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Depth Psychotherapy


Blending depth psychotherapy with a transpersonal orientation, I support you in drawing upon the inherent wisdom and healing potential of your essential being – your true self – moving toward an integrated wholeness of body, mind, relationships, and life. My areas of focus include managing anxiety, depression, stress-related conditions, PTSD, chronic pain and medical conditions, life transition, authentic self expression, conscious relationship, sacred dimensions of intimacy, and transforming life and relational trauma. She has trained in the treatment of trauma through the mind-body approaches of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and EMDR through the EMDR Institute.

In those moments when you quiet your mind and the activity of your world, you have the opportunity to listen to the messages of your body, your relationships, and your life. Expressions of anxiety, fear, anger, depression, grief, dis-ease, or pain may be reflecting a need to listen more carefully.

Deep within, beyond how you usually are in your self and your world, is a wisdom, a knowing, a true guidance. Your essential state of being. When you listen to and act in harmony with your deep true self, you begin to experience a balance and flow of life energy. You live more fully and vitally, with greater compassion and authenticity. Life becomes more meaningful, relationships richer, creativity enhanced, and new directions revealed.

Imagine what it would be like to enter into your relationships, work, and life with a deeper sense of wholeness and aliveness. To embody more of your inherent potential. To heal through the wounds of your life and move beyond the obstacles that prevent you from freely being who you are.

Depth psychotherapy allows you to bring an expanded awareness of yourself and your life to issues of relationship, personal direction, and authentic self expression. You are guided through an inward searching process toward greater congruity between your inner truth and its outer expression. I draw upon many paths to help you access a deep level of feeling and meaning, and authentic self expression. Together we work with the deeper origins of what presents itself on the surface of your life - family of origin conditioning, patterns through life and relationships, as well as acute, chronic, and relational trauma. We explore together what the psyche reveals through dreams, images, movement, and felt experience in the moment. I align with your inner guiding truth, and work with what is in the way of you fully living and manifesting that truth.

Couples develop skills to become more present and aware in their relationship, learning to listen to each other’s truth while gaining greater clarity and expression of their own. Drawing upon ancient practices and modern relationship psychology, skills are cultivated in such areas as creating intentional and sacred space; the art of conscious communication; transforming anger and past wounds; cultivating the sacred art of touch; awakening pleasure, aliveness, and fun; and, sacred dimensions of intimacy, sensuality, and sexuality. Conscious relationship is a way of interacting and communicating that allows greater understanding, compassion, intimacy, joy, and love to emerge.

Sessions are available by appointment.
Complementary initial consultation.
Contact Marilynne at (415) 492-1042 to discuss your interests and questions.

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Marilynne Chöphel, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Please call (415) 492-1042 or email marilynne@dharmaspirit.com.