How it works
GETTING STARTED FOR THE FIRST TIME
Unlike psychotherapy, we don’t help you relieve symptoms. Instead, we find the unresolved needs behind those symptoms. We remove your suffering by removing cause for such pain.
In the meantime, we give you tools to lower the agony of pain. It’s okay to feel the discomfort of pain, and not suffer.
As you learn how much more you can actually endure, you receive an increasing number of supporters to address the root of your pain.
Your pain rises from within, that’s true, but it’s provoked from without. Together, we deal with both sides of your pain. The psycho portion, and the social portion.
Only by dealing with this as a psychosocial matter can you actually remove all of your pain. Modernity has lost this ancient wisdom and now suffers for it. Soon, you will not.
The weekly process
The process is much the same in each service. No matter what your service goal, you receive support for your psychosocial wellness. But with careful attention to your specific needs.
Good FIT for you?
Good FIT for you?
Good FIT for you?
Free consulting session to check if psychosociotherapy is a good fit for you.
Free consulting session to check if psychosociotherapy is a good fit for you.
Free consulting session to check if psychosociotherapy is a good fit for you.
Familiar path of psychotherapy to lay down a firm foundation for you.
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We continue this journey together using HIPAA-compliant communication channels. For video chat we use VSee, which you will receive instructions by email on how to use. You will receive emails from our ProtonMail account, which is also HIPAA-compliant.
Weekly online video chat sessions are 45 minutes within a 50-minute scheduled time frame. Each weekly chat is followed by supportive emails, to keep you engaged with that week's focus. And prepare you for the next.
This all flows from a service plan we agree upon, to target your selected service for your specific needs and goals. The service you select will guide our next step together.
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In the TransEconomic service, you take the Purpose in Life survey and the Meaning in Life Questionnaire.
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In the TransJudicial service, you fill out another long form providing information to calculate your innocence compared to exonerated cases.
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In the TransPolitical service, you fill out a form to correlate your political outlook with your psychosocial needs.
This stuff can get awkward and even painful. Especially if looking back on a wrongful conviction you'd rather forget. So we build up your tolerances for discomfort. You learn how much more you can handle than you think you can. And this insight can be liberating.
When facing a power differential created by these divisive differences, you generally have three kinds of options.
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Avoidant options. You can resign to your fate and do little to nothing. You can trace some of your anxiety and depression back to this imposed option.
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Adversarial options. You can take legal action or seek some other confrontational remedy. You may find some relief in this approach, but that relief may not last.
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Conciliatory option. You can consider the needs present on both sides, and proactively address them. You will likely find this path most fulfilling.
We will go over your options, and the pros and cons of each one. We will see together how popular generalizations draw many into opposing extremes. It's comforting at first, but painful in the long run.
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Others assume the arbitrary divide between employer and employee is set in stone, but you will know better.
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Others assume the arbitrary divide between guilt and innocence serves as the cornerstone to justice, but you will know better.
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Others assume the arbitrary divide between liberalism and conservatism arises from a chosen difference in opinion, but you will know better.
While others react in pain to these clashing opposites, you remain steady. You learn to handle yourself better, to stop the source of pain right in its track.
If all goes well, you will show signs of immediate improvement.
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Your measurable anxiety and depression levels should drop significantly.
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Your measurable cognitive and moral capacities should sharpen.
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Your measurable capacity to delay gratification should extend longer.
You leverage your documented improvements to attract interest in your progress. You engage this interest to invite support. You start with a key supporter, who will champion your cause. Because wellness is psychosocial.
When you show yourself ready to go psychosocial beyond a mere psychological focus, to welcome others along your wellness journey, we then "qualify" you. Once qualified, you are ready for the next step.
Familiar path of psychotherapy to lay down a firm foundation for you.
Familiar path of psychotherapy to lay down a firm foundation for you.
Good FIT for you?
There is no such thing as perfect mental health. No one is perfect, and all could use some supported improvements.
Now you don't have to complain of some diagnosable ailment or wait till symptoms overwhelm you before getting some help. Now you have this, psychosociotherapy.
