https://www.dustinkerrone.com/home daily 1.0 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/1632261052340-FEY5CE0YI8ZFPJEAFDRK/Dustin+Kerrone+Joy+Alaska+1.jpg Home - Gentle. Intentional. Playful. Compassionate. Welcome! I’d like to share some of my experience, learning, and perspectives on these pages. If some of what you find here resonates, I look forward to connecting further with you. I offer a heart-centered paradigm of therapy and spiritual counseling which acknowledges different forms of suffering while focusing on the possibility of immediate collaborative healing in the present moment. During our sessions, I will attentively follow and enter into your current emotional experience. We may spend quite a bit of time there, or in many instances I will share my intuition and imagination in caring and creative ways that can catalyze a distinct state shift from anxiety, hurt, or shame to relaxing self-regard and more buoyant vitality. This intimate interpersonal dynamic, suffused with loving kindness, hones in on the vibrational qualities of each arising feeling and related imagery to stimulate a palpable expansion of your awareness and mood, often leading to fresh insights and enhanced well-being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/1632269694653-7DZS0P7GYX9BMM4R2H62/Dustin+Kerrone+Sedona+Sky.jpg Home - Expansive. Multidimensional. Invigorating. Now. Try this on for size: A New Earth of ascending consciousness and love is arising like a majestic phoenix bird out of the ashes of our personal and societal suffering, spurred on by the pandemic and recent liberating movements for Social Justice. I am honored and thrilled to travel alongside you in exploring the immense possibilities for life, drawing new hope from many exciting, converging threads of ideas and activities, including Emotional Intelligence, Neuroscience, Radical Acceptance, Mindfulness, Quantum Physics, Astronomy, Channeling, Plant Medicine, Peak-Experience Integration, Nonduality, and so much more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/1632233810980-AW7NFDLKXJNP8RJ0BFS9/Dustin+Kerrone+Inside+Banyon.jpg Home - . . . so why not experience it now? When Alan Watts says, “Ecstasy is inevitable,” it seems to me he is pointing toward our deep roots in the divine oneness of the universe. From this perspective, each of us is really a Source Being experiencing what it’s like to be human. That makes you an intrinsic, essential part of the universe as it is unfolding in perpetual, blossoming, expanding bliss. And all this is happening right now. You don’t have to wait until you die to meet God. You are a shimmering spark of the Divine Light. Oneness does not need to be achieved. It’s already here, and you are an indispensable aspect of it. I appreciate the opportunity to have shared some of my thoughts with you. It would be an honor to walk alongside you in support of healing and living in ecstasy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/6fdbdb60-7839-4954-ace0-40f191643fe0/Dustin+Kerrone+Ecstasy+Master.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/55328e63-e033-43c4-a9e8-2cef41ab22f6/Dustin+Home+Page+Brad+V3.jpg Home https://www.dustinkerrone.com/nature daily 0.75 2021-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/1632348929972-UF8YSM8A2GKRR8ALUI0N/Dustin+Kerrone+Joy+Nahiku+New.jpg Immersion in Nature - Appreciation of Nature as an essential part of the therapeutic process. I spent many years of my childhood surrounded by the majesty and immensity of wild Alaskan mountains, rivers, and glaciers. That formative experience has given me a lifelong devotion to natural beauty and the intelligence found woven throughout planetary ecosystems. After many years of fully engaged urban living in Los Angeles, I have found spending time in unspoiled rural settings to be profoundly inspiring for my own growth, and a wonderful new influence in my work with clients. I enthusiastically encourage you to immerse yourself in Nature as much as possible. That may be studying the intricate leaf patterns of your favorite houseplant, looking up at the full moon, or hiking into the Grand Canyon. If possible, find a shady spot where you can slow down and observe and feel into the remarkable symphonic rhythms and patterns of the natural world. Many different emotions, thoughts, and anxieties may arise at first, but consider allowing Mother Earth to hold you in her full embrace, and resist the urge to “figure it all out.” I find that when I stop thinking, analyzing, and ruminating, I have more energy and receptivity for admiring Gaia’s glorious self-expression in all of her geological and biological diversity. This process can lead to a release of worry and stress, and a delightful feeling of true emotional freedom. I am excited to support your expeditions both small and large into Nature, and am happy to share everything I’ve learned about the process. Our bodies are also part of nature. Healthy eating and exercise are essential for healing. As organic creatures, we emerge and evolve from earth’s ecosystem just like all other animals. Thus, appreciation of Nature begins with regular care for our own bodies. I have been practicing healthy eating and physical fitness for many years, staying current with the latest scientific research. This activity has been the foundation for my own psychological healing and growth, and I am eager to share my knowledge and experience around diet and exercise to help you love your body and feel great. