SELF DISCOVERY is a path of inquiry, choice, responsibility and empowerment. While self improvement is a common goal, self discovery is an uncommon path towards reaching that goal. Attention is a primary tool of self discovery, and Jim's approach to working with people on personal, professional, existential, or spiritual issues starts with training in strengthening and managing the resource of attention. The very problems that bring you to Jim become the training ground for development.

Through Making The Moment Matter®, Jim's approach to self-discovery, you are trained in the principles and mechanics of how you organize your experience moment-to-moment. Getting beyond your own psychology is one result of this training. This is why the program often attracts people in the field of psychology.

Jim mostly works with individuals via telephone. New clients inevitably describe their surprise at how present, intimate, deep, and effective the sessions are. The work is practical and experiential. Jim's goals are to help clients take responsibility for their experience in the moment, become free of automatic responses, and ultimately become bigger than anything the universe throws their way.

Clients tend to fit a certain profile: even though they may want help with limiting or destructive patterns of behavior, or depression, anxiety, panic, grief, etc, they are mostly therapists themselves. Second to that population, they are either professionals who are mostly in the health or helping professions, or students in those fields. The third population is people who have spent a lot of time in self reflection and self inquiry, either through effective therapy or through their own personal or spiritual work. In general, Making the Moment Matter® works best with people who, while having problems or concerns they want to deal with, are self directed and want to be their own therapist through life's challenges. They value developing a spacious sense of self, clarity of perspective, and a focus towards action.

Phone sessions tend to be 90 minutes to two hours, weekly or every other week. Rates are described on the Rates Page. Clients may opt to visit Jim in person for intensive work and Jim is also available on a per situation basis to travel to your location for training or crisis intervention.

practical experiential telephone psychotherapy, counseling, emotional intelligence training, problem-solving, mentoring, professional supervision, and business consultation, with an orientation of mindfulness, self-responsibility, and self-discovery

"The moment is the unit of measurement of experience. A moment is the distance between one noticed detail of experience and the next noticed detail. The sharper one's attention, the more moments one experiences and the richer that person's experience is."

Jim Lehrman