The Institute is pleased to offer individual consultation sessions in the Portland, Oregon USA metropolitan area and elsewhere by appointment.

INDIVIDUAL SESSION CONSULTATION with Jane Peterson, Ph.D.

Is this you?

You think you know what you want, but seem to keep sabotaging yourself.

You want a relationship that lasts, but have about given up on finding love.

You have a career or business issue that you can’t figure out how to resolve.

You have a health issue and proper medical support, but know there is something deeper that keeps you from healing.

You have a difficult decision to make and can’t seem to move forward. 

You’d love to divorce your family, but even moving a way from them hasn’t stopped the pain.

You'd like to feel whole again.

THE NATURE OF PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
Your body and being has a natural desire for wholeness and health that gets derailed through difficult experiences. The part of you that knows this deeper truth often gets buried in your body and isn’t available to your conscious mind. Thus you struggle with the same patterns over and over without being able to get to the heart of the matter and move forward.

Einstein was right when he said, “The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” Systemic problems cannot be solved at the level of the individual. You are an intrinsically social being. Your very identities is created through your relationships, including your relationships with your family, career, workplace, country of origin, body, addictions, social class, ethic background, and so on. Where do you as an individual end and your family and social world begin?

The famous brief therapists, Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, made the insightful observation that "the problem state" doesn’t necessarily lead via a direct path to the "solution state" (it often just leads to more of the problem!) The medical model of diagnosis and treatment is not necessarily effective in resolving mental, emotional or spiritual issues. My work is solution focused and practical. If you are truly ready for something better, then I am ready to work with you to reach that goal.

I am able to hear what is beneath the issue you bring, to attune with the deeper movements in your life that are affecting you now. My ability to bring to the surface the dynamics of the real issues allows you to reach your desired solution more directly and rapidly. My emphasis is on you getting what you want and making those changes “stick” in your daily life.

SESSION DESCRIPTION
A session with me starts with your description of your issue and what you want. Once your desired outcome is clear, then I will work with you to uncover the deeper movements at work in your life, and to guide, challenge and support you in reaching your goal. Our emphasis is on making changes happen in your real day-to-day world. Since implementing the solutions in your daily life is where real satisfaction and success occurs, I will typically meets less frequently (typically every other week) for a longer time (usually one and a half hours). This allows for deeper more intensive work, while managing the costs of sessions and giving you time to explore and implement changes from the session in your life.

BACKGROUND
I draw on many different perspectives in my consulting practice, from Systemic Constellation Work, to Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Brief Therapy and Ericksonian hypnotherapy, from Shamanism to non-verbal communication and Coordinated Management of Meaning. I have been consulting with individuals since 1996. I have been doing Systemic Constellation Work since 1998.

In January, 2009, I completed my doctoral dissertation in Human and Organizational Systems through Fielding Graduate University. Fielding is a leader in the fields of social justice and positive social change development. I am an international trainer in both family and organizational Systemic Constellation Work, training by invitation on the faculty of the famed International Intensive currently held in Germany, and the biennial International Organizational Constellation Training Intensive, currently held in Mexico. Besides my work in the US, I have trained and/or led workshops in 12 countries. In addition to my doctorate, I am a certified Master Practitioner of NLP, a certified clinical hypnotherapist and member of the Oregon Hypnotherapy Association, a certified behavioral coach, and a member of the Family Firm Institute, the Organizational Development Network, the International Systemic Constellation Association, and the American Counseling Association. I adhere to the relevant code of ethics of those organizations.

COSTS
Initial session is 1.5 hours. Additional sessions may be either 1 hour or 1.5 hours depending on your needs. I prefer to work more intensively with you for fewer sessions and typically schedule sessions for on-going work biweekly, and sometimes one session may be all that's needed to get you back on track.

$120/hour for individual ($180 for 1.5 hour sessions)
$144/hour for couples ($192 for 1.5 hour sessions)
$165/hour for families ($220 for 1.5 hour sessions)

CANCELLATION AND LATE ARRIVAL POLICY.
If you must cancel a session, please call 24 hours prior to the scheduled session time to reschedule. Missed sessions will be charged at the full hourly rate for the scheduled time.Appointments will be held for you until 20 minutes after the scheduled time. After that, your session cannot be guaranteed. If you are unavoidably delayed or must reschedule a session, please phone 503-293-0338.

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