Laurel Vogel
Counselor/Writer

Innen Encounter/Seattle Relational Counseling

• http://seattlerelationalcounseling.com

I practice Relational Therapy, a type of relational counseling my partner and I have just written a book about (In a Cradle of Words: Intimate Encounters in Relational Psychology, available at Amazon)--an extraordinarily powerful method of using intimacy and relatedness to create new healing pathways in the brain (limbic resonance). This emotion-focused listening and attending alleviates loneliness and facilitates an ability in clients to connect more deeply in their relationships and in relationship to themselves and the natural world (through Ecopsychology).

I also practice writing therapy, and am just developing a method of online writing therapy. I'm looking forward...[more]

I practice Relational Therapy, a type of relational counseling my partner and I have just written a book about (In a Cradle of Words: Intimate Encounters in Relational Psychology, available at Amazon)--an extraordinarily powerful method of using intimacy and relatedness to create new healing pathways in the brain (limbic resonance). This emotion-focused listening and attending alleviates loneliness and facilitates an ability in clients to connect more deeply in their relationships and in relationship to themselves and the natural world (through Ecopsychology).

I also practice writing therapy, and am just developing a method of online writing therapy. I'm looking forward to the challenges of starting and running a virtual office.

The book we just published is more than just a therapy book. It's a memoir and a love story. It will open your heart as you read it. Very compelling and moving. Even if you aren't a therapist, there's something in it for you. Check it out on my blog. [less]

Laurel 's blog: Ninth Elegy

• 3 Strategies for a World Crisis–let’s start a conversation

  Posted Sun, 21 Sep 2008 by Laurel

  Can you think of some sustainable strategies for building community and staving off disasters? I'd love to hear about them.

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• A Psychology of Poetry–3 Things I learned from an Emily Warn Poem

  Posted Mon, 15 Sep 2008 by Laurel

  A poem evokes something felt in a reader, and the substance of that feeling is not easy to transcribe or explain. Poet and reader are in a subtle relationship--a contemplative space, where meanings emerge, where poetry serves as a connecting point between the inscrutable inner worlds of two psyches.

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• Ecopsychology 101- Stop, look around, attend, care.

  Posted Mon, 08 Sep 2008 by Laurel

  Psychological health and maturity arrives when we start to be able to give back to our world. When we grow up, we no longer feel comfortable in our infantile ability to take without giving back.

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• Relational Dread

  Posted Fri, 05 Sep 2008 by Laurel

  Real feelings and vulnerability are easy to hear. It's the stories and the blame that are so difficult, and that split people apart. But our tender fears and primal shiverings can connect us when we can notice and access them in a pure state and share them.

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• Longing and Belonging

  Posted Thu, 21 Aug 2008 by Laurel

  Hope is for something other than what is in front of me. It has a drug-like quality to it. It takes me away from what it means to live here, to work here, and to make and find community here.

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