Inner Life Adventures provides individual, couples, and group counseling services for a wide variety of personal growth, exploration, mental health, and career topics.
Appointments are offered in our office, local natural areas, or in the wilderness.
Therapy is not just about navel-gazing; our practice is structured to help you see yourself as fully as possible in group or individual sessions so that you can live life differently. What you learn in individual therapy can be expanded as you engage with others in a therapeutic group. New insights can be practiced in a safe, controlled setting, so that you are then empowered to live your life differently in the real world.
We guide you in integrating your whole being. Conscious and unconscious. Your brilliance and your shadow. Your ability to think effectively, feel genuinely, act appropriately, and rest in your wise being.
If you have never tried group therapy or an outdoor counseling session, we urge you to try something new. The benefits of therapy are greatly enhanced by incorporating human relationships with people who are different than us, exercise, movement, and nature into the process. By taking counseling out of an isolated one-on-one relationship and into the real world, where you live the other 167 hours a week, we encounter many more opportunities for experiential moments for transformation, growth, and lasting change.
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
- Sexuality / Sex Therapy – To increase physical intimacy, emotional intimacy, and being more satisfied in the bedroom
- 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
- Online Video / Telehealth Sessions – To reduce travel time and/or maintain safety in the pandemic
- 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.
- 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 – 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.
- Explore how everything in your life is related. “How you do anything is how you do everything.”
- Career – career is much larger than work, and work consumes more than 1/3 of the hours in a week (and another 1/3 is spent sleeping). If you are not enjoying your work, there is a good chance it is affecting other parts of your life. Some possible career topics include: career transitions (by choice or by circumstances outside of your control)
- Challenging work situations/work relationships
- Work related Stress
- Any concern you have that you would like to explore our approach of acceptance, non-violence, mindfulness, present moment, experiential, assisted self-study.