American number: 253 393 3251   International Thailand: +66 99 293 5807 robert.thecounselor@protonmail.com

Choose a Service

I offer Telephone or Online Counseling using Zoom, VSee or Jitsi

 

Individual Counseling/Coaching

I provide counseling or coaching  online internationally. We will have a 1st free session so that you can get a chance to see if you would feel safe working with me. I offer my clients a safe space to share whatever is burdening them. As I realize that some countries do not support privacy laws for citizens; You can be assured of an extremely high level of confidentiality. I do not use anything connected to google, I am only utilizing platforms that offer 256-bit advanced end to end encryption.  We will work collaboratively to create a treatment plan that will address what is happening to you.

Couples or Marriage Counseling

Relationships have changed dramatically over the past few decades. We are wanting deeper, more fulfilling relationships than we expected in the past. We are looking not just for pulling our resources together and raising children, but also for passion, deep connection and spiritual partnership. We want our partners to support us in being our best selves. So many of us fantasize about intimacy and passion and have no clue as to how to create it.  Couples counseling can provide a safe or neutral space to help couples work through hard issues with support. I use Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT). Research studies find that 70-75% of couples move from distress to recovery and approximately 90% show significant improvements through EFT.

Religious Trauma Counseling

Religious Trauma Syndrome is a condition that can be experienced by people who are struggling with leaving an authoritarian, dogmatic religion and coping with the damage of indoctrination. They may be going through the shattering of a personally meaningful faith and/or breaking away from a controlling community and lifestyle; or they may just be struggling to leave a community and lifestyle that is deeply embedded into their family and friendships.  It can be compared to  PTSD and is a form of attachment trauma. It can be incredibly painful and scary and requires support from someone who understands. Religious trauma is a specialization of mine, as I have years of experience living in closed religious communities, I can help you to work through this issue.

Mindfulness Workshops

Mindfulness is an objective state of self observation where observes attention itself without mentally evaluating what we are observing. In this state we allow awareness to remain present without the incessant chatter of the mind. I have taught meditation and mindfulness for the last 30 years and can present a clear and practical application of mindfulness for both personal work or for clinical teams. There are numerous therapies now that use a mindfulness based approach. Mindfulness workshops or workgroups can help us learn new ways to experience our awareness. Knowing consciousness separate from thoughts and feelings. Contact me for times and dates.

Individual Meditation Training

I spent 6 years as a monk and have classical meditation training from Hindu, Buddhist and Christian Monasteries.  I now offer Private Meditation Coaching and have also developed an incredible training to help guide people gradually from the basics of mindfulness and relaxation to profound states of awareness called Samadhi. Practical training devoid of cultural constructs based on my own 30 years of teaching classical forms of Buddhist, Sufi and Christian meditation practice. Part of Buddhas teaching on meditation called, Samatha -Vipassana; I teach how to enter the 8 levels of Samadhi (called jhana by Buddha) while living in your normal life. Using Samadhi to resolve psychological issues is still the most effective method available, as it accesses consciousness directly.

Dream Yoga Instruction

Dreams are the voice of the subconscious mind. Lucid dreaming refers to an inner state where you are physically asleep and dreaming but are fully conscious that you are dreaming within the dream state itself.  By learning how to remember dreams, and activate dream consciousness we can come to understand deeper parts of ourselves as well as learn to control and stop nightmares. We can help you stop nightmares without the use of medications through learning how to induce lucid dreaming.

 

Mindfulness Supervision & Consultation

Mindfulness is unlike other psychological methods. In order to know how to teach states of consciousness, one must practice them on a regular basis. One must experience those states of consciousness themselves. You can only take people as far as you yourself have gone. I have trained people in the use of mindfulness for over 30 years, running mindfulness work groups.

Enneagram Training

The Enneagram is an ancient and dynamic personality system that offers profound insights of nine distinct and fundamentally different patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Its power lies in the accuracy and depth of the personality descriptions and the transformational path it offers. It is also the only psychological teaching and typology that is taught and used worldwide. Contact me for workshop information for your business or personal work.

Somatic Psychotherapy

Somatic therapy facilitates resolution of trauma and PTSD responses. We can’t always think our way out of traumatic experiences. One of the biggest issues that we face as human beings is that we can feel trapped by our own physical and emotional states. These are the times that we feel panicky and anxious, without the ability to calm down. Other times we feel depressed and unmotivated and can’t seem to accomplish simple tasks. The brilliance of somatic interventions is the ability to directly intervene by developing new neural pathways and behaviors that provide alternative ways of responding to your environment without getting stuck in the habits of the past. 

 

Sessions are by appointment only. Early morning, daytime, afternoon and evening hours are available Monday-Saturday and depending upon your countries time zone. Sessions are 60-75 minutes in length. Sliding scale fees are available. Contact me with any questions you might have or to get started.

Specializations

  • Couples Counseling: cross cultural issues
  • Dissociative Identity Disorder: (also known as Multiple Personality Disorder) We have extensive knowledge and experience on how to work with this issue
  • Cross Cultural Issues: I provide support for people with intercultural adjustment difficulties related to the experience of living abroad. Depression related to cultural adjustment. Sensitive to Expat issues.
  • Third Culture Kids (TCK’s) are the children of expatriates who live in a foreign country for their work. Often growing up having to move and adapt to other cultures brings with it unique issues and depression.
  • Religious Trauma
  • Religious Issues: I have many years experience working with many of the worlds religions. with; 7th day Adventists; Mormons; Witnesses; Muslims- Shia and Sunni; Religious leaders- Pastors; Priests and nuns. Children of God, Brahmins, and Buddhists.
  • Process Addictions: Gambling, Video Games, Shopping, Hoarding
  • Panic Attacks
  • Anxiety Disorders: Phobias, excessive worry, feeling judged, general anxiety, obsessive thinking
  • Relationship Problems: Couples and Marriage counseling with direction- not just coming to fight in a session
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Nightmares and Flashbacks. We can help you to stop chronic nightmares without the use of psychiatric medications.
  • Military and Combat Related Trauma or Marriage Issues
  • Complex Trauma: which is the result of both childhood trauma and adult PTSD
  • Sexual Trauma and/or Addictions to Sex, Pornography or Relationships
  • Cheating, Real or Emotional affairs

Panic Attacks

I can help you put an end to Panic Attacks.


Depression and Hopelessness

 

Complex Trauma

which is the result of both childhood trauma and adult PTSD

Anxiety Disorders

Phobias, excessive worry, feeling judged, general anxiety, obsessive thinking

Relationship Problems

Couples and Marriage counseling with direction- not just coming to fight in a session

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Nightmares and Flashbacks. We can help you to stop chronic nightmares without the use of psychiatric medications.

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Also known as Multiple Personality Disorder. I have extensive knowledge and experience on how to work with this issue.

Cross Cultural Issues

I provide support for people with intercultural adjustment difficulties related to the experience of living abroad. Depression related to cultural adjustment. Sensitive to Expat issues.

Religious Trauma/Religious Issues

I specialize in work with; 7th day Adventists; Mormons; Witnesses; Muslims; Religious leaders- Pastors; Priests and nuns.

Process Addictions

Gambling, Video Games, Shopping, Hoarding

Third Culture Kids (TCK’s)

The children of expatriates who live in a foreign country for their work. Often growing up having to move and adapt to other cultures brings with it unique issues and depression.


Military and Combat Related Trauma or Marriage Issues

 


Sexual Trauma and/or Addictions to Sex, Pornography or Relationships

 

Cheating, Real or Emotional affairs

Nightmares and Flashbacks. We can help you to stop chronic nightmares without the use of psychiatric medications.