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/d6489262-28d0-4f45-9081-48db91487cbd/Dustin+Kerrone+Big+Rock+Alaska.jpg Immersion in Nature https://www.dustinkerrone.com/about daily 0.75 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/5a6fdeb4-d359-4d1c-b965-ffc61531238e/Dustin+Kerrone+Snow+Rev.jpg My Bio - Alaskan Childhood. Discovering City Life. Community Organizing. Psychological Training. Spiritual Spelunker. Return to Mother Earth. I’ve been an avid explorer of different organic and supernatural realms since I was a latch-key kid growing up with a single mom in the grandeur and strangeness of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. I left home when I was 16 and made my way to Los Angeles, which led to many youthful adventures, propelled by my budding understanding of being gay. I started and sustained my career at the Los Angeles LGBT Center for 25 years, where I learned the skills of community organizing, helping to guide the creation of three different service centers supporting the health and empowerment of diverse individuals. I was drawn to develop a better understanding of the human psyche while still a teenager, and have been studying many different aspects of psychology ever since, including psychoanalytic, existential-humanistic, emotion-focused, and cognitive-behavorial modalities. The work of C.G. Jung has had a particularly strong resonance for me, especially with his elucidation of many meaningful archetypal patterns that motivate our emotions, desires, and actions. I received my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology at California State University Northridge, and began seeing psychotherapy clients in 2007. I become a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in 2011 (#50038), and more recently also became licensed in Alaska (#197115), Arizona (#15575), Colorado (#0002518), Hawaii (#775-0), New York (#002085-01), Oregon (#T2159), and Washington (#LF61259122). I offer psychotherapy via video for clients throughout those states, and provide spiritual counseling for individuals everywhere. I invite you to call or text me at (323) 309-5350 or email me at dkerrone@gmail.com if you’d like to have an initial 20-minute video consultation, free of charge. https://www.dustinkerrone.com/oneness daily 0.75 2022-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/1632297099795-2MJIF0DU911JL39ILD04/Dustin+Kerrone+God+Speaking+Larger.jpg Oneness - Countless names for one ineffable, inclusive unity? There’s so many different ways we humans try to describe or point toward the ultimate qualities of existing in our universe. I have found in my own explorations that the most fulfilling path for sustainable connection to the divine is to shed my beliefs or ideas about the ineffable, and focus on my visceral experience of what feels most palpably thrilling, beautiful, and fulfilling. This can be a profound surrender into the deepest possible acceptance of the present moment, whatever emotion or perception is arising, or it can be the most indescribably breathtaking peak experiences of wonder, gratitude, and freedom. I am eager to support your appreciation of the twin spirit-sisters of acceptance and awe. I think both bring us closer to recognizing that we are ultimately one unified presence. No one is excluded. Each of us belongs here equally. Such an experience of profound inclusion can substantially help heal the wounds of trauma and oppression, leading to a palpable feeling of total liberation. https://www.dustinkerrone.com/fitness daily 0.75 2021-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/1632366776545-TOVIL95H92RDDDG4PGYC/Dustin+Kerrone+Kupueokahi+Beach.jpg Health & Fitness - Healthy Diet & Regular Exercise as Essential Foundation for Well-Being and Enlightenment I’ve been a food and fitness enthusiast since my adolescence, and it has been a primary support and catalyst for my psychological growth, spiritual development, and capacity for vigorously exploring our beautiful planet. I am eager to share with you what I’ve learned, and what practices have produced the most long-lasting and sustainable results. I’ll be writing more on this page in the weeks to come, offering some tips for developing a realistic and satisfying diet and exercise plan. https://www.dustinkerrone.com/diversity daily 0.75 2021-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/1632367678859-2VQX96QF2ED74FMTWXGX/Dustin+Kerrone+Flower.jpg Diversity - Honoring the essential equality and distinctiveness of each and every person. I am deeply interested in your life experience in all of its remarkable uniqueness and specificity. My own identity as a gay man has been a primary compass for personal growth, and has inspired me to help create a wide variety of community services for the highly diverse Los Angeles LGBTQ communities. Just as important has been my gradual process of learning how to listen carefully to those who have different experiences than mine. My therapeutic and spiritual work with clients is profoundly informed by the Social Justice movements supporting the long-overdue empowerment of Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latinx, and all People of Color. None of us are truly free until all of us are fully liberated. https://www.dustinkerrone.