Jim Matto-Shepard

At our core, each of us has an intrinsic aspect of ourselves that is devoted to transformation and development: a desire to find our place, manifest our capacities, and live freely. To consciously access this “inner healer” and align our efforts, we must integrate traumatic memories, bring awareness to unconscious safety strategies and develop practices that support conscious living. This requires a safe relationship, practices that allow the unconscious aspects of our personality into awareness, and strategies for working with them as they show up. Together we can create a safe container to help clarify your heart’s longing, identify unconscious complexes that are blocking your fulfillment and employ practices to create more enduring awareness. I have studied and thus employ practices from Somatic and relational psychology, ritual and meditation; how that unfolds is based on deep listening and an assessment of what is right in any given moment.