Working With Me
“What shape waits in the seed of you to grow and spread its branches against a future sky?
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The essence of my work lies in accompanying people on their unfolding initiatory journeys through life. I see my role as that of a guide supporting the deepening of a person’s experience of the core of who they are and their increasingly lived connection with what soulfully wants to emerge in and as their life.
My approach is informed by 20 years of contemplative and soulcentric inquiry and 10 years of counseling and facilitation experience coupled with deep inquiry into the dynamics of human development, including: a master’s degree in clinical psychology, a master’s degree in clinical social work, various counseling trainings, a two-year certification training in Focusing–Oriented Therapy—an experiential, mindfulness-based, and somatic approach to psychological healing and development—a yearlong vision quest immersion, training in the facilitation of authentic life purpose discovery and embodiment, developing and teaching workshops that support people in orienting and awakening to their inner lives, and years of professional experience in artistry and the creative process.
By creating a space for encountering the deeper layers of our experience, our challenges, and the unfolding of our awareness and authentic expression, I partner with people on their journeys of continual unfolding, ongoing awakening, and walking their authentic path.
In what formats can we work together?
I work with people one-on-one either as a licensed psychotherapist or as a facilitator, both within a depth-oriented, contemplative, and somatically-informed context.
As a facilitator and guide, I work with people across the US and around the world through Emergent Inquiry, LLC. Continue reading below to learn more.
As a psychotherapist, I accompany people on their journeys through Soulcentric Psychotherapy, PLLC. As a licensed therapist (LCSWA) in North Carolina, I work with people who live in North Carolina via in-person or telehealth (video) sessions. To learn more about working together in this setting, click here to be redirected to my Soulcentric Psychotherapy website.
Information about my in-person group quests can be found on the Emergent Quest page.
If you’re searching for information on air hunger and natural breathing, please visit the Liberating the Natural Breath page. Our online course, Liberating the Natural Breath, is the most effective direction I can point people toward for help with non-medical air hunger and breathing dysfunction. You’ll also find pages for breathing FAQs, Testimonials, and Resources. There are live components within the course during which we will be able to be in conversation concerning your breathing. However, some people also request an individual session with me to discuss their breathing before joining the course. Although this is not at all necessary in order to join the course, if this is important to you, you can find information about this option on the Breathing FAQs page.
Emergent Inquiry: What does it look like to work together?
I work with people in a setting that is both conversational and contemplative. Whether we are discussing longer-term dynamics or what might be presently arising in your inner and outer life, our focus is typically on directly exploring the underlying, felt layers of conditioning and emergence that give rise to your current experience and that also hold the seeds of your deepest call and most authentic expression. I typically work with people in a setting that is in varying degrees experiential, depth-oriented, mindfulness-based, and somatic.
Regardless of the material in question, such as wounds, emergent awareness, stuckness, or growth, I believe that it is our ability to come into relationship with the implicit levels of our experience in a supported and guided space—rather than limiting our attention to verbal discussion only—that opens the way for real shifts to happen. When we truly allow space for what’s wanting our attention, anything arising in our experience can be supported in finding its own natural forward movement and integration. This level of contact with one’s own inner life is therefore at the heart of my work with people.
As material arises, we encounter it within a healing, evolutionary, and transformative context, attending to both the known matters and to what is freshly revealing itself beyond our current knowing at the edge of our consciousness. I find that what really drives most of us is not so much seeking temporary relief or a fix to make us feel better, but the pull of a deepening experience of life, of its vastness, of our intimacy with it, and of the song of our own souls. As we welcome more of our fullness and more of the threads of our own genuine self into our experience, everything we encounter in life can begin to become fuel for this ongoing initiation.
Ultimately, my work is about supporting people in continuing to open to the larger conversation with life that’s wanting to emerge. Inherent in my approach is an orientation toward questions such as what does it mean to be in an ongoing conversation with the depths of who we are? How can we respond to the whispers of life and walk our authentic path in the world? And how might we let our life be a response to and expression of our truest nature? At such an important moment in the human story and planetary story, the truth is that life needs us inhabiting our core nature and living our truest expression and gifts into the world. My purpose as a guide is to facilitate the beauty of each of us stepping further into the greater wholeness of who we are; I think that this invitation is an essential component of the Great Work of our time.
Getting Started
I work with people from across the country and internationally via Zoom. I also see people in person, for those who live in the Chapel Hill/Research Triangle area of North Carolina. Sessions typically last about 55 minutes. I work with people from all kinds of backgrounds and with a variety of interests and aims, and no particular kind of experience is required. Perhaps the only prerequisite for working together effectively is an openness to being in the process of exploring oneself and one’s place in the world. I’m happy to have a brief talk with you to discuss what it might look like for us to work together and see if this feels like a good fit for you.
Individual Sessions:
Individual sessions can be scheduled by contacting me via email or using the contact form below. I often see clients weekly or every other week, though it's also possible to work together less regularly. In our first session, we will discuss your preferences and needs and how we might work best together. Private sessions are charged at $130/session (via Venmo, PayPal, or credit card).
Some Kind Words
“I’ve been working with Simon for three years now, meeting monthly via FaceTime. Without exception we go places I could not go alone, harvesting insights, inspiration and clarity as to what’s in my heart and what’s mine to do. And after three years I’m still in awe of what we accomplish together. In ways I’m only beginning to understand it’s as if we become one being working together for a more beautiful world. He is a gentle, caring man, and wise beyond his years. He’s a good listener, he’s easy to talk to, he’s easy to be with. He uses a unique process to lead me inward, helping me connect with deeper parts of myself, helping me see things underneath things, helping me see myself and my relationships with more patience and love. Ah ha moments are not uncommon as we lean in together searching, seeking to see the world more clearly. It feels really good. It’s freeing. It’s nourishing, I think of it as self care, care for the heart, care for the soul. ”
“Simon is an incredibly gifted facilitator whose unique skills, intuitive insights, and integrated depth of wisdom combine to form a powerful process of authentic, somatic discovery of one’s inner dimensions. Simon has a gentle presence and creates a space for one to contemplate, heal, and reveal new aspects of self. He guides one into layers of acceptance and illuminates the aspects of self that need healing. His reflective questions, deep listening and techniques allow one to touch the core of one’s inner self where the truth resides.”
“Simon has a gentle strength. He creates a safe space where I feel free to explore going really deep, and I experience being seen, listened to, and supported. His instincts and intuitions are a great guide to allowing healing for what’s ready to be healed.”
“Simon is skilled as a guide into the wilderness of human potential. If you are seeking accompaniment in the journey of crafting your consciousness into ripe gifts, if you are ready to explore the gifts that are ripening in your life, and if you are open to the caring reflection of someone who will hold your journey in deep awareness; then I can recommend Simon Spire to you as an “anam cara” to those living a contribution to “a great turning.””
“I am deeply grateful for Simon’s patience, skill, and compassion. With Simon’s help, I’ve been able to re-integrate split-off parts of myself abandoned through trauma and hardship. Our work together accesses the immense wisdom within, which longs to embrace all of the aspects of the self which need to be brought into the light of Being. Simon’s gift is to bear witness to that which needs to be seen and heard and to hold it with you, gently and non-judgmentally. From there, he assists the movement and transformation that is possible for you at that particular moment in your journey. The result for me is a felt-sense of ever-expanding wholeness, and I am moving into a more authentic, peaceful, and grounded relationship with others, the physical world, and my spiritual journey.”
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