One of the things I love most about counseling is that I get to openly care about my clients and their struggles. And this care is essential to the effectiveness of the therapy I provide.

Over the years of practicing Chinese medicine, I’ve moved more and more into the realm of psychotherapy practice, too. I often hear the question “why did you start doing counseling in addition to Chinese medicine?” Here are some of my thoughts on why I offer counseling work…

According to Ron Kurtz, the progenitor of Hakomi therapy, “To work nonviolently, we must drop notions about making clients change and, along with that, any tendency to take credit for their successes… that doesn’t mean we have to be passive; nonviolence is not inaction. We can work without using force or the ideas and methods of a paradigm of force.”