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K. King, MA, SBT, Usui Reiki Master
ACISTE Certified Spiritual Guidance Counselor (ACSGC)
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- Spiritual Director
- Other
License/Certification | Organization/Issuing Body |
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30+ years: Human Services/Non-profit/Mental Health/Substance Use | Human Service Organizations in VT/NH/MA |
Somatic Breath Therapy Practitioner Certification | Power of Breath Institute c/o Jeremy Youst |
Open Dialogue Level 1 Certification | Institute of Dialogic Practice c/o Mary Olsen, PhD |
Community Herbalism/Organic Gardening Apprenticeships | Spoonful Herbals/Friends of Burlington Gardens, Burlington, VT |
- Distressing, bizarre or frightening experiences
- Paranormal experiences or aftereffects
- Spiritual experiences
- Other (please specify below)
~ Synchronistic Experiences
~ Mental Health & Substance Use issues
~ Depression & Grief
- Acceptance of Life
- Attitude Shifts
- Feeling ungrounded
- Finding life's purpose
- Hypersensitivities
- Integration
- Loneliness
- New goals, new directions
- Psychic aftereffects
- Relationship issues
- Stress
- Other (please specify below)
~ Recurrent Dreams & Nightmares
~ Depersonalization & Derealization
~ Feeling isolated from/not being able to relate to your family/peer group
- Expressive Arts
- Life Coaching
- Dream Interpretation
- Eclectic
- Interpersonal
- Mindfulness
- Music
- Narrative
- Spiritual Direction
- Transpersonal
- Other (please specify below)
~ Somatic Breath Therapy/Breathing Behavior Analysis
~ Moving Meditation (e.g., mountain biking, organic gardening, drawing, theatre)
~ Energy Healing
~ Open Dialogue
~ Herbalism
~ Dreamwork
~ Grief Counseling
~ Biofield Tuning
- Individuals
- Support Groups
- Families
- Couples
- French
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My general approach to spiritually transformative experiences is to first listen with deep openness. I feel this allows others to sense the catharsis of talking about their STE in an environment free of judgment yet highly attentive to the particulars that often unlock potential gems for self-growth and self-knowledge. This sort of focus is co-participatory: I am listening as a professional, but I am also absorbing, experiencing, and learning alongside each of you. I want those who seek my counsel to feel this cooperative energy—that they indeed have an advocate, one who is gently entering their experience as a sacred and vital event.
When very young (though of typical catechumen age) I was confirmed in the Episcopalian tradition where I attended Sunday school as well as weekly Sunday church services. Many of my early memories throughout my childhood are found in these traditional contexts. At present, I most identify with the paradigm of Postmodern Eclecticism. My personal mix highlights those influences which continuously seek connection to the natural world, including modern syntheses with moving meditation as a practice well for connection quests. One might rightly call me a Postmodern Eclectic with special experience regarding immanent, process-oriented paths of transformation.
As your Spiritual Guidance Counselor, my primary objective is to be present to your experience - to move with and share in your journey not only as an "expert" or "guide" necessarily but as a student with clear eyes and fresh ears. I value deeply the expertise that you hold of your own experience and encourage its presence as an integral teaching guide in our work together. Central to this, is my belief that when you share your expertise, you allow the movement of your narrative to empower your transformation. When your narrative can unfold, the dialectic between the experience and its transformational power can/will blossom - moving and revealing, the resolution within.
As the youngest and only child of adoption within a family of four children, I grew up with the experience and conflict of not being able to fully identify with my biology or environment. Given as well that my family knew not how to promote the safety and wellbeing necessary for the exploration and expression of my innate qualities, I learned at a very young age how to pull back and watch life from afar. The formative combination and unrequited connection to family and Self, set me on a life-long journey seeking alternative, indigenous and spiritual modes of understanding about the nature of human experience, identity and personality development.
Degree | School | Year |
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PhD program in Humanistic Clinical Psychology | Saybrook University | 2021-2026 |
School of Spiritual Direction | All Souls Interfaith Gathering | 2021-2023 (graduated June 10, 2023) |
PhD studies in Psychology (w/emphasis in Transpersonal Psychology) | Sofia University (formerly ITP) | 2012-2014 |
MA - Master of Transpersonal Psychology | Institute of Transpersonal Psychology | 2011 |
BA - Bachelor of Transpersonal Psychology | Burlington College | 2005 |
BS Studies in Social Work/Human Services | Springfield College | 1994-1996 |
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- By mutual arrangement
- By phone
- Other (please specify below)
~ In nature
~ Out in the community
~ At your home
~ Zoom (a private online classroom/platform)
My schedule is flexible, inclusive of weekends and evenings.
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