Besides, if the help you need involves changing some environmental factor, what can psychotherapy do? After all, psychotherapy is not a good fit for everyone.
But then neither is psychosociotherapy. This is a one of a kind service for you to speak your truth to power in a way that power gets drawn positively to you. That calls for a different kind of balanced approach.
If you're wrestling with a host of internal demons and not ready to take on environmental factors (like speaking truth to power), this will likely be a frustrating experience for you. Psychotherapy would likely serve you better.
If you're only interested in changing external factors, then taking up activism would be a better fit. Only when you present yourself ready to address both internal and external contributors to your wellness will this be a good service for you.
Besides determining if this service provides a good fit for what you need, this free consultation will ask you some questions to "verify" you as a good fit for what we offer.
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Do you have a reliable Internet connection and a way to converse privately online?
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Is there someone you trust in your life who is ready, willing and able to join you in this journey?
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Do you have a list of contacts you think may support your journey toward your goal?
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Are you willing to learn how to turn your influential foes into influential friends?
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Are you free of any medical condition that limits your exposure to the ice and cold?
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Are you committed to a journey that disrupts popular assumptions how things ought to be?
If you can say yes to these questions then you're well on your way to being verified for this new kind of service.
We warm you up to this unique kind of service using the apps in the upper right corner.
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email - to orient you to this pioneering approach.
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SMS texting - for you to ask and receive answers about this in real time.
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chat - for us to start building rapport.
If we agree the fit is good for you, we move onto video-chat. This is when you schedule your first Book It session, depending on the service you are utilizing:
Along the way, you take some short assessments to use as a baseline for later. You will fill out an intake form to provide us with the information to better serve you. After our video session we will continue conversing by email throughout that first week.
Your free 10-minute consultation will use a video chat service we agree upon. Skype? Messenger video? Google Hangouts? We can cover that in depth in our email exchange. Ready to proceed?
Familiar path of psychotherapy to lay down a firm foundation for you.
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INCLUDE your champion
You continue using VSee for our weekly online chat. This time you share it with your trusted champion. You can either share your computer with your champion, or your champion have their own VSee account.
You will run through the same battery of quick assessments as before. This time you anticipate being able to celebrate your improvements with someone.
Any roadblocks you faced while pursuing your goal now gets shared with your champion. You only have me to talk with once a week, but your champion is far more accessible.
You may even inspire your champion supporter to pursue some or all of the same improvements you're working on. You become stronger together. A bond of two is not easily broken.
A bundle of several supporters is even better. Let's proceed.
INSPIRE your supporters
The idea is to expand your social capital. You know best what you know through others. We can't be everywhere we need to be, but others can be there for us. As we can be available for them.
Wellness is psychosocial. The greater your pantheon of social supports the better you can face life's inevitable downturns. Your improved tolerance for discomfort along with this expansion of support helps prepare you to speak truth to power.
Let's admit it, we're all a fragile twig when facing the world completely on our own. With a pool of ready supporters, we receive more job leads, more tips on where best to shop, and more emotional support when discouraged.
You will benefit from your growing social capital depending on the service you picked.
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In the TransEconomic service, you will practice interviewing strangers to test the marketability of your product or service.
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In the TransJudicial service, supporters can volunteer to help verify the information demonstrating your innocence claim.
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In the TransPolitical service, your supporters help you connect with the diversity of needs beneath the guarded rhetoric.
As you rely on your support team members, you give them opportunity to demonstrate their social value to you. You grow more comfortable asking others to help you accomplish what you could never accomplish on your own. You give them opportunity to polish their social and marketable skills for their own life's goals.
As you attract supporters to your cause, you form the core of the buzz around you.
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Others may hear you have an amazing idea for a product they desperately need to buy.
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Others may hear you need legal services for exoneration they could provide pro bono.
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Others may hear you can build a bipartisan coalition who need to craft a bipartisan bill.