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-09-27 https://www.dustinkerrone.com/peak-experience daily 0.75 2022-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/1632285875629-M6XATDZEN007WSVJ1XZ1/Dustin+Kerrone+King+Merged.jpg Peak-Experience Integration - You can live every moment of your life as a peak experience. Perhaps you are climbing a steep mountain in silence, or dancing and singing wildly to your all-time favorite song. Whatever the activity, peak experiences of all kinds can move us into a state of ecstasy and palpable connection with the divine. But there can also be a painful crash after going up high, and the return of daily life can sometimes feel like a big letdown. In addition, many spiritual adventures can have a mix of different emotions, all the way from pulsating fear to timeless bliss. Drawing from my personal experience with a wide variety of inner and outer adventures, I can help you navigate soft landings, while also deeply honoring the significance and complexity of your odysseys, in all of their wondrous qualities, no matter how strange or unusual they may seem. For many of us, it can be difficult to find another person who has the capacity to really understand and appreciate what happened at key moments of emotional intensity. I endeavor to attentively listen to your description of big experiences with my mind and heart wide open. I can also support you in articulating and metabolizing all the related emotions and insights. By synthesizing how you felt during your peak experiences, you can more and more embody that high vibrational quality throughout your daily life. https://www.dustinkerrone.com/the-practical-stuff daily 0.75 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/1632709599023-EF9C7TVUICXOGTK4F5RO/Dustin+Kerrone+Green+White+Blue+Tall.jpg The Practical Stuff - Here’s some basic information about the logistics for our interactions. I offer psychotherapy for clients throughout Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. Spiritual counseling is available for everyone, wherever you are located. My sessions are conducted via video conferencing, including Zoom or FaceTime. I can also speak with you on the phone if you prefer. Initial Video Consultation I would be happy to meet with you through video for an initial 20-minute consultation, free of charge, to discuss the possibilities for our work together. To arrange a time for our initial contact, please call or text me at (323) 309-5350 or email me at dkerrone@gmail.com Length and Frequency of Sessions My sessions are normally 50 minutes, though occasionally I will suggest scheduling a longer session depending on your needs. A majority of my clients see me once a week, though in certain circumstances more frequency may be advised, and for some folks, every other week works best. I find meeting at least once a week at the beginning of our work can help to get some traction and build momentum, but I am quite flexible, and willing to tailor our schedule to fit your current life situation, needs, and desires. Some clients get what they need after a brief series of sessions, while others find my regular weekly support to be useful for two years or longer. Fees My standard fee for a 50-minute session is $275. I can offer sliding scale, schedule allowing, in cases of economic need. Health Insurance I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Alaska, (#197115), Arizona (#15575), California (#50038), Colorado (#0002518), Hawaii (#755-0), New York (#002085-01), Oregon (#T2159), and Washington (#LF61259122). If you have a PPO plan in those states, I can provide you with a receipt to submit to your insurance company for partial reimbursement for psychotherapy provided by an out-of-network provider. https://www.dustinkerrone.com/career daily 0.75 2021-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/1633012227602-50DMQG1ZXZZKN26AXDSZ/Dustin+Kerrone+Rabbit+Ears.jpg Career - Experiment. Navigate. Lead. Include. Enjoy. For most of us, finding a meaningful and sustainable way to make a living is a primary focus in life. And most ways of making money and finding fulfillment involve a complex series of interpersonal relationships, whether you’re working at a grocery store, film studio, or multinational corporation. I’ll help you navigate those relational dynamics in ethical ways that support your advancement while being humane and empowering of those around you. My work with clients around career and leadership development is grounded in my learning over the past 20 years growing my own career at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, where I evolved from being an STD counselor to overseeing a staff of 85 individuals delivering public health services to diverse communities throughout the city. I’ll be sharing more here in the coming weeks, including thoughts about finding or changing careers, organizational politics, leadership development, and learning how to work less while still providing for yourself. https://www.dustinkerrone.com/spiritual-counseling daily 0.75 2022-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/db2dde20-e1de-42dc-8805-a664fda54a8e/Dustin+Kerrone+Alaska+Vertical+Rev.jpg Spiritual Counseling Love. One of my greatest personal discoveries has been finding an abiding unconditional divine love within, one that I believe each of us can learn to access, for ourselves and toward all other beings. This kind of love is so beautiful in its own right—and can also serve as a polestar in navigating the opportunities and challenges found in our interpersonal relationships, including with family, friends, sex, and romance. Abundance. It can be life-changing to move toward a celebration of abundance and gratitude, especially when that is replacing an older default attitude of financial and spiritual scarcity. Personal guides. The feeling that we are each painfully alone in our own minds may be a distortion of what’s actually happening. Many of us are learning how to open up to the felt presence of higher selves, angels, ascended masters, extra-terrestrials, inter-dimensionals, and Source itself, providing a heart-healing sense of true belonging in a universe