In counseling sessions, you learn to identify your personality, your strategies for dealing with stressful events and your underlying motivations. If you think of your personality as a software program, you get the chance to update what was once adapted to fit an older computer.

The process of understanding yourself and your life's situations in a nonjudgmental atmosphere brings compassion and allows for change in a natural way.

Skills are taught to manage life's suffering in more effective ways and to discover greater joy. Some of the skills include: defending against the inner critic, meditation and the building of the inner witness, body focusing, and increased capacity for empathy towards self and others.