Brent Piper Knoxville, Tennessee

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About Me

I do deep psychological work to help people get right in their relationships and in their work life.

My work is different from a purely goal oriented tactic. We go deeper than that, into the terrain of the unruly heart, the unpredictable, but vital, nature of instinct. Into the terrain of the yin and the yang, order and chaos, creation and destruction, masculine and feminine. If a person chooses one or the other they lose balance of mind.

Now, some folks want to stick at goal level, which is fine. But what is often the case in cursory goal work is that there are two distinct parts of the psyche at play that have deep roots - and both parts deep down want to work on the same team. There is a conflict at a deep level about what the person wants. But in their current form, they fight. Goal work often tries to hack the psyche to boost one side and overwhelm the other. This might work short term, but if the pattern is not resolved at depth, it will ultimately fail, reappearing in the disguise of another set of clothes.

We dig into the depths necessary to help your vitality find synthesis, resolution and freedom. And what a psyche wants is for the whole of it to find integration so it can move with energy and creativity - versatility and vision in relationships, work, and life as a whole.

Why I work this way.

I have spent more than a decade helping clients dig to their depths and refine, and sometimes recreate the trajectory of their life.
In my studies at the Gestalt Associates, I spent 4 years studying the mind-body connection - how relationship patters are stored in the body. Learning the value of mindful breathing and awareness of the body in order to listen to the body.