Todd B. Peyton, LPC, KYI
Licensed Professional Counselor (US)
Certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor
Jungian Dream Work &
Mind/Body Integration
Relationship Counseling &
Conscious Communication
Integrative Counseling
Having practiced psychotherapy and meditation for over twenty years, my approach to counseling is to work naturally with both mind and body. The answers are within us and to heal and grow we need support, guidance, and authentic connection.
Counseling has its strengths in clarifying stories we tell about our lives, developing insight about our identity, and exploring meaning, but lacks the tools to process deeper layers of emotions and trauma stored within the body.
Integrative counseling opens space to talk through important personal issues while also offering techniques to work with the body to calm, stabilize, and release patterns of emotional discomfort.
Jungian Dream Therapy
Dreams are expressions of the natural language of the psyche communicating with itself. Dreams are also a source of intuitive knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom. We are privileged to retain awareness of dreams when we wake as they provide valuable information regarding the needs of the soul.
Soul, psychologically speaking, is the essential force within us seeking consciousness, wholeness, and integration.
The strange images and twisting narratives of dreams may seem irrelevant at first glance, but upon closer examination reveal an artfully crafted commentary on the condition of the inner world to guide psychological development.
Mind / Body Integration
Scientific research has shown mind/body integration techniques to have a positive effect on mood, self-esteem, and mental clarity.
Meditation, breathwork, movement, and stretching directly impacts the physiological systems responsible for governing emotions and thoughts. Over time, these practices transform negative unconscious patterns making it safe and comfortable to be in our own skin.
Entering the body as a therapeutic practice is a personal choice. People are drawn to different levels of intensity and commitment. If you are interested in developing a mind/body integration practice used alone or in combination with psychotherapy, we can collaborate together to find an approach to best fit your needs.
Relationship Counseling & Conscious Communication
Relationships are highly complex with vast creative potential. Because individuals are intrinsically different, and have differing sensitivities, needs and interests, conflicts and misunderstandings inevitably arise.
For healthy and enduring relationships, it is important to practice conscious communication. Conscious communication establishes psychological and emotional safety allowing relationships to navigate conflict constructively and creatively.
Without safety and effective communication, relationships can devolve into stagnation and unconscious attempts at exerting control through emotional manipulation and hidden agendas which can be harmful over time.
Practicing conscious communication helps couples to move forward into a shared sense of purpose, values, empowerment, and freedom.
About Todd
I have over twenty years professional experience in school settings, employee assistance programs, teaching classes and workshops, responding to front-line critical incidents, over eight years supporting US service members at bases overseas, private practice, and teaching Kundalini yoga.
As a Jungian I have the distinction of being the last analysand of the late author, Robert Johnson (He, We, She, Innerwork), I have also analyzed with Dr. Anita Chapman of the Jungian Intermont Society in Asheville, NC; and Father Gregory Santos, Zurich trained analyst and Aquinas Theology scholar in Flagstaff, AZ. In addition I have been supervised by the author and international lecturer Dr. Eduardo Duran (Cultural Imperialism, Buddha in Redface).
In 2009 I transitioned to Thailand where I was invited to study Vipassana meditation at Kyiatisaung Monastery in Thaton, Myanmar. Over a period of seven years, I ordained periodically as a monk. Alongside my Jungian training, while living and working in rural Hawaii and Navajo Nation, I was immersed within indigenous spiritual and healing traditions.
Most recently I have become a certified Kundalini instructor. I have studied other forms of yoga, but Kundalini is, for me, the most salient because it is specifically designed to address psychological, emotional, and spiritual issues. Kundalini Yoga, Theravada Buddhism, Aquinas Theology, Indigenous Spirituality, Jungian Analytical Psychology, and Professional Counseling all share in the same ethics and goals of supporting individual healing through the expansion and growth of consciousness.
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Please contact me regarding rates, I have a standard rate but able to negotiate fees appropriate for your situation.
