Jaye Moyer, LCSW, TEP
I am a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor, practicing in the Hudson Valley, (and online, via Zoom). I work with individuals, couples, and groups. I also provide training, consultation, and mentoring to mental health practitioners. I am also a facilitating teacher for “The Daily Sit” offered at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.
I’ve always been interested in creativity and the creative process. How do we grow and develop creativity? Creativity is about seeing something in a new way and responding in a new way. I look for ways to incorporate humor, spontaneity, playfulness and intuition into my work.
Compassion and kindness are essential qualities (personally and in my work). When we can embody these qualities more easily, we feel less distress, more stability and flexibility.
I have a committed meditation practice, and I continue a study of Theravadan and Tibetan Buddhism. I feel free to draw from a wide variety of inspirations: faith traditions, nature and the arts. I have been guided and inspired by the teachings of John Makransky, Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Susan and Bill Morgan.
My Approach
A consistent focus in my practice is helping people to increase their capacity for spontaneity and creativity in their lives. This includes dealing with all the challenges that life brings.
Difficult feelings like shame, anger, fear and grief “activate” us. We get overheated, are hijacked by them and lose our “grounded-ness”. These feelings persist and continuously distress us. Naturally, we want to turn away from them. But turning away is what keeps us bound to them! Instead, we need to learn to attend to them with lots of kindness and care.
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.” – Rainer Marie Rilke.
In my practice, psychotherapy collaborates with creativity, mindful-awareness, and compassion in a “holding environment”. The Holding Environment is a physiological, (body/breath), & attitudinal, (heart/mind), posture of caring attention. You can also think of it as a refuge or a base camp. A place to which we can always return and rest. We all want to feel more at home in our own skin.