Transpersonal Counseling Services In Los Gatos And San Jose, CA Area
When you need family, marriage, or personal counseling, June Steiner, Ph.D., CHT, is a trusted Transpersonal Psychotherapist in San Jose, CA. During her 30 years of private practice, she has integrated powerful skills into her practice that provide healing and growth in body, mind, and spirit, assisting clients in finding peace, balance, and personal power in their lives.
June specializes in Transpersonal Psychology which focuses on healing body, mind, and spirit. All issues that affect the psyche are interconnected with all three parts of ourselves and need to be addressed as a whole. She is a trusted listener, interactive guide, and coach. She gives clear feedback and helpful exercises to ensure that positive changes in beliefs, behavior, emotions, and goals remain integrated and strong over time.
Blending the skills of counseling and hypnotherapy allows for deeper exploration of client’s issues and behavioral challenges and gives them a solid foundation for healing in the present and continuing personal growth in the future.
Transpersonal Counseling
The Transpersonal Psychology model uses Interactive Psychotherapy with Transpersonal modalities to integrate the spiritual, social, emotional, intellectual, physical, and creative being into one complete element. It also addresses these six components equally for treatment. The model strives to discover divinity through our humanity and is a by-product of a person’s growth and development. Transpersonal thereby enhances the study of mind-body relations, spirituality, consciousness, and human transformation. It sees each difficult character trait and attributes as a garment that shrouds our true essence and assists one in exploring deeper into who we really are.
Life is seen as sacred, and people are encouraged to move into compassion and understanding as they see they are a part of the whole and there is no separation between people. TP uses positive influences, rather than the diseased human psyche and our defenses, as a model for realizing human potential.
This technique encourages a person to see their inner capabilities and view themselves in the process of reaching that healthy state that has been achieved by well-respected and successful people in all walks of life.
Cognitive Therapy
Cognitive Therapy is based on exploring how clients feel and believe about life and themselves and how those feelings can produce stress, anxiety, or fear if they are negative. Through talk therapy, clients examine their thought processes and learn to identify distorted or irrational thinking. Through client’s use of exposure and desensitization in a deeply relaxed environment, they can change their thoughts and emotions to more positive ones. Often the client is asked to keep a journal to track their stress, thoughts, actions, dreams, anxiety and/or depression levels so that they can more easily identify their issues.
The very nature of depression often leaves a person hopeless about ever feeling better, yet the condition responds to a variety of psychotherapies. One of the most effective is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), and a recent American College of Physicians (ACP) evidence-based clinical practice guideline (Annals of Internal Medicine, Feb.9) recommends CBT both as a reasonable approach for initial treatment and as an alternative to antidepressants.
“CBT helps you learn how to recognize and modify negative thoughts and behaviors, and your psychological and physical responses to these,” says Dr. Neugroschl. “The underlying idea is that by examining the way you think about yourself and the world around you, you can restructure your thinking in positive ways,” Dr. Neugroschl explains. “This, in turn, will help you address specific situations more constructively.”
CBT techniques include cognitive reframing, which can help you manage negative thoughts by approaching events in a more neutral way. For example, if something happens that you don’t like, you might think, “This should not have happened, and I can’t handle it.” Reframing this into acceptance and realism (“this has happened, and now I’m going to deal with it”) is more constructive. CBT patients also learn breathing techniques to help them relax and focus and are often given role-playing assignments during the sessions and homework between appointments.
The use of BioFeedBack helps clients learn healthy breathing techniques, stress reduction skills, and the ability to prepare the body and mind for difficult situations without panic, loss of control, or fear. We use HeartMath programs to teach techniques that clients can use daily in their lives for the rest of their lives in relationships, places of employment, family interactions and social situations. The continued practice of these skills prepares one for a grounded and peaceful way of life. Visualizations are used to prepare the body and mind to make new, healthy belief system changes, to rid oneself of fear and phobias, to create new behaviors, to strengthen one’s self-love, self-respect, and self-trust. Visual journeys help us practice healthy choices, behaviors, and self-talk. June creates specific individual visualizations for each client during the sessions and sends them the recording to their phone, so they can listen as often as they like.
Stress Reduction/Meditation/Mindfulness
Stress, anxiety, grief, negative self-talk, and the feeling of powerlessness create most of the illness and paralysis in our lives and keep our environments scattered and unhealthy. When we learn how to identify and ground our energy, emotions, and fear with powerful tools such as breathing techniques, HeartMath, bio-feedback, meditation, EMDR, and EFT, we take charge of our lives and find solutions, becoming responsive to our issues rather than reactive. Quieting the mind and becoming aware of our inner environment and its influence on our daily lives assists us in finding the truths, purposes, and strengths to make the healthy, meaningful, and joyful changes necessary to heal. Meditation and mindfulness practices create inner peace and clear thinking.
Conflict Resolution/ Communication / Mediation
- Family Crisis
- Couples Therapy
- Custody/Couple mediation
- Communication skills/training
- Using conflict resolution to come to agreements and solutions
- Boundary issues and creating safe space for solving problems
Conflict Resolution Services
Effective Conflict Resolution requires you to hear what someone else wants and values while still holding to your own needs. Creating win/win situations keeps all relationships alive and strong. Carrying those skills into your family, relationships, schools, and groups is essential for building trust and respect. Family, friends, and work crises grow out of unclear feelings, poor communication skills, and a need to win over someone else. The inability to set and keep appropriate limits and boundaries makes it challenging to keep agreements with yourself and others.
All outer violence begins with inner anger: when an individual or group will not use fair and honest means to find solutions, they begin the journey to anger, frustration, and possibly danger to themselves and/or others.
June also mediates divorce and custody issues, creating healthy family structures for the children of divorced parents.
Listening And Communication Skills
Good listening and communication skills are the foundations of healthy relationships with yourself and with others. If you want to be heard, you need to know how to communicate without blame or judgment and with truth and clarity. Carrying those skills into your family life, relationships, work, school, and community groups is essential for building trust and respect.
Mediation Sessions
Resolving conflict with positive solutions and agreements where everyone comes out feeling heard and seen creates safety, trust, and a willingness to bring your issues forward. June has taught conflict resolution and has been a family crisis mediator for 20 yrs.
