Transformational Counseling: Dr. Zeus’s transformational counseling equips you to create a better world for yourself and others. Dr. Zeus is not interested in “fixing” you to become functional for a dysfunctional world. By tapping into the “higher self,” the elevated capacities and potentials of the human spirit, transformational counseling draws forth qualities, talents, and aspirations you did not even know you possessed. Dr. Zeus facilitates a deeper philosophical, metaphysical, and spiritual conversation between this more mystical “inner” you and the skills and habits of the “outer” you, helping you to identify and join your background, training, and interests with a deeper purpose and passion.
Couples Coaching: Past approaches to couples counseling have over-rely on gender stereotypes and usually try to keep a relationship together at any cost. Dr. Zeus, by contrast, emphasizes “fit” and how each person in a relationship can support the best of the other person from the best of themselves. Dr. Zeus encourages couples to reveal hidden insecurities that may limit growth in a relationship, as well as agree to a mutual advocacy between them in order to accelerate positive transformation. By emphasizing both freedom and commitment, each person in a relationship can feel supported in pursuing deeper dreams and higher capabilities. This includes mutual discernment about whether a relationship is right for those involved. Courageous, creative, and compassionate care, therefore, become the focus, rather than clinging or control.
Performance Coaching: Dr. Zeus makes it his mission to engage learning from an authentic place in you, to successfully embrace authentic challenges and opportunities in (and beyond) the world. His desire to develop progressively more effective and responsive forms of learning has led him on an odyssey through nearly every sphere of the education arena from transforming non-conventional learners into high-performance students to teaching and researching motivation at universities to writing a book, Spirit Athlete, which deals with revolutionary “inner meets outer” methods of increasing athletic accomplishment. Dr. Zeus’s “trick” is teaching his clients to “learn how to learn” in a customized mode that best suits their personalities, hearts, and minds. By breaking learning out of an institutional mold, Dr. Zeus shows you how you can attain wisdom as an adaptive, creative, rigorous engagement with the world and other people.
Emotional and Spiritual Well Being: When the world goes through major transitions as it is now, people’s emotional and spiritual reserves can be taxed to the point of exhaustion. Whole frameworks of social interaction are experiencing upheaval, and individual meaning-making seems to shift from day to day. Instead of letting stress overwhelm you or chronic low-grade anxiety sap you of your vitality, Dr. Zeus helps you “lean into the point” of this challenging learning opportunity. Challenge invites all of us to reach deeper into your spiritual cores and abandon superficial commitments. With his background in developing “interpersonal self-esteem,” Dr. Zeus supports you in developing a deeper, conversational relationship with yourself and others, identifying and coming to embrace what you value most and helping you discard the non-essential. Whether this is simplifying your life, appreciating beauty, or finding serenity in an increasingly manic world demanding your time, money, and attention, or some other surprising source of wisdom and strength, Dr. Zeus will help you tap into new reservoirs of energy and value to fortify your well-being.
“Spiritually Confident” Masculinity and Femininity: Enough already with the so-called battle of the sexes! Masculinity and femininity can and do beneficially interact. Masculinity and femininity can be experienced as collaborative, complementary, and creative polarities to enhance the contribution and growth of men and women and boys and girls. Men can show up and step up and admiringly engage feminist women. A strong, confident woman can likewise challenge a man to new heights.
Dr. Zeus believes that assertiveness and receptiveness are exchangeable birthrights and not the property of one sex. Whether males or females are introverted and more comfortable plumbing the depths of one another or extroverted and thirsting for mutual adventure, the spice of difference between sexes brings a particularly powerful form of learning and empowerment. Dr. Zeus conducts workshops and individual sessions on how to descend into and share from your deep masculinity and femininity. With an open heart and without self-consciousness, males and females can enter into an energetic relationship of contrasting sexual polarities. From respect as well as playfulness, they can then offer the constructive fruits of this creative engagement to the world.
NOTE: Sliding fee scale available for those who demonstrate financial need. All are welcome.