My approach is to be genuine, intuitively receptive, and collaborative. My energy in the room is soulful, steady, and nurturing. I put myself at my clients level so that there is a sense of safety, acceptance, and teamwork rather than hierarchy. I find that hopefulness and healing tend to happen from the very first counseling session. As a therapist, my first priority is to make sure that my client’s specific needs are being met, whether that be spiritual growth, relationship healing and growth, self-healing and growth, or all of these things. After all, they do tend to overlap.

One of my strengths is my ability to help my clients move beyond the patterns of being stuck in or triggered by past emotional wounds by teaching them valuable self healing techniques and relational skills. I am a unique and seasoned blend of depth therapist, transpersonal therapist, and couples therapist a blend of mindfulness and somatic tools, energy healing, Imago inspired relationship tools, transformative guided visualizations, shamanic, and experiential techniques such as breath work, grounding, chakra clearing, soul retrieval, body check ins, inner child healing, Emotional Freedom Technique (I’m a Certified Level 2 Energy Healing Practitioner with ACEP), Conscious love (inspired by John Welwood), Conscious Parenting, (inspired by Shefali Tsbary), and Soul work/Shadow work, inspired by Carl Jung, Thomas Moore, and David Richo, and Sandra Ingerman.

In my own personal life I have benefited tremendously from learning to walk a path of mindfulness, conscious romantic love, conscious parenting, and shadow work. When I know it will help, my clients will hear one of my own real life examples of how I have worked through my old stories and fears and how I have healed and transformed. We all need a little inspiration sometimes, especially when we are in a place of despair. These are the gems that I can help you discover. I find that woven together, these practices allow us to walk a path led by divine love and light. Here, we learn how to enlist our Higher Self to help us embrace, integrate, and heal our shadow and bear witness as our hidden strengths and soul gifts begin to blossom.

We learn to face our fears by embracing our pain. Then, we track the deeper story behind the pain and the mood of un-love that we keep circling back to. Realizing from our new, more empowered pe that this story that we are “unlovable” or “not good enough” or “not beautiful enough” is not true, we can then rewrite these self-limiting, pain provoking stories.

We can get creative and passionate in this self-healing as we learn the life enhancing benefits of weaving self-care and self-nurturing into our lives. Life becomes more meaningful as soul expressive activities such as dancing, gardening, painting, playing a musical instrument, singing, writing, become part of our weekly or daily self care practices. Morning and/or evening rituals of meditation and journaling, breath-work, or prayer can become the catalyst for healing core wounds and breaking out of negative thought patterns such as self doubt, low self esteem, or victim mentality.

What I am describing is a path of continuous awakening and growth, one that our own soul is longing for us to embrace. And I am here to coach you on this path, to empower you to connect to your own Higher Self, that wise inner voice that is always with you, like a guardian angel, guiding you to be in service for the better good of all.

In love and light,

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