1:1 Sessions
My work with individuals is driven by whatever is most alive and important to each person. You are not someone to be fixed or changed. You are welcomed in your wholeness and your parts, your great heart and broken heart. Through deep listening to you, we follow the vital threads of your unfolding life.
About Lisa Ferguson, Ph. D.
My sweetspot in working with people is the intersection of awakening and healing, and how love wants to move into action.
My work includes:
Spiritual inquiry
Psychological healing practices such as Internal Family Systems/parts work
“Worldwork” or an exploration of how navigate the metacrisis from greater wellbeing and capacity
Together we explore your unfolding journey according to what is most deeply meaningful to you.
I hold a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology, with decades of experience offering a variety psycho-spiritual approaches to wellbeing and awakening. My approach is integrative, compassionate and presence-based. My background includes spiritual inquiry, meditative and compassion practices, trauma-informed nervous system restoration and regulation, leadership embodiment coaching (based in martial arts), dreamwork and psychological depth work, teaching qigong, permaculture (co-creating with the web of life), unwinding racism and sexism, integrating non-ordinary states of consciousness, systems thinking and interpersonal neurobiology.
I’m a healing arts practitioner and sometime organizer and activist. I also worked in the corporate world in tech for over a decade. I especially welcome people who are called to respond to our world in crisis, whether in your work, parenting, activism or daily life. Whether you are burned out or just getting started, I can support you in greater clarity, ease and alignment through the exploration of “engaged nonduality”.
My most important training is through my own experience and working with skilled mentors and practitioners. Suffering and a belief in my own insufficiency drove much of my spiritual and psychological exploration. What a relief to discover (through all that striving) that I didn’t need to strive at all. That awakening is a coming home, not an escape. That healing is about wholeness, not fixing “flawed” parts. At the heart of my journey has been an unfolding deepening of “nondual compassion”: the embodied love in action that arises from a recognition of non-separation, and a natural kindness toward any struggling parts.
My approach to working with people is based on the principles of Awakening, Healing and Serving
Awakening
is the essential recognition that we are not separate. Not only are we deeply interconnected with the web of life and our human family, we are truly not separate - we are of the same essence. As this realization deepens, we experience our innate wholeness that does not need to be earned, improved or fixed. We can relax into being and welcome all of our human experience.
Healing
is the process of moving toward emotional wellbeing rooted in compassion and essential wholeness. Through processes such as parts work, nervous system restoration, meditative inquiry and compassionate attending, our emotional weather patterns and conditioned tendencies are not problems to be fixed but opportunities for fully being .
Serving
involves listening to our inner wisdom and following what is truly alive and resonant for us. In this process we attune with both our deep knowing and the collective field, and allow the expression of our unique gifts, our life work in all its forms, to be an embodied expression of love in action. Any challenges or “obstacles” are welcomed as opportunities to deepen in awakening and healing.
Free Consult:
Free 15-minute consultation available to see if we’re a good fit
Fees:
Fees are determined on a case-by-case basis. Sliding scale and mutual aid options available.
Testimonials
Lisa Ferguson, who has studied closely with me for the past five years, brings clarity, kindness, and a deep dedication to the truth to her work with others, supporting their inner healing, self-recognition, and empowered engagement with the world.
-John J. Prendergast, Ph. D. , author of Your Deepest Ground, The Deep Heart and In Touch
Lisa Ferguson is a remarkable teacher and wise guide who embodies truth and spiritual integrity. She skillfully supports deep inquiry for anyone seeking awakened action as a genuine response to the multiple crises humanity currently faces. Her compassionate presence and embodied wisdom offer a nourishing container for those opening to essential nature as a living truth. The seeds planted during your time with Lisa will grow deep roots and emerge in authentic and surprising ways.
-Stephanie Lopez, LCSW, LISW-S, President, iRest Institute
Lisa Ferguson's “Awakening – Healing – Action” program gave me the opportunity to meet other people in the non-dual community who have a shared passion for social justice and a shared understanding of the one great heart we all share. I especially appreciated the beautiful way that Lisa facilitated the group: starting with a meditation, holding each person with care, making space for all that was arising in us. I love the lightness of being that Lisa exudes without falling into spiritual bypass.
-PB (Participant in AHA Program)