My Approach to Therapy

 I am no-teacher no-healer no-doctor no-therapist. I am Paul.

I have no-philosophy. I make right action my philosophy.
I have no-script. I make right speech my script.
I have no-specialization. I make helping this person here-now my specialization.
I use no-labels. I make intuitive knowing my label.
I have no-status. I make beginner's mind my status. I have no-method. I make being here now my method.

If I am successful in practising unknowing, instead of diagnose-treat-cure, the model for my Heart-Centered practice becomes connect-interact-become.
This transcends the medical model's necessity for diagnosing or labelling either my client or myself. ...

"There is no reality and it wouldn't matter if there were. All that exists are various points of view. There are no rules. All you have to do is inherit the consequences of your choices. ...

"Healing is a natural consequence of wounding. When obstacles to growth are removed, people naturally grow beyond any fruitless impact of trauma. ...

"All healing is essentially the release from fear. ...

"I have the world's best education. I sit and listen every day to people speaking of the topic about which they are the world's foremost expert: themselves. Most of what I know about helping others I learned from listening to my clients. ...

"Experience convinces me that my job as a therapist is to hold a space so special, so safe, and so sacred that people can say things they don’t even dare say out loud to themselves (far less to others) in ordinary space. Extraordinary phenomena happen in extraordinary space: Healings, miracles, magic and the like. All effective psychotherapy modalities create similar extraordinary spaces. ...

"Good psychotherapy and unexplained successful interventions take place only in extraordinary and sacred spaces. These places store good energy; they help those who enter there to feel in harmony and to release the causes of suffering. Therapists invite clients to join them there in open relatedness. These spaces are not cures; rather, they create opportunities for healing. They help clients to find their right path, to change and grow; they touch the body, the soul, the mind and the spirit; they connect the therapist and the client. They connect to mother earth and to the universe; they help clients to develop trust, to understand they are not alone and can move forward on the right path together with the therapist; they give an active role to the healer and the client alike. Extraordinary spaces encourage exploration and release from fear. In extraordinary space, people can risk losing control, and may come to be at peace. Hidden resources, invisible and essential for healing are discovered through compassion, intuition and bonding. Healing is the key product of the elements found in extraordinary space."