Buddhist Therapist: an alternative Counseling & Therapy

Buddhist-based Counseling/Therapy ~ Try a non-traditional alternative

The Spiritual Adulthood Therapy & Counseling Project

A Buddhist-based, more alternative Asian approach to relating with your "self"

"What is accepted by the majority of people does not mean it is real " ~ The Buddha 500 BC

Private insightful individual one-on-one therapy and mindfulness life coaching and relationship counseling.

for marriages, couples, all kinds of partnerings, workplace & friendships:

Emotional & communication breakdowns: "reaching out to reach deep in"

"The lotus has its roots in the dank dark mud,
Grows up through the cloudy deep water,
And finally rises to the surface.
It blooms into perfect harmony and purity in the sunlight.
It is like the mind unfolding into perfect joy and wisdom..." ~ The Lotus Sutra

Please go now to our counseling blog site; the best info is there! You will find many more of your FAQs responded there. It's really an interesting site - take your time to graze around in it.

Hopefully, you'll certainly know a lot more about what you need when you've done some reading at the blog.

The Spiritual Adulthood Therapy & Counseling Project

Santa Monica • CA 90405 • near Santa Monica College

Email & phone: See service window.

Best phone times to contact us: Noon to 6pm, Mon-Fri.

Initial phone contact is always best and most immediate.

Thanks,

Akasa Levi, DhMA ( D.Min.) Counseling Supervisor

"Take the first step in faith.
You don't have to see
the whole staircase –
just take the first step." ~ Martin Luther King

At Spiritual Adulthood, we apply the Buddhist psycho spiritual approach to the mind.

" The journey itself Is the destination! "

We offer a uniquely combined-counseling: An innovative, wholistic, ’spiritual variation’ of the mind-therapies, based in practical, quite highly scientific Buddhist wisdom combined with a gentle, accepting, gradual compassionate view towards all beings.

"Buddhist mindfulness-based guidance", with it's long humanitarian history, is a well-respected
ancient Asian, non-religious, more spiritual option to the regular standard-model of Western clinical therapies. Buddhism is not 'religious' ~ it is Asian-psychology based.

You certainly can be a sincere, deeply 'spiritual' person without being 'religious'! ~ without having any higher 'authorities'! and that helps to truly open the heart and mind to trust and sensibility.

This is NOT a licensed psychotherapy!
Please visit our blog for details & disclaimer.

We assist in healing the mind in the midst of these very edgy, scary, confusing, disappointing, over-driven, tense, survival-stressed, anxious uncertain times.

"Buddhist inner work"

"Therapy" is not found in even the best of books or CDs, or on the Net. It's a 'Live' Interactive Relating-Process - it always has been. Interactively: that's how the 'problems' started. Well, that's how they have to resolve! Therapy: two people sit down and emphatically 'work' on one of them. It's a living, live 'dynamic' - face to face. This time around, it's a co-operative 'dyad' of two people who care, in on this.
Therapy counseling is a 'relationship' in it's truest form, and that's always disturbingly 'risky' for the wounded spirit to change.

"The greatest risk is not taking one"

Spiritual Adulthood is offering a much more 'radical' form of Counseling – more geared to people in the whole spectrum of contemporary creative arts and the best of 'new thought-minded' sensibilities. Maybe more green or liberal or 'cultural creative'. Maybe just you.

The "Spiritual Adulthood" exploration encourages and supports a very eclectic “inquiry into self” practice, combining the cool, calm 'observation' approach of traditional, quiet mindfulness meditation with effective 'crazy wisdom' irrationality of 'Zen-mind realizations' that can cognitively short-circuit the common, but so obsessive self-involved, self-absorbed and self-identified ego mind.

" One easily-made, very common mistake is to think that 'your reality’ is THE reality. You must always be prepared to bravely leave your reality for a greater one." ~ Meeraji

We encourage highly inquisitive, progressive-minded people, with a natural, deep love of learning who relish the abstract, and even the absurd and have a genuine taste for the indefinable 'existential' stuff.

~ and Buddhist psychology is playful, too...

"...ever noticed that it's always now " ~ Alan Watts

he suggests you repeatedly keep noticing this many times a day...

Usually, the people who do eventually come to us are more explorative curious, do have a more active intellect and are innately, intensely inquisitive people by their nature; not 'ordinary Americans'. The 'Inner-Search', 'The Ouest' and 'The Mystery' - 'Understanding' of it all. They are people who relish the 'safari' of it – the 'search', the 'inquiry', the brave 'quest' of it - hurting or not - rather than 'popular' ideas and packaged prescriptions just 'served-up' ready to eat. No quick-fix.

'Enlightened Freedom' is 'experiential' - just not a 'home-deliverable 'product'. For each of us - all growth is a life-long psychological pilgrimage, experienced through a compassionate Spiritual Heart that includes live, full, rich relationship experiences with all other living beings.

Question: " Grandfather - What is Destiny? " “ Destiny is every step we’re taking and going through right now to get there ”


"So, you really must consciously choose and make the choice of good spirits to re-choose again and again to openly 'talk truth' with someone and keep it up... keep it up to openly keep talking with someone. To be open to 'trust' in gradually letting it all arise and unfold - messy or tidy, depressed or distressed. We all have these feelings. It's nothing new." ~ Grandfather Bearheart, contemporary Creek Elder

"Eighty percent of success is just showing up" ~ Woody Allen


Go ahead and get into some quality counseling/therapy – you really being heard here or somewhere that they will really take a deep caring to listen to you and really, really hear you and that’s a very courageous move on your part – to move yourself into a 'counseling setting'. It just may be the right place for you to start.

Be very welcome to inquire more about us as you search out where to do this inner-work.

Please read some more on this site.

Buddhist-based Wisdom offers compassionate, effective 'alternative approaches' to relating with your 'self' and all other living beings.

Awakening the "compassionate insight" that is naturally deep within you and within mostly everyone.

A liberal-minded 'therapy' for intelligent, sensitive, intellectual and gifted, creative people who are often odd, often wonderfully off-beat, yet now are very discomforted unhappy people...

We offer an empathic, warm Asian-style of 'alternative' treatment of 'mind wellbeing' that just may be a more natural, truly effective, non-traditional approach - offering another possibility as a workable therapy approach for you.

"One easily-made, very common mistake is to think that 'your' reality is THE Reality. You must always be prepared to bravely leave your reality for a greater one." ~ Meeraji

"The privilege of a lifetime is being truly who you are." ~ Joseph Campbell

Phone us and let’s really take a few minutes together to talk on the phone – and find out a bit more about what's going on within you - no obligations! It's a free phone consultation!

Please go to our blog site and read a bit...

There's a bundle of appointment details there and some sensible, solid good recommendations
on how to even approach the "idea" of beginning some serious counseling or therapy, but there are no promises, no guarantees – each individual situation is different and certainly, effectiveness may vary, yet it may be worth giving it a try.

“And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom” ~ Anais Nin

Buddhist therapy: It’s been done very effectively for 2,557 years.

” As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world … As in being able to remake ourselves. Become the changes you want to see in the world ” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

This can be done... give 'it' and 'you' a chance!

If you know someone else in your life who just may also benefit by our offerings, be very welcome to
put them in phone touch with us. Free phone consultation, but please ask them to visit our blog-site first.

We also offer...

The Laughing Buddha Sangha Buddhist Meditation classes and retreats
• visit our "Buddha-blog" meditation site

The Zen Men group... good men becoming even better men!

• Men's inner growth groups explore a man's deeper core issues

"Every guy could use being in a men's group at some time in his life"

Men learning to trust & support each other in making important life changes.

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