Russell V Jensen LMFT
I love people. I believe we are all connected. I believe everything is meant to be. I believe healing and relief happen when we come into contact with our experience. And many times, that takes the support of others. I believe in trusting my experience and in you trusting your experience. I believe we are in constant change, and through awareness we get to be healed by that process of change. I have over a decade of professional experience in the healing arts. I am firm in my belief that you deserve love. My main supports are my family, my band of soul-mates, the great outdoors, my breath, and the many peculiar energies that I experience within. I want my legacy to be about promoting love and compassion in individuals, families, communities, and systems. I provide Gestalt therapy with a focus on Relational Awareness Development. I believe my clients hold the key to their own healing. My job is to support them in discovering their inner wisdom with space, compassion, and curiosity. My abilities have been honed through my own personal journey of healing, ongoing critical examination of my self, and over a decade of clinical experience and education. I have experience working with a wide range of mental health diagnoses at all levels of acuity, as well as experience supporting people towards general personal and spiritual growth. Thanks for taking time to visit my site!
Gestalt therapy
My healing practice is deeply rooted in Gestalt theory, which is deeply rooted in ancient heart-centered wisdom rediscovered by philosophers, psychologists, and healers of the 20th and 21st century. Healing, as I have come to know it, happens when we enter the relationships in our lives with awareness. This includes our interpersonal relationships and our intrapersonal relationship. I support my clients in developing awareness of their experience and awareness of their relationship to their world. The wisdom that promotes healing comes from their new awarenesses of that experience. Love, curiosity, compassion, imagination, creativity are energies that I offer and encourage. Breath, body, ground are supports that I help strengthen. When we have enough support to enter into the experience we are having with awareness, healing occurs naturally.
The Enneagram
The enneagram, among many things, is a map for psycho-spiritual healing. It supports us in identifying the ways that we restrict ourselves from our essence. It also teaches us how we open up to our essence. It shows us how to recognize our personality, ego, fixations, and vices so that we may have the option to choose to move back into our essential self and re-member our wholeness. By exploring your enneagram type, you may recognize your greatest virtues, release your greatest vices, and restore your connection to the faith, hope, love that is your birthright. As I therapist, I can say that contemporary enneagram theory provides the most accurate description of the human experience that I’ve encountered so far. It is a fantastic way to come into a deeper knowing of yourself.