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Transpersonal Psychology encompasses both traditional psychology and the psychology of spiritual experience.  I facilitate growth for those who are “cultural creatives.”  I also research extraordinary human experience, spiritual emergence and healing.  Those who have experienced trauma, spiritual emergency, or a dark night of the soul — often develop special awareness or perceptual abilities.  Extraordinary experience appears to be the portal to a biologically-based transformation of the human personality.  Yet such growth or transformation is a natural evolutionary process that everyone can access.  Disturbances such as depression, anxiety or physical illness can be vehicles of growth, and transformative processes.   Consciousness transforms when our egos are threatened and our hearts are challenged to open.  I assist in the emergence of the Self and the collective planetary awakening through the following steps:

	Consecrate your life Heal your pain  •  Commit to growth Make mindful choices  •  Live your passion  •  Share your vision
	You can't unring the bell. Worship all you can see, and more will appear. “Meaning makes a great many things endurable — perhaps everything. Through the creation of meaning ... a new cosmos arises.” —C. G. Jung “It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else and still unknown to himself.” —Francis Bacon “That is always best which gives me to myself.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson		Dr. Janet Elizabeth Colli Offering Counseling, Clinical Hypnosis and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)		“Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.” —Buddha, Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta “Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”     Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry's ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure.      “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”      —J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, p. 723)

	Transpersonal Psychotherapy encompasses both traditional areas of focus as well as spiritual experience. Transpersonal Psychotherapy offers a unique perspective on traditional areas of focus that include healing from trauma and abuse, anxiety and depression, and life-challenging illness, as well as relationship issues.  I believe there is a patterned and meaningful flow of life behind such issues, which can be unfolded by learning to communicate with symptoms. “Your biggest symptom or disturbance might be your greatest dream trying to come true . . . and your most powerful ally.” — Arnold Mindell As a transpersonal psychotherapist, I also deal with experiences that carry us beyond our ego or self-identity, beyond culture, and sometimes beyond time & space.  I specialize in helping people process and integrate transpersonal experiences.				“All these therapeutic strategies share the belief that, if the process behind the symptom is supported, it will result in self-healing and consciousness expansion after a temporary accentuation of the discomfort. Effective eradication of ... problems does not come through alleviation of the emotional and psychosomatic symptoms involved, but through their temporary intensification, full experience, and conscious integration.” —Stanislav Grof, M.D. (Beyond the Brain, p. 360) “... the driving force behind the symptoms seems to be ... the tendency of the organism to overcome its sense of separateness, or its exclusive identification with the body ego and the limitations of matter, three-dimensional space, and linear time. Although its ultimate objective is to connect with the cosmic field of consciousness and with a holonomic perception of the world, in a systematic process of self-exploration this final goal can take more limited forms: working through one's biographical traumas and connecting with the positive and uniting aspects of one's life history; reliving the birth trauma and tuning in to the oceanic state of fetal existence...; or partially transcending the limitations of time and space and experiencing various aspects of reality that are inaccessible in the ordinary state of consciousness.” — Stanislav Grof (Beyond the Brain, p. 360) “If properly understood and treated as difficult stages in a natural developmental process, spiritual emergencies can result in emotional and psychosomatic healing, deep positive changes of the personality, and the solution of many problems in life.” — Stan Grof & Christina Grof, 1990

	A Transpersonal Perspective: Trauma & Dissociative Experiences Social science research has found a connection between childhood trauma and altered-state experience. Initially, I help desensitize & reprocess trauma (see EMDR page). Together, we can then develop the unique sensitivities that dissociation initiates. By integrating our non-ordinary experience we ultimately change mainstream, consensus reality.				“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." — Count Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina) “Once you've learned a lesson hard, it's hard to unlearn it." — Eugene O'Neill (Long Day's Journey into Night) “.. the emergence [of difficult symptoms] into consciousness, traditionally seen as a sign of mental illness, may actually be the organism's radical effort to free itself from the effects of various traumas, simplify its functioning, and heal itself. — Christina Grof and Stanislav Grof (The Stormy Search for the Self, p. 24)

	A Transpersonal Perspective: Fear as a Transformational Door Whether posttraumatic stress, generalized anxiety, fear of public speaking, or avoidance of life transition — enormous energy is blocked. I help people confront the ways we limit ourselves, and support the creation of a path to a heightened energy. Depression as Being Down-Under Depression is subsumed life energy. We can fall victim to overwhelming obstacles and obstructions. I help people find the “keys” within to tap into our undermined strength — in order to attain a deeper, fuller life.				“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." — Soren Kierkegaard   “I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.” — D. H. Lawrence “Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in” — Leonard Cohen

	A Transpersonal Perspective: Love as an Invitation I assist men and women to move from dysfunctional relationship, fantasy and obsession — into the house of love. Often healing from addictive behaviors in relationship is a significant part of such movement.				“The ultimate adventure, when all the barriers and ogres have been overcome, is commonly represented as a mystical marriage of the triumphant hero-soul with the Queen Goddess of the World.” — Joseph Campbell (The Hero With a Thousand Faces, p. 109) “Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!” — St. Teresa of Avila (The Way of Perfection)

