Ben Hummell, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor

I work with people who sense there's more to their life than the story they've been living, the ones who've done the conventional therapy, read the books, maybe even built a "successful" life on paper, and still feel a persistent ache that something essential in them has gone unlived. My approach draws on 16 years of clinical practice and training in depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, integrated with a framework I've developed called The Genius Way®, built around the distinction between what I call your Genius Drive (the authentic pull toward your deepest capacities) and your Wound Drive (the patterns that keep you small, safe, and disconnected from that pull). Rather than treating symptoms in isolation, we work at the level of the pattern underneath them. This isn't therapy that stays only in the cognitive or behavioral register. I bring a Jungian and transpersonal lens to the work, meaning we make room for dreams, synchronicity, meaning, and the parts of your experience that don't reduce neatly to diagnosis. If you're someone who thinks in symbols, or who's drawn to frameworks like Human Design, astrology, or the Enneagram as tools for self-understanding, you'll find that language welcome here rather than pathologized. I offer individual depth-oriented psychotherapy via telehealth across California, Oregon, and Washington. My clients tend to be high-functioning, introspective, and quietly done pretending everything's fine when it isn't. If you're ready to stop managing your life and start actually living it, I'd be glad to talk.