A Center For Counseling and Psychotherapy

Michael Mayer, Ph.D

Stuck? Transformation is Possible.

“Are your anxieties keeping you up at night? Looking for a way to cope with chronic pain or an illness? Do you want new strategies for dealing with stuck places in your life? With my 30 years of experience, I give you leading-edge methods to help you deal with a wide range of psychological issues. Self-healing tools from Eastern and Western traditions can reduce or eliminate medications and empower your inner healer to deal with your anxiety, depression, chronic pain, insomnia, hypertension, etc. I help you to tune in to your body so that you can experience new meanings and feelings. My approach is integrative; and I adapt my approach to your unique needs.

I also enjoy working with couples as seen in my book Trials of the Heart: Healing the Wounds of Intimacy. I am fair and non-judgmental.”

Potential Benefits:

• Enhance Coping Skills and Learn Stress Reduction Techniques
• Transform your Inner Critic into a Helpful Coac
• Learn Constructive Methods of Communicating Negative Feeling
• Learn Self-Healing Methods for Health Problem
• Eliminate Unneeded Medication
• Discover Tools for Pain Relie
• Learn methods from the ancient art of medical Qigong that simultaneously relax and energize
• Work through traum
• Learn to self-regulate your blood pressur
• Transform old patterns into new life stance

Treatments used:

Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy, developed by Dr Mayer over 30 years of private practice, integrates traditional forms of psychotherapy with leading edge bodymind healing methods from Western and Eastern traditions. This approach has received endorsements from top leaders in mind-body healthcare. Specifically selected treatments are mutually agreed upon and are adapted to each person's unique needs. Some of these methods may include:

Traditional forms of psychotherapy including psychodynamic, self-psychology, cognitive/behavioral, Jungian, Transpersonal.

Western Bodymind Healing Methods including guided imagery, hypnosis, relaxation methods.

Qigong is a many thousand year-old method of cultivating the energy of life through breath, movement, awareness touch, sound, and guided imagery. Recent research has demonstrated that Qigong has the ability to lower blood pressure, increase balance, and help with a wide variety of chronic diseases. The Wall Street Journal says it's the hottest trend in stress relief. Many people think Qigong is about graceful movements; but Qigong also has static practices that can be done in stillness. Many people think Qigong is about practices that relax; but Qigong is a unique time-tested practice that simultaneously relaxes and energizes. Dr Mayer pioneered the integration of Qigong with Western bodymind healing methods.

Energy Psychology is a leading edge psychological approach that adds self-touch, tapping, and other methods to increase effectiveness of treatment. Dr Mayer has a book on energy psychology scheduled to be released by North Atlantic/Random House in spring of 2009.

Focusing, developed by Dr Eugene Gendlin, is a method of inner accessing that helps you to identify the felt meaning of somatic symptoms in a way that an energetic shift often takes place as the way your body holds an issue let's go or changes. Dr Gendlin won a Most Distinguished Psychologist of the Year Award from the American Psychological Association. Dr Mayer was Dr Gendlin's East Bay Focusing training coordinator for 10 years.

Please visit my website at www.bodymindhealing.com, where you can see my private practice brochure and download articles (Chapters from my new book) with self-healing methods for anxiety, hypertension, insomnia, chronic pain, depression, etc.

Bio.

Michael Mayer, Ph.D., who has been in private practice in the Bay Area for 30 years, is a licensed psychologist and certified hypnotherapist specializing in self-healing methods for mental and physical health problems. He is author of twelve publications on body-mind healing. Dr. Mayer is a Member of the California State Psychological Association; and he co-founded and serves as a practitioner at The Health Medicine Center, a multidisciplinary integrative healthcare clinic.