Black Sun Healing

If you are seeking professional healing, the most critical factor is the healer themselves. As a society we are used to a profession of healers who believe that book knowledge directly translates into healing ability. That paradigm is wrong. We are teaching a generation of healers to rely on a small amount of knowledge without requiring them to make gains in knowledge or, more importantly, wisdom. Knowledge is infinite and a master's degree only teaches a small amount of the breadth of psychological knowledge out there. Knowledge without wisdom is downright dangerous or ineffective. I have many therapist friends who all universally agree that most therapists are incompetent, a fact backed by research from the National Library of Medicine stating that between 33-65% of therapist are harmful or ineffective rather than helpful. In fact, studies show that therapists rarely become more effective after leaving graduate school, with many actually becoming less effective with time, a finding that you can read about here and here by the American Psychological Association, the leaders of scientific research of psychology in the United States and the largest professional psychological organization. What's worse is that nothing is being done to change this problem, just in the opposite in fact. Utah is currently in talks about lowering the minimum requirements necessary to get a degree as a therapist. I can personally attest to the danger of knowledge without wisdom from mistakes that I’ve made in my career as a professionally licensed therapist, despite the fact that I went to a master's program with nearly double the average national standards as a typical program for my degree (3 years instead of 2 and I had over 200 hours of live supervision as opposed to the required 100 hours of supervision), a career I willingly gave up for moral reasons listed on my "About" page, but summarized by the statistics listed in this paragraph and lack of effort to change it. ​​​​

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My best qualification to be your healer is the fact that I've put my absolute best effort into healing myself. Any healer can only help you as much as they've helped themselves because they will project their own perception of how healed a person can be on to you, which is based on their perception of how much they can heal themselves. If they believe there is a limit to their own healing, they won't encourage you to heal to the level that is possible. They might say something like “anxiety for that is normal” as opposed to saying “ready to get rid of that anxiety permanently?” Huge difference. And yes, fully getting rid of emotional triggers is possible, I see it all the time in my personal life and the results of my clients. 

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My greatest strength is my devotion to healing in general and consequent wealth of knowledge about many kinds of healing techniques and theories as well as my own accumulation of anecdotal knowledge from my personal obsession with healing, which has been an obsession. I've easily spent hundreds of hours healing myself over the past two years and have worked through everything I thought was unchangeable about me. A lot of things used to trigger me, but not anymore. The amount of things that trigger me in my day to day life is now about 0-1, rarely punctuating my stable state of peace and happiness, a state I believe that I can get you too as well if you are willing to work for it. I promise that my greatest asset to you is my own healing journey because it has taught me not only how to heal efficiently, but has also taught me the extent to which a person can heal.

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I want to explain how I see my practice as different from traditional therapy. My current paradigm around healing is different from the profession of mental health therapy in the following ways:

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1. Qualifications - Hurt people hurt people and healed people heal people. The qualifications for being a healer should be the level of one's internal commitment to healing themselves, something I am 100% committed to and spend most of my time currently trying to do. I will share more about my knowledge base I draw upon further down this page.

2. Continuing Education - Typical therapists are required to have 40 hours of continuing education every two years. They do not need to be dedicated to bettering themselves or their practice more than that, and many don't. Moreover, nearly all professional trainings I've been to are reviewing basic therapy principles which makes them worthless in all but legal requirement. Most professional therapists probably end their day and kick back to some Netflix, a perfectly understandable and acceptable use of time. Contrast this with the fact that within the last year I've read over 120 books (50,000 pages) to expand my knowledge, listened to nearly 100 hours of a philosophy podcast, learned six new methods of healing, and developed two new healing methods. When I have free time I spend it learning more resulting in far more than the 20 hours the average therapist is required to learn in a year plus the hours they spend casually learning. This is my passion so I don’t need a requirement to force me to learn, I never stop actively learning. This mentality has helped me know a lot about different ways to approach healing.

3. Focus - Therapists focus on healing people from diagnosis, I focus on healing them from fear for I believe that fear is at the root of unhappiness. I don’t teach coping skills or management techniques or any of the traditional methods psychotherapists use, even though I know them, unless it's specifically needed. A healed person naturally shifts to healthy behaviors, removing the need to teach them as well as the difficulty in implementing them. Most clients experience natural, subconscious shifts without having to work at behavioral or emotional change consciously.

4. Vehicle of Change - I only use methods that engage the subconscious mind. Traditional therapists are primarily taught methods that deal with the conscious mind and so very few mental health therapists use the subconscious mind as the primary vehicle of healing. The subconscious allows for far quicker and far more comprehensive healing than the conscious mind allows. I hardly need to know anything about a person in order to help them. In fact, I don't really need to know anything about a client's problems at all besides the general idea of what they struggle with. I don’t heal people, I guide them in how to heal themselves through self-accessing the wisdom of their subconscious.

5. Methods - Most of what I use I've created myself. All are informed by effective therapy techniques, but they are not the same and I believe that my versions are more effective. I don’t even like most of the theories of the major psychological fields as they are informative, but aren't effective. You won't find the methods I use anywhere else.

6. My Knowledge and Ideas - I rewrote this home page on 8/26/25. It's 8/27/25 now and I created a new theory synthesizing quantum physics, the concept of resonance, frequency states based on emotion in spirituality, bilateral stimulation, and visual meditation. I call it Joy Theory which you can read about on my resources page. I try to learn from a wide knowledge base, not just books about psychology, in order to get new ideas and synthesize those ideas into new psychological theories. I go over my knowledge base further down on this page but I draw from a lot of fields to help with healing. This link brings you to the general foundational ideas of Joy Theory before I even started testing it, which demonstrates how I create a theory and how it develops as I test it.

