It is interesting to note that today's world leaders, along with the greatest historical kings, emperors, presidents, and prime ministers - all of them had close advisers. The top athletes in the world today all have coaches. Modern captains of industry across the world - these men and women all have consultants. The greatest scientific and artistic minds (both present and past) all have mentors and/or teachers that help them evolve and "keep them on track." What makes us think that we deserve any less? What makes us think we can achieve our greatest aspirations and life goals without the aid of some periodic expert input and guidance?
Many people outside of the Denver metro area contact Dr. Parker Wilson to gain his consultation and advisement. He gets many emails and calls from people in other states and other countries. If Dr. Wilson and a potential client resonate particularly well, ongoing personal advisement services can be arranged. To learn more about Dr. Wilson's qualifications and education, please click here. If you are interested in retaining Dr. Wilson as your personal adviser, please contact him today for your free consultation.
Although Dr. Wilson dislikes the terms "life coaching," and "life coach," his phone services, on some levels, could be described this way. Personal advisement with Dr. Wilson, however, does delve much deeper than typical "life coaching." Because he is a doctor of clinical psychology and an experienced meditator, Dr. Wilson is often able to create awareness, clarity, and insight in his advisement clients; even when those clients have tried other methods and found them lacking.
Personal advisement usually follows the same three stage development process as AMI's mindfulness based psychotherapy, just in a more generalized way. These stages are: 1). The development of healthy mental awareness, 2). The development of clarity and healthy behavior (ethics), and 3). The development of penetrative insight (which is the union of healthy awareness, clarity, and healthy behavior). This latter stage creates and then solidifies the overall evolution.
In a nut shell, mindfulness (developed formally and/or informally) is emphasized as the primary tool for creating psychological awareness. An increase in awareness of our own mental phenomena (thoughts, emotions, judgments, beliefs, options, perceptions, etc) works to help us see clearly (from analyzing our own experience) that our behaviors in life and work might need some adjustments. Once the first two stages have been achieved and are firmly rooted, then the union of the two can produce penetrative insight and from insight comes a true transformation in a client's mind, speech, and behavior. Such a transformation will affect everything in the client's life, including: work, family, intimate relationships, and spiritual connections or religious practices.
Many people from around the country and the world have engaged Dr. Wilson's personal advisement services to gain or increase meditation and introspective abilities, to improve their skills in working with their own minds (thoughts, emotions, etc), to improve their ongoing relationships with friends, family, and co-workers, to facilitate the creation of meaning and purpose in their lives, to clarify questions about human experience and suffering (aging, sickness, death, etc), and/or to receive input on a wide range of business, personal, or spiritual matters.
Like psychotherapy, the duration of the personal advisement relationship is not set thing. The length of the advisement relationship is determined between Dr. Wilson and the client as the work moves along its natural course. Often a client has only three or six personal advisement sessions. Sometimes a personal advisement relationship continues for months. And many times, previous clients will just "check in" once or twice a year as a refresher or to further reinforce and evolve their previous work.
AMI's personal advisement services take place in two ways: 1). Via the internet (email, instant messaging), and/or 2). Via telephone. Both methods may be utilized depending on the client's preferences and circumstances. The typical scenario is one session per week (60 minutes).
It must be made absolutely clear that Dr. Wilson's personal advisement services are not psychotherapy. While these services can often be a valuable supplement to genuine psychotherapy, there is no informed consent, there is no doctor-patient relationship, and thus there is no doctor-patient privilege involved in AMI's personal advisement services. Moreover, these services are not capable of being as deeply penetrative and transformative as genuine, face-to-face psychotherapy (personal advisement is more generalized).
The initial consultation (20 minutes usually done via email or telephone) is free. Should you decide to become a personal advisement client, than the cost of each session thereafter is $95 for 60 minutes. Whether that 60 minutes is spent typing emails, using IM, or talking on the phone - the fee is the same. Compensation is always made electronically via this website (see fees and payment). Payment for personal advisement is always rendered prior to the beginning of every session.
After your initial consultation, if you decide to become a personal advisement client, you must download, print, sign, and mail the contract to engage in personal advisement to Dr. Wilson before any sessions (beyond the initial consultation) can take place. Once received, Dr. Wilson will sign this document as well and mail a copy back to you. This contract specifically outlines the nature of the personal adviser relationship, important policies, and the significant differences between personal advisement and formal psychotherapy.
If you are interested in retaining Dr. Wilson as your personal adviser, please contact him today for your free consultation.
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To schedule a private mindfulness meditation instruction session (either in person or via telephone) with Dr. Parker Wilson, please contact him today.