from Psychotherapy

to Connection and Flow

The cornerstones of our healing model:

*Healing implies a change in your relationship with yourself, not with a psychotherapist.

*Psychotherapy is not different from other types of learning. One needs a friendly environment to practice newly acquired skills. 

*An approach to healing that is instrumental in learning a particular style (language) of self-expression is sometimes more efficient than a more generic approach to healing.

Labs of Awareness is a positive psychology, non-crisis support center for individuals who prefer the adventure of self-observation over more traditional forms of psychotherapy or for those for whom a sense of well-being is less conditioned by mental health symptom management.

The center's goal is to help people reconnect with their sense of flow and creativity, which are always accessible, no matter what you do—or do not do. With us, you can continue to grieve and brainstorm as you would in more traditional forms of psychotherapy, but you can also explore new activities and build entirely new rituals and habits.

Although our services are designed for people who are not working through acute stages of trauma, the approach we take is trauma-sensitive and attuned to many different forms of past experiences. Knowing that flow is always at your fingertips can immediately alleviate many of life's troubles, especially those influenced by addiction and neglect.

How does it work in practice? 

1. The first session with each of our practitioners is free. If there is chemistry, you can continue seeing that same practitioner for regular 50-minute sessions.

2. You can schedule a short 15-minute session of Flow Therapy with that same practitioner by paying per session or subscribing monthly.

3. Once you become part of our community, you can use our occasional free non-crisis resolution services.

Read on to learn about the differences between our approach and more traditional forms of psychotherapy:

1. Non-crisis support caters to a person's sense of connection to themselves and the greater whole. Crisis support primarily and almost exclusively addresses flare-like symptomatology, often serving more as a medical intervention or crutch rather than a transformative process.

2. Non-crisis support is attuned to depression, anxiety, and grief but addresses these states in a non-direct way, without hyper-focusing on perceived causes and conditions typical of acute distress. Crisis support helps people in acute states of depression, anxiety, and grief.

3. Non-crisis support offers activities, tiny adventures, and rituals to enhance creativity, something you have always wanted to explore. Crisis support provides advice and direct guidance on breathwork, touch, thought patterns, and perception modes.

4. The outcome of non-crisis support is a flow state enriched by new, mindful connections. The result of crisis support is a calmer state of mind.

5. Non-crisis support helps you create and sustain new, helpful habits. Crisis support leaves the creation of new habits outside the scope of treatment.

6. The responder on the non-crisis support line is a trained psychotherapist with years of experience in conventional psychotherapy. In contrast, the responder on the crisis support line is an anonymous individual.

7. Non-crisis support may be logistically different from crisis support. In non-crisis support, there is no need for an entire 50-minute psychotherapy session. You can call us for as much time as you need, and often, just 10 minutes is enough to enter a state of flow and start feeling creativity brewing.

Examples of learning we support:

Meditation

Psychotherapy

Somatic awareness

Storytelling: Wake-dreaming a story

(Dreamwork per se does not bring you into a state of flow)

Movement and Dance

Improvisation (vocal, verbal, and movement)

Crafts and crafting

Mathematical and analytical thinking

Supervised interactions with animals

Creation of personal rituals for self-acceptance and transcendence

Memory integration

Guidance of workshops in the role of a teacher

and much more…

Dharma College
2222 Harold Way
Berkeley, CA 94704