Individual Counseling and Meditation Guidance

Robert has been a spiritual guide, healer and therapist for more than forty years. He works with those who want to begin the inner journey with meditation or who seek to deepen their practice. His decades of working as a psychotherapist, and his experience with the treatment of trauma, allow him to help people who are encountering emotional blockages in their meditation to melt them away and move on. Robert meets each person as a respected, valued and unique individual. He relates to those who come to him as honored guests or spiritual friends.
When crossing unknown mountains it is helpful to engage and experienced guide. This guide has traversed these particular passes hundreds of times in many different kinds of weather and at different seasons. The guide knows what equipment to bring along, and what to leave behind. When the going gets tough, the guide is familiar with the obstacles and his/her presence saves much unnecessary toil and may make the difference between success and failure.
Similarly, it is invaluable to have an experienced guide to assist in beginning and deepening a meditation practice. There are many books that offer instruction and inspiration, but only a personal relationship with someone who is familiar with the path can provide the intimate guidance necessary.
In working with psychological issues, individual guidance helps a person practice meditation on a solid foundation. Without proper guidance the very personality patterns that one is hoping to influence often overwhelm a beginning meditator and failure ensues. As a skilled guide Robert can offer precise instruction and a variety of meditative techniques that avoid much unnecessary suffering. Instruction is individually tailored to the psychological and emotional strengths and weaknesses of the individual. Guided interactive meditation allows for accurate instruction as the practice deepens. Personalized support helps one to persist in establishing a regular meditation practice when the naturally arising obstacles of confusion, anxiety, pain, fear, anger, restlessness and doubt arise. Individual training includes the development of personal mindfulness strategies for making work, relationships, and daily life more conscious and fulfilling.
For spiritual seekers who are following the path of meditation, Robert can provide guidance and invaluable company. As meditation deepens, one’s most cherished illusions are highlighted as the impermanence of all things becomes apparent. With insight into impermanence, the fleeting and somewhat disappointing quality of all pleasures, relationships, attainments and successes comes starkly into focus. The very foundations and nature of the self are questioned. Awakening to the vast freedom of our universal nature entails a correspondingly vast letting go. Our time-bound separate self, ignorant of the relief of freedom goes through many challenging experiences. Along the way a spiritual friend is a great blessing.
Individual training may entail from one or two sessions to introduce a person to meditation, to meeting weekly for a month or two, or to consultation over a period of months or years.
For further information or to schedule an initial appointment, please contact Robert at 503-223-2214 or email [email protected].
When crossing unknown mountains it is helpful to engage and experienced guide. This guide has traversed these particular passes hundreds of times in many different kinds of weather and at different seasons. The guide knows what equipment to bring along, and what to leave behind. When the going gets tough, the guide is familiar with the obstacles and his/her presence saves much unnecessary toil and may make the difference between success and failure.
Similarly, it is invaluable to have an experienced guide to assist in beginning and deepening a meditation practice. There are many books that offer instruction and inspiration, but only a personal relationship with someone who is familiar with the path can provide the intimate guidance necessary.
In working with psychological issues, individual guidance helps a person practice meditation on a solid foundation. Without proper guidance the very personality patterns that one is hoping to influence often overwhelm a beginning meditator and failure ensues. As a skilled guide Robert can offer precise instruction and a variety of meditative techniques that avoid much unnecessary suffering. Instruction is individually tailored to the psychological and emotional strengths and weaknesses of the individual. Guided interactive meditation allows for accurate instruction as the practice deepens. Personalized support helps one to persist in establishing a regular meditation practice when the naturally arising obstacles of confusion, anxiety, pain, fear, anger, restlessness and doubt arise. Individual training includes the development of personal mindfulness strategies for making work, relationships, and daily life more conscious and fulfilling.
For spiritual seekers who are following the path of meditation, Robert can provide guidance and invaluable company. As meditation deepens, one’s most cherished illusions are highlighted as the impermanence of all things becomes apparent. With insight into impermanence, the fleeting and somewhat disappointing quality of all pleasures, relationships, attainments and successes comes starkly into focus. The very foundations and nature of the self are questioned. Awakening to the vast freedom of our universal nature entails a correspondingly vast letting go. Our time-bound separate self, ignorant of the relief of freedom goes through many challenging experiences. Along the way a spiritual friend is a great blessing.
Individual training may entail from one or two sessions to introduce a person to meditation, to meeting weekly for a month or two, or to consultation over a period of months or years.
For further information or to schedule an initial appointment, please contact Robert at 503-223-2214 or email [email protected].