Counseling
Jake Eagle
I’ve been fortunate in my life to have a few stunning mentors-men and women-brilliant people, usually older, who learned to live congruent and graceful lives. My practice is fashioned on what I learned from these people.
I work with a limited number of clients so that my life feels spacious. Instead of meeting with clients for fifty minutes once a week, we usually get together once a month. I put aside half a day for each client and we typically work 2-3 hours. This format creates a context for us to work at a deep level.
Working in this way allows you to accelerate your growth. That doesn’t mean the work is quick. Growing our selves, creating personal certainty and becoming comfortable in a world without certainty, finding our passions, learning to create and sustain intimacy, maturing…these things take time. But from my point of view, working at this level is a far more lucrative way to engage with your self than chasing and trying to eliminate symptoms.
Our relationship–yours and mine–becomes an example of healthy relating. I’ll never interrupt you and say, “time’s up.” I find that incongruous with my intention to witness you.
Yes, witness. This is a key aspect of Green Psychology. But witnessing is not the only thing I do. I’m an active therapist, directive at times-but without telling you about you. In Green Psychology we don’t tell people about them, we reveal who we are and allow others to find themselves. My passion is helping clients develop self-respect and personal worth (pride) that comes from relating to others in a responsible, non-reactive, and mature way.
