I am passionate about being a soul healer, conscious love whisperer, and self empowerment coach for my clients as I guide them to deepen their connection with their Higher Selves and turn their pain, suffering, and painful relationship patterns into an opportunity for growth. I am continuously in awe of the beauty, newfound confidence, and growth that comes out of the struggle for my clients. Once we have identified the goals of therapy I intuitively know which tools and techniques to use, I facilitate the healing via mindfulness breath work/guided visualization, talk therapy, brief journaling exercises, and somatic energy healing tools. Simultaneously, I am helping my clients create self care and relationship care protocols to use at home.

I relish the moments of sitting with clients as they report back to me their progress, like how they meditated for 8 minutes that morning and read their intention that we created in session and then they were able to make a repair with their partner right away, rather than holding onto to the resentment and being shut down for three days. These kinds of shifts that I help my clients make are not temporary. They are life long. Because besides the healing that I facilitate in session, what I teach my clients is more about lifestyle enhancing, heart opening self care and relationship care protocols that add meaning to your life, feed your soul, nurture your relationships, and keep you on an ongoing trajectory of growth.

I believe that each and every one of us has an innate ability to cultivate the gardens of our souls and our relationships and restore harmony and balance to our lives in a way we may have never thought possible. Sometimes we just need a safe, unbiased, sacred space to really focus on what it is that our soul is trying to tell us. Then, with some skilled guidance and the acquisition of a few new insights and tools, we can free ourselves from what is often our own unconscious, self-imposed limitations.What a sense of self-empowerment it is to realize that you have the strength, ability, and inner light to lead you to your authentic power and your soul’s desires! Indeed, it is a very liberating, profound experience. I say this as someone who has spent nearly 20 years passionately counseling couples and individuals and bearing witness to this.

My approach is strength based and involves guiding my clients to the awareness that the difficulty they are experiencing can, for the most part, be replaced with growth. All they have to do is choose growth by forging more of a connection to their Higher Self or higher consciousness and allow me to guide them as needed in healing core wounds, releasing unforgiveness, overcoming addictions, and getting out of limiting stories and thought patterns, anxiety and depression patterns, and painful relationship patterns.

As a psychotherapist I have witnessed very intimately how the challenges and even the traumas in life are indeed an opportunity for growth. We just have to decide that we are ready to move on from the stagnancy, negativity or despair and into hopefulness and faith in our Higher Self having our back. It takes personal will and inner reflection.  Then we just put one foot in front of the other, and give it our best shot. And our Higher Self will have our back, in spite of what appears possible. So dream big. And be willing to collaborate with a part of you that literally has super powers. The inner creates the outer, and if you work with me you will learn how to work very effectively with the universal laws such as the law of attraction, because these are the laws from which your Higher Self operates.

If you are considering doing this work, but are having resistance, I invite you to contemplate this: Just as you wouldn’t turn a cheek to a loved one in need, you can’t turn a cheek to our own inner child, your own soul crying out for help, nudging you to actively strive for growth, joy, love, and meaning. That is the collective human spiritual purpose that each and every one of us are here to master. We are spirits having a human experience, and we deserve to come into the full evolution of this. It’s about coming into our authentic power, and the wisdom of our soul. This path of growth leads us to a life experience that has more meaning, more harmony, more bliss, more love, more connectedness to ourselves and others. You deserve this opportunity!

What to Expect When Working With Me

-I offer both daytime and evening appointments

-I offer both in person or Zoom sessions, depending on your preference. Both are highly effective when working with me.

-I welcome individuals and couples of all cultures, religious preferences, gender identifications, and sexual orientations.

-My main emphasis and experience is in both couples therapy and individual therapy for adults of all ages. I also work with teens and families.

Individual Therapy– My process with individuals is a modern day Jungian approach that incorporates guided visualization (mild hypnosis) and breath work, intention/goal setting, inner child healing, mindfulness techniques, and energy healing and clearing such as EFT/Tapping. In the process I help my clients forge a deeper connection with their Higher Self or higher consciousness and guide them as needed in healing core wounds, releasing unforgiveness, overcoming addictions, overcoming triggers, overcoming anxiety and depression, and getting out of limiting stories, thought patterns, and relationship patterns. For more information on individual sessions, feel free to call or text me at 707)483-8232, or you can email me at [email protected].

Couples Therapy– I have a very unique, heart centered, attachment based process with couples that I call Conscious Love. (For more information on Conscious Love see my blog article Conscious Romantic Love: A Catalyst for Awakening). My Conscious Love process incorporate some of the same theoretical foundations and techniques as my individual sessions, yet it is simultaneously very different in that there is a strong emphasize on various couples tools such as a communication techniques that I call the Nurturing Talk as well as other helpful techniques such as the Love Tank Request List. The techniques I use with couples are inspired by Imago Couples Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, the work of John Welwood, and the philosophy of Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh. For more information on couples sessions, feel free to call or text me at 707)483-8232, or you can email me at [email protected].

Some of the major aspects of my role as your therapist are: to help you identify your goals; to heal/resolve/make peace with any past wounds that are the root of your difficulties; to help you to align with your own innate strengths and abilities; to collaborate with you in the therapeutic process so that you feel empowered and supported on your path of healing and growth; and to provide you with some new insights and skills to aid you on this magnificent journey. I offer guided visualizations which can be recorded and used at home to help you connect with your Higher Self, or higher consciousness. I will be collaborating with this spiritual aspect of you in order to facilitate your healing, empowerment, and growth in our sessions.

In this process we are also creating protocols for self care and relationship care that can be easily woven into your daily lifestyle so that you have higher consciousness coping skills, and can achieve an increasingly better quality of life as you become more and more adept at using what you have learned. What many don’t understand about the journey of healing and transformation is that our soul grows in a spiral formation. This means that we will sometimes revisit painful triggers and patterns even after we have made substantial progress. But if we pay close attention, we will notice that we don’t stay triggered for as long, or experience as much pain over time. We come to realize that we get better and better over time, with practice. When we can come to understand how to incorporate mindfulness and awareness of our shadow work and our souls needs into our lifestyle, then we can come fully into our authentic power and live a more fulfilling, blissful, heart centered life.

Namaste,

Christine Dufond, MA
Marriage and Family Therapist #53645
(707)483-8232
[email protected]
www.mindfuljourneycounseling.com

*Please Note: mindfuljourneycounseling.com is just a domain name and does not represent the name of a business.