Transpersonal Consultation Groups Forming

Online or in person (in Oakland CA) for clinicians wanting to use more transpersonal modalities and wondering how to best market them. 

Transpersonal Consultation GroupsSometimes therapists get a little nervous about how they will be seen professionally if they promote what are considered by some to be non-traditional therapy.(It took me a year before I listed therapeutic tarot on my website!)  At the same time, most in our profession generally agrees that therapists need to be authentic to create the container of the therapeutic relationship with clients (and which starts with our websites. This can create tension for those of us who are practicing lesser-used techniques, such as imaginal work and guided imagery, or dreamwork, or energy-based modalities.

Transpersonal Consuiltation GropsA professor of mine once said they liked to think of the word profession as “professing one’s essence.” Its root words mean “declaring publicly,” as in professing one’s skills. My skills are based in my essence, in who I am and how I believe healing happens in therapy, and in the work I’ve done clinically over the last 30 years, as well as from the training I got from some amazing teachers. And my essence, since I was a little kid, has been about myth and metaphor, imagery and dreams, the sacred and the wonder of beauty in the rhythms of nature, becoming a therapist was woven in to that, not the other way around. And those things have been healing tools for most of our human existence.

So let’s profess our essence, transpersonal therapists! I will be happy to help you.

Learn more about these groups here, and call me to see if we’d be a good match!

510-387-0341

The Great Mother Available to Us All

Vigil Candle. bokeh, CCOWe sat vigil with my mom for three days, my aunt and I, 24 years ago. It was an honor to be present through her dying process, to accompany her soul a little way out, but I didn’t want to come back. About 9 months later, my healer, Greg, said to me, “You went home with her; of course you didn’t want to come back. But you’ll be there again; be here, now, where you are. You will go home again; we all do.”

 

It feels as though all my life, I’ve been waiting to go home. It took me until my mid-twenties before I was actually grounded, here on the planet, although nature always seemed like home, even when I was young. But I lived in symbols and metaphor, dreams and stories. I still do. And when I ache for my mom, I can find that comfort in nature, and in the Great Mother.


Expand Your Vision. photo by Lucy RhomeThe Great Mother is the primordial pattern of nurturance, nourishment, and embracing. It is a set of energies we all share as humans, a profound holding that we all yearn for, and that no mere human can actually provide. But it is available, if we open ourselves up to the possibility.

 

The Great Mother is there for us as Earth Mother, keeping us safe and steady with gravity, keeping the air in the atmosphere to give us breath, providing bounty that we may eat, and find pleasure in nourishment. She is there in the oceans and rivers, the lakes and the rain, sustaining life and emotion, buoying us up in warm waves of support, showing us our emotional depth in her currents and tides.

 

Inner Reflection. Photo by Willow SkripchenkoThe Great Mother is there in the night sky, embracing us in dark wonder and mystery, showing us a gentle reflection of power in the light in the moon, the inspiration of the constellations of stars, where we can reach beyond ourselves, and create.

She is there in our dreams, in the formation of messages from our Self, our Soul veiled in mystery, but accessible to those who will do the work.

She is there for us in beauty, in museums, in gardens, in a child’s laughter, in the flip of a cat’s tail, in the many hues of tree-green, of a sunset, of a sweet act between friends.

EARTH. NASA

The Great Mother is always available. Open your heart to your grief, to your joy, to an appreciation of our mere existence, of our experiencing silliness, and despair, laughter and tears. Treat each other kindly, and do not stand for injustice. Find comfort in the strength and power and endless compassion that resides in the Great Mother within yourself, within our humanity, and within our world. She is our home.

Renee Beck, LMFT provides Dreamwork and Transpersonal Therapy online in CA and at her Oakland office. Call her at 510-387-0341 to see how she can help.

Intuition in Therapy and Supervision

Fractal Fields and IntuitionHow is Intuition active in Depth Therapy and Supervision?

This intriguing question is discussed in Bonnie Bright’s interview with Dr. Joseph Cambray of the Pacifica Institute.

 

“It’s that kind of intuitive knowing from nature—not from a cognitive rational process—which, when they emerge in therapy and supervision, are art forms.” Read Bonnie’s article for more information about fractal fields, synchronicity and the therapeutic process!

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For Dreamwork & Transpersonal Therapy call Renee at

510-387-0341. Online in CA or at my Oakland office.

