DESCRIPTION OF CLINICAL PRACTICE
I am a depth psychotherapist in private practice for twenty-two Years in Sebastopol. I work with adults and couples. Often, my patients are spiritual practitioners from various traditions, but mostly Buddhist. I therapy, we work on issues of grief, loss, codependency, abandonment, parental alienation, narcissistic wounding, childhood trauma, blocked creativity, and self- acceptance. With spiritual practitioners the focus of the work includes psychospiritual integration, incarnating in this life, and ending a spiritual bypass; where a practioner uses the teachings and practices to avoid the truth of and addressing emotional issues arising from one's personal history. Testimonials on my work can be found at:
www.robertleverant.com/testimonials.html

VIPASSANA/MEDITATION BACKGROUND
I have been a practioner for some forty-five years. I studied with Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, H.E. Kirpal Singh and his successor H.E. Darshan Singh, Gury Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, Spirit Rock Vipassana teachers, and the Ven. Tsoknyi Rinpoche III. Rigpa and mindfulness/compassion practices are my main focus.

RELEVANT CLINICAL TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
My clinical training is in somatic (mind/body/energy -- Lomi & Reichian), perinatal, Gestalt, developmental/object relations, cognitive and Jungian psychological theory and approaches to wholeness, grounding, and relationship to self and other. I supervised interns at the Lomi Clinic for two years and led a support group for the staff of Face to Face in Guerneville. For three years, I co-led with Richard Miller, PhD. a weekly non-dual meditation group in Sebastopol. In Spring of 2010, I offered a CEU class at Sonoma State University entitled "Psyche and Spirit: Psychotherapy & Spiritual Practice." In Spring of 2011, I will hold a weekly meditation group limited to meditators who have done or currently are in psychotherapy. Its focus will be psychospiritual integration and developing compassion for self and other.