DEPRESSION- Living with Suffering Alone
Depressed feelings are a natural emotional reaction when we encounter difficulties that knock us down from feeling our regular self. We normally will automatically adjust our depressed mood back to a calmer status. It may takes a couple of hours or a few weeks, depending on how well our adjusting system works. However, sometimes when the difficulty is greater than our self-adjusting system, we will be out of emotional balance and stay in the depressed mood for a longer period of time. In that case, we do not know how to get out of our depressed feelings. That is when we seem to get stuck with depression.
ANXIETY – Waiting for Bad Things to Happen
Anxiety occurs when we run into stressful situations. We experience it everyday, since living in the modern world is quite stressful. We need to make the deadline in work, to think about how to fit in, or to face the challenges from others. We normally automatically adjust our anxious condition back to a more relaxed status very quickly. When we are able to get out of the stressful situation, anxiety basically begins to reduce. Nonetheless, the anxiety can become easily triggered in our daily lives and make life very difficult for us. In this case, we can hardly be our relaxed self and perform as who we really are. It might be caused by traumatic incident, or has gradually formed in our nerves system as a habitual reaction.
When Challenges in Life Arrive…
Living in the modern world, we encounter psychological and emotional challenges on regular basis. The suffering that emerges from these inevitable challenges often gradually limits our ability to enjoy life. Some find it difficult to cope with this suffering and give up this inner battle. They pass time like there is no hope.
In the process of giving up the inner battle and losing hope, the trickiest thing is that we are usually unaware of how we has unconsciously making things worse.
Turning your life crisis into
the opportunity for you to grow
Work with Kai-Lin
Kai-Lin is an English/Chinese speaking Therapist/counsellor and has been practicing counselling/psychotherapy and life coaching in North America for over 16 years.
He specialized in MINDFULNESS work that facilitates clients’ inner growth to overcome their difficulties.
Mindfulness Counselling
Mindfulness Counselling is a gentle, humanistic and holistic therapeutic approach that focuses your efforts through an emphasis on growth rather than deficit.
During your experience in psychotherapy with Kai-Lin you will focus on cultivating your own innate and personal capacities to overcome psychological difficulties. He believes that this ability to self-heal is found within you, and only needs to be discovered and explored. You will focus on a positive, forward looking process of self-transformation.
Mindfulness Coaching
As an Integral Coach, Kai-Lin will help you to explore your concerns in depth and assist you to reach your goals.
In coaching, you will be more actively participate the coaching sessions with Kai-Lin. He will evokes your potentiality to grow into who you really want to become. In Kai-Lin’s life coaching, addressing your concerns and reaching your goals are the process of practicing your own becoming. When you come closer to your goals, you will also gain more power to live your life fully and follow your own unique path through life.
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About KAI-LIN
Here is how Kai-Lin describes his own journey:
“I was born in Taiwan. Like most people, when I was young, I had to deal with many challenges and forms of personal suffering. My pain was around abandonment, rejection, shyness, educational violence, societal criticism and suppression, bullying, discrimination, depression, death anxiety, and meaninglessness. After enduring a few crisis experiences at an early age, my interest in understanding human suffering was evoked. The more seriously I looked into my own suffering, the more I realized that the only way to understand it is to learn about human inner experience. I began to study Buddhism, Taoism, J. Krishinamurti’s philosophies, Ken Wilber’s transpersonal and integral theories, and other writings in philosophy and psychology.
As my understanding about inner experience grew, I could not allow myself to continue to live a life without personal meaning. I decided to let go of a steady career and take on a new adventure to the United States. The new venture offered me precious opportunities to fully engage the study of inner experience. Through the study of personal growth, psychology, and spiritual practices, I determined to become a helping professional, was certified as a life coach, and then went on to complete a Master’s degree in Integral Counselling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco.
At this, my personal journey entered into the study of consciousness and transformation, psychological issues and healing, the human condition, and existential and Eastern philosophies. I discovered that depth psychotherapy (an approach that encompasses Transpersonal and Gestalt psychology and Hakomi therapy, among other approaches) reflects on significant spiritual practices (Buddhism, Taoism, and Integral Yoga) and is very effective in transforming consciousness, and in mobilizing energy in the psyche and in the body. Depth psychotherapy facilitates real change and allows conscious learning to flow. In other words, the learning process that happens on the intellectual level is too limited and could hardly release one from pain rooted in one’s personal Shadow. Only when real personal transformation takes place can one begin to experience inner freedom.
In my study and inner process over the years, everything I have studied points in an obvious direction: towards spirituality. When it comes to spirituality, everything naturally falls into the right place. The more I experienced the depth of spirituality, the more clearly I could see the issues residing in different levels and states of consciousness. Allowing spiritual practice to be the most significant part of my journey, I came to understand life in a more direct, honest, and human way. I began to see that all my experiences were equally valuable to my learning and growth, including both its darker side (pain, struggles, frustration, confusion, and sometimes a sense of being lost) as well as brighter aspects (ego maturation, heart opening, expansion of consciousness, and other positive spiritual experiences).
In the areas of personal growth and spiritual development, my learning has been grounded in an ever-deepening understanding of Buddhism and Taoism, attained through a close study of writings by a wide range of authors, including Bryan Katie, Ken Wilber, Jack Kornfield, Pema Chödrön, Reggie Ray, Genpo Roshi, and J. Krishinamurti. The most important teachers for me are Professor Lu Grey (my mentor at CIIS), the Classical Asian philosophers (most notably Buddha, Laozi, and Zhuangzi), the Vietnamese buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, and above all the American spiritual teacher Adyashanti.
Education and Experience
2001
- Certified Integral Coach – New Ventures West – San Francisco, CA, USA
- Started Life Coaching – Private Practice
2005
- M.A. – Integral Counselling Psychology – California Institute of Integral Studies – San Francisco, USA
2006
- RCC – Registered Clinical Counsellor – BC, Canada
- Formed Vancouver Mindfulness Counselling Services – Private Practice – Offers Individual, Marriage, Family and Group Counselling
- Started to offer Mental Health Courses
2008
- Supervisor for Counselling Psychology Interns
2009
- Started to present Personal growth courses
2010
- Peer Support Group for Local Psychologists and Counsellors
- Started to offer Meditation and Mindfulness Courses
- Started to offer Body-Mind-Spirit Work
Courses offered
- Stress, Anxiety, and Depression
- Emotional Management
- Psychological Trauma
- Critical Self
- Diviersity
- Maturing Ego
- How we relate and love
- Living with Death
- Intention
- Unconscious
- Meditation and Self Awareness
- Life and TRUTH
Organisations Presented
- Vancouver Mindfulness Counselling Services
- BC Association of Clinical Counsellors
- Vancouver Friends for Life Society
- S.U.C.C.E.S.S
- Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Society
- Vancouver Orchid Club
- Health Initiative for Men
- Vancouver Multicultural Authentic Community