What is my approach?

My approach is fundamentally guided by a simple realization: Fulfilment is inherent to Awareness. This Awareness has been referred to by many different names across various spiritual and contemplative traditions: Emptiness, Pure Being, the Self, Buddha-Nature. But no matter the name, this Awareness I am pointing to is simply the Aware Being which you already are.

Ultimately the purpose of our meetings is only to recognize this freedom of Awareness, familiarize with it and allow it integrate it into our conventional life. There is no pre-defined path of coming to this recognition. Rather, I place emphasis on meeting you right where you are. You have the total freedom to bring up any topic and question that seems relevant to you. How our meetings unfold is therefore dynamic. Sometimes we talk, sometimes we rest in effortless completeness and sometimes we explore the mind’s limiting beliefs and fixations which seem to hide this Awareness.

The general atmosphere in our meetings is a safe, light and often humorous one. I will not push you in any direction that is psychologically destabilizing for you. Respecting your own integrity, wisdom and well-being is essential to me.

What is my background?

I’m a psychologist, formerly working in the fields of clinical psychology and neuropsychology and currently working as a freelancer in psychological assessment. My background and experience in psychology and psychotherapy continue to inform my overall approach.

I’ve been fascinated by meditation, contemplative practices, the nature of being all throughout my life. I was raised as a Christian, but left the religion as a teenager. Soon after I started a regular meditation practice, mainly in a Buddhist context. I had the good fortune of being introduced to the possibility of recognizing non-dual awareness early on in my practice. The possibility of directly realizing this unconditional fulfilment of Being left a profound impact on me. Ever since then the various traditions and approaches across the world which explore the realization of non-duality have been of special interest to me. The traditions of Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Chan, Advaita Vedanta and Christian Mysticism specifically have been strong influences over the years. However, my own style of sharing does not follow a particular tradition and I don’t strictly adhere to the methods and terminology of any system. Rather, I employ a dynamic and pragmatic style of sharing which arises directly out of the non-dual realization and naturally incoporates the methods and insights of various traditional and contemporary approaches.