Focusing

“Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness.”

~ Eugene Gendlin

Focusing is a gentle, embodied way of slowing down, pausing, and opening up to the deeper contours and meanings of your experience. It is a dialogic process of sensing and describing a nebulous something in your awareness. This may begin as a bodily sensation, an image, a metaphorical presence, or more.

Sitting with it for some moments, you allow it to make itself known. A deep longing may be asking for your careful tending. A complex situation may need quiet beholding before you are ready to engage with it.

In the presence of another, we can experience so much more than we might alone. It brings me joy to companion people as they discover intricate facets of their experience.

Here are some ways that Focusing can help:

Clarify fraught situations and decisions
Expand limiting stories
Bring spaciousness & integration to your sense of self
Re-engage your creative process
Reduce anxiety
Support physical healing
Deepen meaning amid life transitions
Shift stuck places to uncover your voice and drive

To learn more about Focusing, please visit the International Focusing Institute.

When barriers are acknowledged, they transform into messages about your present needs. As you let it unfold, what is fraught begins to loosen and rearrange, and soon, the next move becomes apparent.

Working with Inner "Parts"

I was certified as a Focusing Oriented Professional by the International Focusing Institute in 2021. I currently offer Focusing sessions in-person (in Northeast Ohio) and virtually, regardless of location, for $75 per hour and $100 for 90 minutes.

If you would like to explore the possibility of working together, please contact me to learn if Focusing may be right for you.