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Counseling

While Marie is currently retired and not taking any new individual clients, former clients and referrals from former clients are considered. Pro Bono counseling and talks with individuals and groups are an ongoing and important part of Marie’s long-term goals, and outreach to her is encouraged.

Marie’s process for individuals is one-on-one counseling, or counseling for a maximum of three individuals in any committed relationship. All sessions are private and confidential, and can be face-to-face, by telephone, Skype or other virtual face-to-face platforms.

Marie’s Keynote “Happiness” talk is offered free of charge to interested and appropriate groups and organizations in a live setting; virtual platforms are not optimal for this talk.

Marie listens for what drains, shifts, minimizes or threatens your personal power. She helps you understand the difference between your life (your inner, spiritual world) and your life situation (your outer, egoic world). Then, working together, you and she bring them into harmony with each other. These conversations explore:

  • Personal boundaries that are too soft or too rigid

  • Time management and priority recognition issues that value others’ needs over your own

  • Personal energy habits and choices that feel good at the time, but create longer term wounding

  • Trigger points for changing emotional reactions into considered responses

  • Imbalances of power in relationships

  • Involvement in toxic relationships, occupations and environments

  • Negative patterns in creating or allowing damaging personal entanglements

When you are out of harmony with who you are, your mind-body integrity is stressed and compromised – that’s why it feels awful. Stress increases cortisol; cortisol depresses your immune system, weakens you and keeps you vulnerable to illness. Stress exhausts you and clouds your judgment, subjecting you to manipulation and ill-treatment.

Specific tools and processes are offered during the course of sessions to establish or fortify boundaries, find language to express and quantify feelings, and create environments where personal power can’t be challenged.

Sessions may include:

  1. Particular resources found in public domain specific to the client’s needs.

  2. “Skid Zone Processing” – identifying areas of vulnerability and creating practices for resolution.

  3. Step-by-step assessment and process for understanding the Law of Attraction and how to make it work for you. You and Marie together address areas for dialogue or behavior changes to create or deepen your point of attraction or allowance, thereby deepening your personal power.

  4. Process to create affirmations to reinforce intentions.

  5. “Creating Trust” – a guided process developed by neuropsychologist, Rick Hanson

  6. “Spiritual Mission Statement” – a guided process, modified with permission from creator Stephen Payne

  7. Follow-up e-mails, texts and media conversations with Marie between sessions for review, prompts and ongoing practice.

  8. “Road-Side Assistance” – support by telephone, Skype, Googlemeet or other virtual face-to-face platforms between regularly scheduled sessions.