Your support team provides an essential bridge to attract sponsorships. When wealthy donors were asked why they didn't give more, their most frequent response was not
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I couldn't afford it at the time, nor
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I didn't support that cause, nor
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I didn't trust them to properly spend the money.
No, the most frequent answer is that they were never asked. Together, with your team of supporters and a little guidance from us, you will do a lot of asking. Next.
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your sponsors
INVOLVE
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INVOLVE
your sponsors
Regular input from your sponsor, that could make all the difference.
Regular input from your sponsor, that could make all the difference.
Regular input from your sponsor, that could make all the difference.
INVOLVE your sponsors
This could be the most exciting part. Imagine the possibilities.
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Your most recent employer takes interest in your startup, and considers purchasing what you have to sell.
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The prosecutor who wrongly put you behind bars now supports your innocence with calls to the current county prosecutor.
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Former political foes become your political allies who share your vision that the true foe is toxic political fighting.
"What can I do to help?" they may ask you. "Well," you reply, "you can match dollar-for-dollar what my team of supporters have provided to get me this far." Or you go out of your way to ask them. And only take a firm no to keep you from asking again.
An vital part of this task has nothing to do with paying for this service. It is to inspire you to ask for what you need from those who can give it. And to keep asking until you get it.
If you do not ask, the answer is already no. If you do get a "no" you now know you have others options. And an array of supports to keep you from being crushed in despair. Be prepared for a yes by giving them no excuse to turn down your noble request.
When I volunteered as a counseling intern a few years ago, a fellow volunteer told me how easy it was for her to ask and then receive a $3000 corporate sponsorship for a trip she made to Mexico. She was just out of high school.
Corporations are abuzz with corporate social responsibility. For some it's just PR, but others truly are committed. If a company is willing to send a high school graduate to Mexico in return for spreading their branding beyond the border, what can they do for you while already on a supported path of goal reaching?
Normally, such sponsorships only go to nonprofits. But exceptions exist. In the field of grant providers, from foundations to government funders, corporate grants demand the least reporting for how the funds were used. Reporting how funds get used can be a job in itself. I know because I once had that job. Companies primarily care their brand benefits from their giving. That they are viewed as responsive to their constituents.
This services fills not only your need for support, but their need to support someone with their record profits. You may have to set aside some grievances you have against run away capitalism. In the process, you are balancing the playing field a little in your corner of the globe. And that's a start, in turning "wellness is psychosocial" into how we conduct our lives.
By the way, you only need one sponsor to match dollar-for-dollar to afford this step's weekly sessions. Additional sponsors add to your coffers, to help you draw closer to your goal.
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Funding for your startup.
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Funding to support your innocence claim.
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Funding to dissolve polarized politics.
Some of that extra money may go to your supporters investing hefty sums to get you this far. Before getting to this stage, we will have decided ahead of time how you are to best budget your receipts.
How you commit yourself to spending such funding can attract investors to fund your cause even more.
As you wrap up this step we expect your original goal is within reach.
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You are starting to receive an income from your passionate purpose in life.
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You are overcoming the barriers of a wrongful conviction.
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You are winning political battles by appealing to the needs on both sides.
You can continue with us to take this to the next level. We're still building out these services. Contact us if interest, and if you have ideas to help us develop it.
It's an amazing journey for the right person. Ready to give it a try?
Briefly how
The more you demonstrate improvement the more others will be drawn to see you succeed.
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Some of these will want to help you succeed.
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Some of these will willing pay for you to succeed.
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Some of these will invest a growing sum of money the closer you reach your noble goals.
The more support you receive from this cabal of those who personally know you, the more attractive of an investment you become to those with the resources to take you where you need to go to fully succeed.
We start this journey taking your "temperature" of your anxiety, of your depression, and such.
I am confident some of your anxiety and depression will naturally lift the more support you receive to take on the otherwise overwhelming pressures in life. I'm confident your immediate improvement will be enough to inspire those closest to you to support you to improve even more.
First, take a look at how psychosociotherapy differs from traditional psychotherapy. This page assumes you now appreciate the differences between the traditional focus on the individual and this more holistic approach.