Private Sessions

Private sessions are offered for couples and women who have already or are currently taking a class or workshop in Nonviolent Communication with me. (For others who offer private sessions and have training in mindfulness and Nonviolent Communication, see the bottom of this page).

COUPLES
You and your partner have learned and practiced compassionate communication (NVC) and mindfulness. You have noticed changes in your relationship and hold the intention to continue these practices.

You notice that there are particular places you get stuck and would like more support in applying your skills and mindfulness to these places.

My wife and I have been married for almost nine years and together for fifteen. Overall, our relationship is healthy and loving. We really care for each other. Still, there are times when we see things differently and those times were fairly tough to work through. NVC, as guided by LaShelle, has given us a whole new language to use with each other without the triggers that used to lock us into our individual positions. We now understand and have compassion for our own and each others’ jackal voices and thoughts. I personally have a whole new vocabulary of feelings I am becoming more and more capable of getting in touch with and expressing.

Working with LaShelle, guiding us and watching her guide others through tough issues has been incredibly helpful. She is so fluent and insightful – a wonderful model to learn from and emulate. Her warm and compassionate way of leading our group always creates the safety it takes to risk being vulnerable. As a result of LaShelle’s class our relationship has reached a new depth and intimacy and isn’t that what it’s all about?

Dan & Claudia Duggan, Beaverton, OR

In private work you can continue to integrate the skills you have and also gain more subtlety in applying them.

For both classes and private work, I primarily draw on the consciousness, framework and tools of NVC (http://www.cnvc.org/ ) and Mindful Experiential Approaches to Therapy.

I help you see subtle patterns of communicating and relating that can derail your relationship. I help you understand each other and use new tools to create more intimacy, collaboration, and trust in your relationship.

In a typical session I might ask you to begin a dialogue about something with which you are wanting clarity and connection. I would ask your permission to interrupt frequently so that I can keep you safe (no sense paying me to argue), keep us focused on one thing at a time, help you see when and how disconnect starts (which is often much earlier than you might think), and teach you a new way forward.

With a new understanding of yourselves and your relationship and new communication skills, you can begin to have relief and freedom from the conflicts that keep coming back.

GBLTQ Friendly

$510 for a package of six sessions

$95 for single sessions

A session is 60 minutes long

Wednesday: First appointment 10:00am, latest appointment at 7pm

Thursdays: First appointment 10:00am, latest appointment at 4pm

Fridays: First appointment 10:00am, latest appointment at 7pm

OFFICE LOCATION:
2304 East Burnside # 3
There is a parking lot on the east side of the building and the waiting room entry door is at the parking level. The entry door faces the parking lot.

WOMEN
Private sessions are available for women who are seeking support with relationship issues, communication skills, self-awareness & insight, self-empathy, and/or empowerment.

Working together our focus will be on your present moment experience, how you are creating that experience, and what you like or want to change. Sometimes we will engage mindfulness to help you know yourself more deeply and shift your experience.

Other times you may just need to be heard and have help naming your feelings and needs and formulating requests or actions to meet your needs. This would likely be in the context of navigating central relationships in your life.

We might also work in collaboration to bring confusing inner voices forward and learn to meet them with compassion and clarity.

Past events are met as they arise and are considered in the context of how they are affecting you now. Past events that are influencing the present are usually looking for one or more of the following:

A healing response (that is, some part of you is still waiting for the response that would have allowed healing and completion in the context of that past event).
A revealing and disidentification with the limiting core beliefs that were born from that past event.
A disentangling of what actually happened from what you made it mean at the time.
Clarity about how you can respond differently now.
Practice noticing how an old reactive pattern arises and how you can choose not to follow it.

If you are interested in private sessions, email me to set up a free 15 minute phone consultation or our first session.

GBLTQ Friendly

Sessions are $85 per hour.

A session is 60 minutes long

OFFICE SCHEDULE:

Wednesday: First appointment 10:00am, latest appointment at 7pm

Thursdays: First appointment 10:00am, latest appointment at 4pm

Fridays: First appointment 10:00am, latest appointment at 7pm

Skype sessions are also available.

OFFICE LOCATION:
2304 East Burnside # 3
There is a parking lot on the east side of the building and the waiting room entry door is at the parking level. The entry door faces the parking lot.

Counselors & Therapists with training in Mindfulness & NVC

Jeremy Manalis
503.349.2281

Sadie Scabarozi
503-206-2703

Mark Pechovnik
http://www.mountaingatetherapy.com
503-853-3532

Annie Popkin
503-715-1468

Fred Sly
fsly@pacific.net
503-953-0333
http://rosecitynvc.org/

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