imbued with generous love and inspiration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/281e93e8-ef5a-4e8e-a082-818c4aa7afb3/Dustin+Kerrone+Iao+Valley+2.jpg Spiritual Counseling - Mystery. It seems to me that all ideas we have about the sacred are different ways of pointing toward the great ineffable mystery of existence that is inevitably beyond our current capacity to understand, but which perhaps we can learn to enjoy right now in a felt way, especially when we tune into the emanating vibrations of love, soul, spirit, universe, multiverse, omniverse, and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/1d5df556-8996-49f5-8c99-fd7e35f734b0/Dustin+Kerrone+Spiritual+Counseling+Home.jpg Spiritual Counseling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/b2d053b2-a03c-438b-b00d-97deb24a2478/Dustin+Kerrone+Alaska+Lake.jpg Spiritual Counseling Channeling. Human beings have been “channeling” different voices, entities, and personalities throughout our history, as described throughout sacred scriptures, literature, and art. Now with easy access for most of us to YouTube, there has been a wonderful renaissance in the vibrational beauty and quality of messaging coming from a wide variety of individuals who are publicly offering free wisdom in a channeled state. I can help you get better oriented in this ever-evolving resource, offering suggestions for viewing those channeled beings who I have found most inspiring. Many of these communications can be experienced as spiritual activations or transmissions even more profound than the words or sounds being shared. You may already be aware of your own ability to channel, or if we broaden the notion a bit, perhaps each of us is continually channeling different aspects of our being. Higher dimensions. A prominent theme in the New Age/New Earth community is the understanding that humanity is in the process of ascending to what’s referred to as the fifth dimension, and the possibility of moving into even higher dimensions. While these concepts may not correspond exactly to current scientific theories around multi-dimensional physics, there appears to be increasing consensus about their qualities as described by a wide variety of channelers and other spiritual intuitives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/aeaa3c22-f1ef-408d-9f86-8033bc16774a/Dustin+Kerrone+Sandbar+Wave+2.jpg Spiritual Counseling - Embracing your empowerment, alignment, and freedom. While my personal life odyssey will naturally inform how I support your spiritual development, my goal is always to help you to find your own unique way into connection with Source, or Oneness, or however you want to approach the sacred. While I may share my learning, heart impulses, and intuitions with you, I strive to never impose a particular religious system, but rather support you living in total freedom, trusting your own intuition, just as it has been my deepest joy to find that kind of liberation for myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/e0945936-795d-4633-81e7-eed4ea378bb0/Dustin+Kerrone+Smile+Banyon+Rev.jpg Spiritual Counseling - Our life experiences as spiritual training. I look forward to helping you discover the emergent wisdom I believe you already have within you, arising from your divine essence and also the accumulated knowledge of every moment you’ve been alive. It has been delightful to gain appreciation for how every experience in my life has contributed to my spiritual evolution, while also keeping myself ever-more open to new inspirations. Ever since being a gay kid growing up in the midst of Alaskan wildness—nurtured by my free-spirited mom and the soulful indigenous women who helped care for me—I have been endlessly fascinated by the question of my own existence, identity, purpose, and possibilities. This curiosity has led to the exploration of many different spiritual practices, along with professional education and training in the art of psychotherapy, with an emphasis on Jungian inner work. For over two decades, I dove deeply into engagement with my own unconscious shadow-side, gaining substantial self-knowledge but also increasing humility about the incredible wondrous vastness of the universe within and the multiverse all around. In recent years, I have regained an enriched appreciation for the light, and the re-ascendence of the sacred feminine, along with the emergence of a new kind of heart-centered masculine in the process of healing from dominating impulses. All this learning has inspired me to seek out places of natural splendor, where Mother Earth can hold me in her inherent rhythmic wisdom, and where the inspiration of the ancestors and many other guides feels readily accessible. Now my life is devoted to savoring the eternal quality of every precious moment, through both peak experiences and a daily practice of embodied living in gratitude and awe. Integral to this approach to life is the honor of engaging with other likeminded folks for reciprocal encouragement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/1633012046050-DQGRDWLWMBJ4UIX6ER2E/IMG_2861.jpeg Spiritual Counseling - Embracing the vibrational quality of every moment we spend together. If you come to me for spiritual support, I will initially explore with you what would be most helpful during our time together. I can offer a wide variety of resources and maps, some of which are described briefly below. I can also help you work out the knotty kinks in your thoughts, perhaps to help reconcile seemingly conflictual spiritual concepts. For most of the individuals I work with, the biggest benefit comes when together we can enter into the present