Clinical Consultation and Transpersonal Supervision also available!

 

Do You Deserve a Day of Renewal?

 So Much To Do!!   You work hard. Your schedule is packed. You spend time attending to the needs of those in your charge. You expend energy bringing pleasure to those you love. You work towards creating a just world, & you strive to enrich it with beauty. 

So much to do! Where do you get all that energy? What do you do when it runs low? You need–and deserve–time to recharge, renew, re-nourish your body, mind & spirit.

Wouldn’t it be great to get some bodywork? To re-spark your vital energy? To take a little extra time to re-focus & be more mindful? Or maybe to have someone help you with that Dream you had recently, or to join with a few people for healing.

Oh, I know, I know–maybe tomorrow, maybe when the budget isn’t so tight, maybe next week, or next month…

Day of RenewalHow about this Saturday, for an hour or two? Terra’s Temple in Berkeley is having one of their marvelous Days of Renewal, where various healers donate their time to offer short healings. For $24 ($9 for members) you can sample massage, energywork, intuitive readings, life coaching, Tarot, & more from 11am-6pm.

I’m offering mini-Dream Amplification sessions to help you give cultural & archetypal context to a symbol from one of your dreams. Bring a short, recent (or recurring) dream. Don’t have a dream? We can still work with your internal imagery through the Tarot!

Still can’t figure out how to do it just for yourself? Take a friend or loved on as a treat!!

Renee Beck, LMFT #21060, has been working with Dreams, Ritual, Energy & Symbolic Systems for over 40 years. She has a private practice in Oakland, CA doing Dreamwork, Transpersonal Therapy & Tarot, Clinical Consultation & Supervision & Transpersonal CEUs (BBS Approved Provider #5888). Her specialty is helping Alternative Healers work through thorny psychological issues that arise during their work with individual clients, teaching, leading groups or in their spiritual practice.

Call Renee for a free 15 minute phone interview to see how she can help you.

510-387-0341

CEUs in Shadow & Dreamwork Coming Soon!

  • Awakening Angel. nasa.govThe Adolescent Shadow
  • The Shadow Knows: Countertransference in Therapy
  • Elemental Symbolism in Dreamwork

 

Stay tuned for more info on Transpersonal & Depth classes & workshops starting Spring 2015!

LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs in CA: Courses from Renee Beck, LMFT meet the qualifications for CE credits for LMFTs, LCSWs and LEPs in CA as required by CA BBS. Provider #5888.

“It came to Me in a Dream…”

Have you ever gone to sleep with a thorny problem unsolved, only to wake up with a solution? Or to one morning wake up with a new song, poem or painting just waiting to be realized?

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Library of Congress printIf so, you’re not alone! The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde came to Robert Louis Stevenson in a dream, as did Misery to Stephen King. Paul McCartney woke up one morning with the tune for Yesterday

Scientific discoveries have been made within dreams. Kekule discovered the Ouroborus, 1478 drawing. Wikicommonsstructure of the carbon ring by dreaming of an Ouroborus–a snake biting its own tail. The structure of DNA came through in a dream. Otto Loewi had a dream of the flow of chemicals between nerve cells, leading to the discovery of neurotransmitters.

Madam C. J. Walker Preparations. Library of Congress printMadame C.J. Walker received the ingredients & instructions for mixing a hair remedy that led to the incredible success of her cosmetics manufacturing company. Elias Howe dreamt of the design for needles for the sewing machine.

Other exciting designs, inventions & art work have come through dreams, too.

Your most personally fulfilling discoveries may come through your own dreams, & through working with them.

Contact Renee Beck at 510-387-0341 to set up a Dreamwork session, or to work with imagery & metaphor in Transpersonal Therapy. San Francisco Bay Area!

 

Dream Symbol Mini-Consults

Learning from the Moon    This Saturday, I’ll be offering 20-minute Dreamwork Symbol Amplification sessions: While only you can discover the personalized meanings of your dreams, the symbols in your dreams have other associations that can help you gain a deeper understanding of the message your dreams hold for you. Bring in a short dream, & we will explore some of the cultural, metaphorical & archetypal meanings of its symbols.

Other 20-minute samplings are available — Reiki, Tarot, massage — at A Day of Renewal at Terra’s Temple in Berkeley. Come get renewed!