Existential Meditation Therapy
– ExMed Therapy –
Dave provides alternative individual therapeutic support for teens and adults utilizing a three-pronged approach he calls, Existential Meditation Therapy. ExMed Therapy innovatively infuses interpersonal psychotherapy with Vipassana meditation and contemplative inquiry of existentialism to help his clients achieve a new heightened sense of self-efficacy, confidence, control and freedom. He employs techniques scientifically proven to help reduce stress, fear and anxiety, elevate mood and boost memory and attention.
David has implemented this approach for traumatized teens, professional actors, high-performance athletes and top business executives.
“Historically, the most terrible things; war, genocide, and slavery, have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you into something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.”