Caleb Lantz Pusey, LCMHC
Spiritual Integration
I count many of the deep conversations shared with others moving in outdoor spaces as some of the most transformational in my life. While there is a growing body of research suggesting a positive relationship between wellness and time spent in nature, there is an ancient understanding that the restoration of attention that visits us in wild spaces imparts a sense of being re-created into a larger, albeit sacred, whole.
Attending to this wisdom is one of the primary reasons that I am a spiritual and religious person. I am also a licensed counselor trained and certified in spiritually integrated psychotherapy (SIP). Understandably, you might be wondering what, exactly, SIP is and how it informs my work as a therapist with you. Broadly stated, whenever my clients want their spirituality, religious identity, or even their areligious strivings to be integrated into therapy, then I move toward this facet of their lives without imposing beliefs, values, practices, or disciplines from my own spiritual and religious location.
It is not uncommon for clients to be curious about my inner life. This is a fair curiosity, and even though my primary interest is you, I know that my background informs my way of being with you as a therapist. With that said, I find residence in the streams of contemplative ecology and inter-spiritual wisdom. The headwaters of my religious life have been the Christian contemplative tradition. I could write thousands of pages on what this means to me and have done so over the course of divinity studies paired with thirteen years of professional formation in the guild of pastoral psychotherapy and in the growing community of spirituality-integrated psychotherapists. -- Let’s help you write your chapter of growth and healing the next time your singular cadence calms the cacophony of mind while the flow of your breath and the balance on your bike opens outward into that ethereal quality of presence that visits each of us in moments of contemplative movement.