moment and learn to tune in to the many different qualities of the here-and-now. While our spiritual ideas, memories of peak experiences, and visions for the future can provide wonderful guideposts, what is happening right now is, in my experience, when divinity fully emerges. I may suggest that we slow down our process, attending to our breath, practicing an attitude of acceptance toward whatever feelings or sensations may be arising. As we become curious about what’s happening in the present, we are each offered a choice for how to move into the next moment. It may be helpful to go deeper into the present feeling, and learn more about accessing warm compassion for difficult emotion. Or you may feel ready to actively heighten your perspective and soar into expanded multi-dimensional awareness and ecstasy. I will stay present with you in whatever direction you want to go, providing openhearted encouragement and safety throughout your ascensional process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/82f2fafd-61aa-4238-b1b8-49dd351e77f6/Dustin+Kerrone+Cloud+Land.jpg Spiritual Counseling Acceptance. Learning how to accept ourselves and each other unconditionally can be enlightenment itself, creating a liberation from shame, sin, and judgment that creates a wonderful new receptivity for direct connection with the divine that is, in my experience, already present within. Light. Our biological existence is very much dependent on the light of our sun, and perhaps likewise, we are each truly beings of light which we can learn to relish in every moment, and also enhance through appreciation of our chakras, those vortexes of light each radiating a different color of the rainbow from significant locations in our bodies. There are also so many other ways of working with light as it beams brightly throughout our consciousness, environment, galaxy, and beyond. Vibration. Regularly asking myself “What is my vibration now?” gives me the opportunity to possibly raise that energetic emanation in a way that can bring more joy to every moment, and also improve my relationships with other people, while making me more open and available for connection with guides and entities operating at higher vibrations and who are eager to support my spiritual growth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/ee5e83e5-889a-4815-bbea-57b98fa58f6f/Dustin+Kerrone+Grotto.jpg Spiritual Counseling Ancestral and galactic wisdom. Learning to honor and help revive the profound shamanic wisdom of indigenous people throughout the globe feels like an essential healing of human history, and a bounty of support for reconnecting with our beautiful planet and the spirits living amongst us. In addition, each of us has a complex lineage going back thousands and even millions of years, with possible influences from other civilizations and entities. Many people today identify as “starseeds,” expressing a profound felt connection to other societies and dimensions beyond our own solar system and perceived reality. Rewriting our past. Spiritual development often involves coming to terms with ways that we’ve experienced injustice, trauma, abuse, and/or neglect. Paradoxically, in that very process of sincerely accounting for the past, we can develop a new perspective and fresh narrative about our personal history, and recognize that each of us is so much more in soul, spirit and love than how our trauma and suffering might try to define us. Oneness. Consider that you are an absolutely beautiful and utterly unique shimmering spark of the full light of Source coming to know itself through you, and together we form one glorious unity consciousness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/8c4fba30-1337-44e5-ab44-19138212096a/Dustin+Kerrone+Iao+Needle.jpg Spiritual Counseling - Offering encouragement and mutuality, wherever you are on your journey. You may be in the process of recovering from the strictures of childhood religious indoctrination, or perhaps you feel spiritually alienated, but have inklings that there is more to discover. Some of you may have had breathtaking, mind-opening, transformative experiences, but don’t have other people in your life who share those kinds of breakthroughs. And many of you may be quite accelerated in your spiritual growth, but could use some help learning how to successfully navigate at a high velocity. Wherever you currently find yourself, it would be an honor to help you discover your own distinctive path forward, and help you more deeply trust your own intuitive abilities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/612db8e501068e16179a6474/cccaf950-f822-4631-b142-8f949fa7fe1c/Dustin+Kerrone+Indian+Flat.jpg Spiritual Counseling - Taking the next step. I offer the themes above as initial suggestions that can hopefully be held lightly and played with to see how they fit for you. Of course, there are so many additional concepts and practices that may be useful for spiritual expansion. It would be an honor to connect with you about ways that I might support your own distinctive adventure in all its ecstasy and grace. If some of what I’ve offered here resonates with you, I invite you to call or text me at (323) 309-5350, or email at dkerrone@gmail.com. My spiritual counseling services are available anywhere in the world that has internet or phone access. We can begin with a 20-minute video consultation, free of charge. I very much look forward to the possibility of working with you in the service of more consciousness, love, joy, and freedom. https://www.dustinkerrone.com/our-approach daily 0.75 2025-05-08 https://www.dustinkerrone.com/get-started daily 0.75 2025-05-08