	A Transpersonal Perspective: Creative Illness Illness is Danger + Opportunity. Having survived cancer myself, I assist others through the transformational process of various types of illness. I help people make the consecration to move from illness as a life-threat — to a life-challenge.				“Your biggest symptom or disturbance might be your greatest dream trying to come true . . . and your most powerful ally.” — Arnold Mindell

	A Transpersonal Perspective: Dreamwork I excel in the interpretation of symbolic language, such as in dreams. Dreams attempt to communicate between the deeper parts of ourselves (as well as the “collective unconscious”) — and our conscious, waking self. Dreamwork involves the active integration of their messages into our enhanced lives.				“In our dreams the ageless perils, gargoyles, trials, secret helpers, and instructive figures are nightly still encountered; and in their forms we may see reflected not only the whole picture of our present case, but also the clue to what we must do to be saved.” — Joseph Campbell (The Hero With a Thousand Faces, p. 101) “[The unconscious] is the realm that we enter in sleep. We carry it within ourselves forever. All the ogres and secret helpers of our nursery are there, all the magic of childhood.” — Joseph Campbell (The Hero With a Thousand Faces, p. 17)

	A Transpersonal Perspective: Death as a Guide Whether the death of a loved one, after-death communication (ADC), or the death of an old part of ourselves, I help people transition through the death process ...to acceptance and rebirth. Through the wisdom inherent in the death process, “new life” awaits.				“The herald's summons may be to live, as in the present instance, or, at a later moment of the biography, to die.” — Joseph Campbell (The Hero With a Thousand Faces, p. 51) “No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist." — Ananda Coomaraswamy

	A Transpersonal Perspective: Spiritual Emergence As you connect with your core Self, and awaken to higher-dimensional realities — the expression of powerful energies through your body may require support. I am a clinical member of the Spiritual Emergence Network (SEN) [SpiritualEmergence.info], and the International Network of Experiencer Therapists (INET) [livingdirectory.net/INET].				“ ... the potential for a mystical experience is the birthright of all human beings...” — Christina Grof and Stanislav Grof (The Stormy Search for the Self, p. 22) “God is not nice. God is no uncle. God is an earthquake.” — Hassidic saying [quoted in Rollo May, Freedom and Destiny] “The thunderbolt (vajra) is one of the major symbols in Buddhist iconography, signifying the spiritual power of Buddhahood (indestructible enlightenment) which shatters the illusory realities of the world.” — Joseph Campbell (The Hero With a Thousand Faces, p. 87)

	A Transpersonal Perspective: Subtle Energy & Kundalini Awakening When energy awakens in the body, it can herald the re-structuring of one's life. I help people follow the path-of-least-resistance — to stabilize, sustain & nurture their energetic connection — to the river of life within.				“I lay on the bowsprit, facing the bow, water foaming into spew, masts with every sail, white in the moonlight, towering above me. I became drunk with the beauty, singing. And for a moment, I lost myself, actually lost my life. I was set free. I dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spray, became beauty and rhythm, became moonlight, and the ship – in the high, dim, starred sky. I belonged without past or future, within peace, and Unity. A wild joy. Something greater than my own life, or the life of man – belonging to Life itself, to God, if you want to put it that way. The joy of belonging to a fulfillment beyond men's lousy, pitiful, greedy hopes, and fears, dreams.      “And other times when I was swimming far out, or lying alone on the beach – I've had that same experience. I became the sun, hot sand, the green seaweed anchored to a rock, swimming in the tide – like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things, they seemed drawn back by an unseen hand, for a second, you see. Seeing the secret, ah, the secret, for a second, there's meaning. Then the hand lets the veil fall, that you're alone, lost in the fog again, you stumble on to nowhere, for no good reason.      “It was a great mistake, my being born a man. I'd have been much more successful as a seagull, or a fish.” — Eugene O'Neill (Long Day's Journey into Night)

	“The stars have moved closer. Perhaps they move closer every night. Perhaps there will be no snow this year.... Because this evening I have learned, my dear, that in this beautiful world of ours, all things are possible." — Isak Dinesen (Babette's Feast) “My only goal is that the hours we spend together are vital." — Ingmar Bergman		Janet Colli holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from The Union Institute. Dr. Colli's research partner, Thomas Beck [www.becolli.com], holds a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology. They earned undergraduate degrees from The Ohio State University; Janet earned her master's degree from The Claremont Graduate School. Drs. Colli and Beck are among the most skilled clinicians in the Pacific Northwest helping people who experience extraordinary events. Dr. Colli researches the role of trauma in entering transpersonal realms; she utilizes Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Dr. Beck researches healing and utilizes Clinical Hypnotherapy. As a consciousness researcher, the investigations of Drs Colli and Beck also extend to the scientific arena through co-authored articles in peer-reviewed journals. Their research integrates modern science, extraordinary experience and healing. In professional partnership for over ten years, their joint endeavors seek to enrich the quality of life and advance intellectual discovery. Together, they explore the frontiers of human consciousness. For consultation or counseling sessions, contact: 206.329.9235 (Seattle) or 360.678.7737 (Whidbey Island) or e-mail: becolli@mindspring.com	“ Give me the chance to do my very best." — Isak Dinesen (Babette's Feast)

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