviolent communication, parts work, constructivist psychology) to facilitate effortless emergence of wholeness.

What to Expect From an Inner Empathy Inquiry Session:

The session is a facilitated open inner inquiry process. After a brief discussion to determine the focus of the inquiry, you will be coached by the facilitator with various prompts which are attempting to inspire awareness of or deepen your connection with whatever is spontaneously emerging in the session.

Because our consciousness presents itself as a flowing stream, we tease apart aspects of this stream and call them parts. We do this to facilitate connection with the part, not to diagnose or label. A part can present itself in a variety of ways; most often as thoughts, feelings, or somatic sensations.

Typically, you might be asked to determine what a part of you was feeling, or what this part was wanting in a particular context. Sometimes our parts have a lot of judgments and we might allow the judgments to heard about someone or something. Or- maybe a lot of "figuring out" thinking is happening with a part and you are prompted to listen to this thinking.

Maybe a part will enjoy being heard, maybe it will be terrified to speak up or maybe another part doesn't want it to speak. Either way, you will experience that any response to these prompts is okay. There is no right or wrong way to do a session! A space will be created where there is nothing you have to know, understand or figure out. There is nothing you have to change or fix. We can compassionately connect to whatever arises in your experience. This is powerful experiential work and is different than "talk therapy."

Some people find this Inner Empathy approach uncomfortable because they are accustomed to a lot of effort to overcome, eradicate or change something inside. They fear that not adopting these effortful strategies will be a waste of time. Let me assure you Inner Empathy is highly effective and works on deep levels. The Inquiry creates the quality of awareness and connection with aspects of ourselves that stimulate our self-adjusting mechanisms to kick-in so that effortless self-corrections occurs. And the best part is these effortless self-corrections don't require ongoing effort to maintain, they become permanent changes. If you would like to experience this different approach, please schedule a session below.

-Inner empathy sessions 1 hour for $95

-Inner empathy with energy healing $120 for 1.5 hours

-3 sessions for $250