Hello There!

If you are in pain, and have been hurting emotionally, psychologically,
relationally, and/or spiritually for a while, please do not give up hope.  Please
know that healing is possible.  Yes, healing.  Not just managing the symptoms.
And not just surviving.  But being able to engage life more fully!

Calling to make an appointment and speaking to a stranger can be a stressful or
scary step to take.  Please be assured that you will be treated with utmost respect
and thoughtful consideration. The following poems by Rumi and Pierre Teilhard
de Chardin illustrate how I see the healing process.  I look forward to sharing this
process with you, as I have been blessed to share with many others.


                                                                                   -- Dr. Hsin-hsin Huang --


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The Guest House

This being human is a guest house
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

-- Rumi --


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Patient Trust

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything
to reach the end without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way to something
unknown, something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through
some stages of instability –
and that it may take a very long time.

And so I think it is with you,
your ideas mature gradually – let them grow,
let them shape themselves, without undue haste.
Don’t try to force them on,
as though you could be today what time
(that is to say, grace and circumstances
acting on your own good will)
will make of you tomorrow.

Only God could say what this new spirit
gradually forming within you will be.
Give God the benefit of believing that
God's hand is leading you,
and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself
in suspense and incomplete.

-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ --
Hsin-Hsin Huang, PhD
Psychotherapist, Pastoral/Spiritual Counselor, Certified EMDR Therapist