Clinical, Counseling and Consulting Services
Dr.
Casmar is no longer accepting new patients.
(former patients please see
this page!)
Coping with physical, emotional and relationship stress, adjusting to unwelcome,
unexpected or dramatic changes or managing chronic illness can be made much
easier by gradually discarding habitual patterns of negative thinking and
behavior and replacing them with satisfying, healthy and mindful ways of living.
The key to doing this is in understanding yourself and others. How and why are
you suffering and what do you need to be happy? How can you better understand
others and relate to them effectively?
The Heart of Understanding yourself begins with finding a way to access your
inner resources. Developing a daily meditation or relaxation practice based upon your own
philosophy and values and committing to practicing this method acts as a
grounding agent for your life. The Heart of Understanding others is to learn
ways to communicate compassionately and with the wisdom that others want to be
free of suffering and to find happiness as well. Individual work with a
psychologist who integrates these processes often allows you to quickly learn
ways to become your own therapist.
Our time together will include designing ways for you to
be your most effective self. Research has shown that active meditation,
relaxation or hypnosis produces well being, reduces pain and increases energy.
There is also a great deal of evidence that therapy produces results equal to
those produced by medication for mood disorders and diseases of stress and
adjustment. Because you know yourself better than anyone else possibly can, I
work in concert with you on goals you select to improve areas you think need to
be improved. My approach is warm, active, direct, and includes methods from
traditional, evidence based psychological theories as well as Buddhist
principles that are tailored to your own faith and values. I am a professor of
psychiatry mentoring students at the UCSD College of Medicine and a staff
psychologist serving veterans in the Spinal Cord Unit at the Veteran’s Hospital
in La Jolla. I have been practicing Tibetan Buddhist meditation for 17 years under the
guidance of authentic teachers.
Latest Classes! See the Current Class Page for Descriptions
Please explore this site for more information about my work and feel free to contact me for more information about adult individual sessions, classes, and workshops for groups, healthcare professionals or business leaders.
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Conveniently Located Near University Heights, North Park, and Hillcrest |