7. Existentialism - My spiritual belief system leads my practice to incorporate much more existential counseling than traditional psychotherapy. I think the weird should be explored, not ignored. I’ve also read just about every scripture from any religion you can think of and probably more, so my knowledge of religions far exceeds the average person's religious knowledge. Philosophy is another area of knowledge I've explored extensively allowing me to approach existentialism from an informed philosophical lens as well.

8. Personal Experience - Personal research and experience is not neglected in my practice as it’s an equally valid way of knowing what works. I don’t rely on scientific backing as the sole authority. I do what works, even if it’s weird or against prevailing paradigms.

9. Diagnosing - I do not use DSM diagnosis nor diagnose clients in any way. My perspective is that fear creates diagnosis (for the average person) and I don't need to label fear anything other than what it is.

10. Title - I am not a therapist. I consider myself a fear counselor or healer.

 

While for some this break from tradition may be uncomfortable, substantive change is rarely comfortable if ever. I choose to try to live a life based on living my morals and values rather than relying on appearances and a doctored self-image and so far this is what it has led to. I believe that radical change in our society is necessary and I'm willing to try to be the one who takes a radical stand for the change I wish to see in the world. While it is eccentric, I believe this mental freedom has allowed me to push past the boundaries of what most licensed mental health professionals even consider possible for their clients.

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I believe that healing is a human right and will work with you on a price that works for you if you can't afford my standard fee of $150 a session. It's more important to me that you heal than for me to make a lot of money. I recognize that I won't be the right person for everyone, but just know that as long as you see me I will do my absolute best to help you get better. I won't give up on you and your healing and we have a lot of different methods to try. Many of the techniques I use are a little weird, know that upfront, but they work, and they generally work really well. Each one of them is very unique so if you don't like what we are going or how we are doing it, please let me know and we will change our methodology.

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As evidence of my commitment to your healing I will teach you any method of healing I know so that you can do it for yourself, even if we never meet. All healing methods I use and how to do them are posted on my resources page under "Healing Techniques" located here so that you can access them at any time. I believe that everyone is able to heal themselves and successful healing in my office means that you leave feeling self-sufficient, even if you need a reminder of how to do it a time or two.

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My psychological knowledge is a benefit of seeing me. In addition to the healing techniques I promote, I am also familiar with many other theories including all psychology theories of both Social Work and Marriage and Family Therapy (typically therapists only are taught one or the other and few care to learn the rest) and others I researched independently. Some theories are shared across the two main types of therapy degrees so I'll only include them in one field as opposed to both but Social Work theories include: Psychodynamic Theory, Attachment Theory, Social Learning Theory, Motivational Interviewing (MI), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, (REBT), Brief Task-Centered Therapy, and Solution Focused Therapy as well as therapy models including: Humanistic Psychology, Systems Theory, Radical Social Work, Critical Social Work, and Feminist Theory. Marriage and Family Therapy theories include: Bowen Family Systems, Contextual Family Therapy, Symbolic-Experiential Therapy, Satir Human Validation Model, Milan Family Systems, Structural Family Therapy, Strategic Family Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and Gottman Therapy. Other therapies I've researched include: EMDR, Jungian Therapy, Light Therapy, Trauma theories such as Exposure Therapy, Stress Innoculation Therapy, Cognitive Processing Theory (CPT), Somatic therapies, Yoga (yes, yoga is highly effective for trauma), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness, Differentiation, Hypnosis, Drama therapies, Art therapy, natural ADHD approaches, meditations, breathing techniques, drug-assisted therapy, and various skills like conflict resolution, communication, anger management, etc. I am passionate about healing so I've read a lot. If you like reading, I have great book suggestions.

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Philosophy is another area that I find highly beneficial to my practice because it teaches how to question what we think we know and introduces many ideas that expand how I think. I have explored pretty much all major philosophers including Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, Descartes, Hume, Marx, Epicurus, the Stoics, Kierkegaard, Beauvoir, Hobbes, Hegel, Hume, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Sartre, Heidegger, Leibniz and many others. Their ideas are drawn upon in helping people heal as well. The podcast Philosophize This is a podcast I HIGHLY recommend as it simplifies the concepts brought up by the major philosophers in an easily digestible, often entertaining, and paradigm shifting way.

 

Spirituality is a part of my life but not a necessary part of your healing experience and each person's experience will be tailored to what they want. I have spent a lot of time exploring spirituality by fully reading religious texts including those of Mormonism, Christianity, Gnosticism, Essenes, Judaism, Islam, Druze, Baháʼí, Buddhism, Zoroastrainism, Doaism, Hinduism, New Age Spirituality (a lot of this one), Paganism, Witchcraft (way misunderstood), Celtic beliefs, Egyptian beliefs, Shamanism, plant medicine, and even the canonical books of atheism such as The God Delusion and The End of Faith, both of which I agreed with despite not agreeing with atheism. The breadth to which I have explored religion allows me to meet anyone's religious preferences or needs and provides my clients a unique perspective to spirituality as a whole.

 

Lastly, I would like to become as effective of a healer as possible, and as such, I require your feedback. Please tell me what you think about the methods we use and be honest about whether or not they worked, even if you choose not to see me anymore as it will help people down the line. Your feedback is my only way of knowing what I'm doing well and what I need to improve on, as well as what is working, so please help me learn by liberally giving me feedback. I value your opinions and perspectives and I promise I won't get offended as I know I'm not perfect and still have things I need to work on. I want our experience together to be collaborative and would appreciate your honest feedback as I give you mine.

 

I look forward to helping you become the most authentic, confident, and healthiest version of yourself!

 

 

FYI: The EMDR and Counseling Center was the name of my previous company before rebranding to this one, hence why the reviews are listed under that name.