Q: What is Nondual Therapy and how is it different from traditional psychotherapy?

Nondual Therapy offers a direct route to spiritual freedom coupled with the core of individual purpose – which is to facilitate the healing and transformation of afflictions we carry in the psyche.

Everyone experiences degrees of ‘spiritual’ awakening during their lives – whether or not this is recognized or socially affirmed. These existential moments of pure ‘seeing’, from outside the box of personality or individual story, are essential to our psychological survival. In these moments, our individual consciousness becomes detached from the habitual patterns of action and reaction, and the addiction to the personal story. It can feel as if we are visiting the ‘person’ we believe ourselves to be from another place entirely – from a deeper home. When a sense of self opens beyond personal identity or psychological patterns, there is always a healing opportunity. There is a kind of psychic reset, in which first we realize our existence beyond all forms, and secondly we gain insight into the range of possibilities and attitudes we can have in our daily lives. Between unbounded consciousness and the relaxation of being somebody with the challenge of human responsibility, are contractions of suffering. It is here that Nondual Therapy seeks to bring relief.

While traditional psychotherapy offers many benefits, through connection, shared awareness, new perspective and compassion, it will often ignore these existential moments, or even attempt to deny them as they can seem to disrupt behaviour within the agenda of conformity to collective norms. In our times, leading psychologists have even named the experience of awakened consciousness as ‘depersonalization syndrome’ – a mysterious psychological complex. This means that someone with an experience of spiritual awakening (that can often be caused by the breakdown of part of the personality) can find themselves in a psychiatrist’s office with added fear of insanity, shame and a heavy dose of desensitizing medication.

Nondual Therapy is coming from a vastly different world view. Rather than seeking the relief of suffering through re-identification with structures of personality, it aims deeper, directly towards that sense of self in which consciousness is free, unlimited, undivided and filled with potential. If this involves a temporary sense of alienation or strangeness in the body or environment, this is seen as part of the process, which will of itself lead to reintegration.

It was Jiddu Krishnamurti who said that: “It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” In Nondual Therapy we recognize that attempts to adjust to a collective illusion can paradoxically deepen the rift of disconnection, feeding fear and putting the psyche under ever-increasing degrees of stress.

In Nondual Therapy, we prioritize the healing power of consciousness, as a living source beyond the individual brain. Moreover, Nondual Therapy recognizes and affirms the experience of the healing qualities of consciousness. Qualities such as love, peace, innocence and freedom are not treated as conceptual by-products of successful social adjustment, but rather as healing resources of our True Nature that can help unravel entangled places in the psyche where we disconnect from life.