"We want healing from illness, but it is through illness that we grow and are healed of our complacency. We're afraid of loss and yet it's through what we lose that we're able to find what nothing can take away from us. We run from sadness and depression, butif we really face our sadness, we find that it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing; and if we face it a little longer we find that it teaches us the way to attain what we long for."
Peter Kingsley
About Me
My work as a psychotherapist and life coach is grounded in a spiritual and career path that
has been diverse and challenging. My first love out of High School was theater and I studied
method acting with Joshua Shelley at the Variety Arts Studio in New York for almost six years.
After that I did some traveling and lived in Munich, Germany for a year where I rediscovered
and fell in love with the country of my birth. When I returned to the States it was time to get
a formal education and I'm sure I was the happiest student the world has ever seen. I
majored in Philosophy and Comparitive Religion and then continued with graduate studies in
Counseling Psychology. A unifying theme for all of my studies and work experience has always
been a search for the authentic self. Method acting class provided one of my earliest experiences
of mindfulness and my interest in Eastern and Christian mystical experience carried over into
my training as a psychotherapist. I am trained in the principles and practice of Psychosynthesis,
Integrative Breathwork, Compassionate Listening and mindfulness-based psychotherapy.
After completing my Doctorate in Counseling Psychology at the University of Massachusetts
in Amherst, I taught Child Development and Developmental Psychology as adjunct faculty at
U-Mass and Springfield College; worked as a mental health clinician in community mental health
settings and private practice, and have served as a Court Investigator, educational consultant
and Guardian ad Litem for many years at the Juvenile Courts. I am a founding member of One
by One, Inc, an organization dedicated to transforming the legacies of conflict, war and genocide
through dialogue. I combine EMDR and the principles of mindfulness and compassionate
listening in my work with individuals and families recovering from the psychological trauma of
war and genocide. I have facilitated workshops on meditation and mindfulness psychotherapy
and presented numerous lectures at schools, synagogues and churches, here and in Germany
on the psychological consequences of war on future generations. My doctoral dissertation is
a phenomenological study of the psychological effects of the Holocaust and World War II on
children of survivors of the Holocaust and descendants of The Third Reich. In May 2006, I
completed a Graduate Certificate in the Psycho-Social Foundations of Peacebuilding at the School
for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont.
All of my work, whether with the individual or the larger community, has been about healing the
wounds of separation; of bringing together the parts that have been scattered and separated.
This is the meaning of healing and of peacebuilding, within ourselves and our world...
Peter Kingsley
About Me
My work as a psychotherapist and life coach is grounded in a spiritual and career path that
has been diverse and challenging. My first love out of High School was theater and I studied
method acting with Joshua Shelley at the Variety Arts Studio in New York for almost six years.
After that I did some traveling and lived in Munich, Germany for a year where I rediscovered
and fell in love with the country of my birth. When I returned to the States it was time to get
a formal education and I'm sure I was the happiest student the world has ever seen. I
majored in Philosophy and Comparitive Religion and then continued with graduate studies in
Counseling Psychology. A unifying theme for all of my studies and work experience has always
been a search for the authentic self. Method acting class provided one of my earliest experiences
of mindfulness and my interest in Eastern and Christian mystical experience carried over into
my training as a psychotherapist. I am trained in the principles and practice of Psychosynthesis,
Integrative Breathwork, Compassionate Listening and mindfulness-based psychotherapy.
After completing my Doctorate in Counseling Psychology at the University of Massachusetts
in Amherst, I taught Child Development and Developmental Psychology as adjunct faculty at
U-Mass and Springfield College; worked as a mental health clinician in community mental health
settings and private practice, and have served as a Court Investigator, educational consultant
and Guardian ad Litem for many years at the Juvenile Courts. I am a founding member of One
by One, Inc, an organization dedicated to transforming the legacies of conflict, war and genocide
through dialogue. I combine EMDR and the principles of mindfulness and compassionate
listening in my work with individuals and families recovering from the psychological trauma of
war and genocide. I have facilitated workshops on meditation and mindfulness psychotherapy
and presented numerous lectures at schools, synagogues and churches, here and in Germany
on the psychological consequences of war on future generations. My doctoral dissertation is
a phenomenological study of the psychological effects of the Holocaust and World War II on
children of survivors of the Holocaust and descendants of The Third Reich. In May 2006, I
completed a Graduate Certificate in the Psycho-Social Foundations of Peacebuilding at the School
for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont.
All of my work, whether with the individual or the larger community, has been about healing the
wounds of separation; of bringing together the parts that have been scattered and separated.
This is the meaning of healing and of peacebuilding, within ourselves and our world...