Awareness Therapy
Space of possibilities
Every problem and, of course, a dream is a manifestation of potential that can be discovered in deep and holistic awareness.
Awareness Therapy is an authorial, integrative, and innovative approach that seeks to identify the common denominator of psychotherapy and coaching for their non-eclectic integration and enriches them with even deeper knowledge of awareness and human potential drawn from Tibetan Buddhism.
“Awareness Therapy is an approach that integrates scientific methods of humanistic-existential, transpersonal, and subjective psychology, as well as spiritual Tibetan Buddhist practices.
The starting point of this therapy is helping a person to live through their experiences in the problem area and the area of development directly during the session: acceptance, understanding, and the discovery of new possibilities.
The core principles of Awareness Therapy are not ignoring a person’s empirical experience, openness toward one another, attentiveness to oneself and others, a supportive environment, beneficial motivation, and respect for one’s own experience.
That is, it is also a practice of awareness — but of deeper awareness, which is not only an observer but also a creator of reality. This is carried out in the form of sessions as well, though not meditative ones, but more familiar therapeutic sessions, in which the client’s awareness is directed toward their inquiry — toward resolving that inquiry — with the support of the therapist.
When negative memories arise, they are proposed not only to be acknowledged but also to be worked through, opening the client’s potential and developing through these ‘cases.’ As a result, it becomes significantly easier to remain ‘here and now.’
In Awareness Therapy, mastering the skill of awareness does not require additional time — this occurs during therapeutic sessions: with the help of the therapist, a person ‘switches on’ their capacity for awareness, awakens, and receives something similar to an initiation. And this is immediately used to resolve the inquiry.
In Awareness Therapy, any person capable of reflecting on their state can receive help (that is, with the exception of people in psychotic or severe psycho-emotional states). However, at the initial stages this requires the participation of a trained, empathic, and aware therapist who conducts therapeutic sessions.”
— Stanley Krippner, PhD, Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies, former President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, the International Association for the Study of Dreams, many divisions of the American Psychological Association, and one of the founders of transpersonal psychology.
Hello! My name is Igor Kanifolsky. I am a medical psychotherapist, teacher, and researcher of psychotherapy. I live and work in Kyiv.
My training includes the study of medicine at the Military Medical Academy, and during and after that — familiarity with various fields of psychotherapy, healing, psychological counseling, and coaching — from classical hypnosis of V. M. Bekhterev, the BEST system of Ye. I. Zuiev, NLP as taught by Marilyn Atkinson, through the humanistic approach of Carl Rogers, psychoanalysis, Jungian psychology, Gestalt therapy, and constellations — to the coaching of John Whitmore, Timothy Gallwey’s Inner Game — as well as philosophical systems and spiritual practices, the pinnacle of which appears to me to be the teaching of the Great Perfection — Dzogchen — in the transmission of one of the founders of Tibetan Buddhism, Guru Padmasambhava, and his modern successors: Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, Patrul Rinpoche, and others.
I strive to integrate this knowledge and experience into Awareness Therapy.
My goal is to make psychotherapy simpler, deeper, and more effective — and to teach this to others.
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A free opportunity to become acquainted with the approach and support one’s own awareness.
The approach is developing; there are articles, books, students, a professional community, an Ethical Code, and Principles of Supervision.
Please contact me, I will be happy to assist you!
The most direct path to any goal lies through awareness. Through deep and holistic awareness, which is the basis of everything. It leads to liberation from symptoms, obstacles and problems, and then to precise and clear thoughts, words and actions that will be a manifestation of your desire to create the good that you want. It is this path that we offer you in Awareness Therapy.