Paul DeBlassie III, Ph.D.

Depth Psychotherapy Devoted To Insight, Growth, and Dream Work

505-401-2388

I specialize in depth psychotherapy, treating the unconscious mind via emotional processing and dreamwork. Dreams and emotions are royal roads to the unconscious mind. Our growth-oriented consultations unravel the hidden meanings within your dreams and feelings. We tap into practical insight that can help illuminate your path in life. Dreams, in particular, are soul messengers. They carry profound wisdom that, once understood, becomes a powerful tool for facing inner truths and generating practical change.

During an initial session, we explore whether personal consultation and dream work may help reveal blind spots, provide clarity, and restore your footing in life. With over forty years of intensive psychotherapy practice, I work toward helping each patient experience a focused collaboration that furthers mental clarity and emotional relief.

If you are in a psychological crisis, my practice is currently at capacity. In such cases, consult your primary care physician or call the National Hotline - 988. While my practice is unavailable for crisis care, I may have periodic openings for growth-oriented consultations and dream work. Please feel free to call and inquire.

Professional Affiliations: Depth Psychology Alliance, the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, the International Association for Jungian Studies, and the International Association for the Study of Dreams.

All consultations are conducted via teletherapy.

Session Fee: $250

A Radical and Evolving Openness

October 13, 2021  /  Paul DeBlassie III

A hallmark of psychological health is openness, a radical and evolving openness. It’s ongoing. There’s no stopping it. But, if we’re uptight and rigid, we want to stop and quit the growing process. Then things go south.

We’re stuck and unhappy, and then insight may come to us that it just might be time to let go and grow. A patient shared a dream of being cornered, stuck. There was no way out. Fright gripped him to his core. As we talked about the dream, it dawned on him that he was just where he needed to be. It slowed him down, so he’d stop, reflect, and listen to what life was saying.

In his case, life had been a series of ups and downs, unceasing twists and turns. They wouldn’t stop. There was no way out. The dream said he was cornered, meaning he needed to stay put and let things play out. Not sure he could trust the wisdom of the dream, he consulted the I Ching, a divinatory book of change. The reading said all things were as they were destined to be. He returned for his next session more willing to be open to higher wisdom and trust.

I remember sitting in our session realizing that it can take cornering us to open us. We’re fenced in by life to help us open up and see, understand what we need to get on in life. Otherwise, we stay stuck, cornered. Life won’t let us off the path of healing and growth.

So, you might say, we’re in it to live it. There’s no out. I think it’s a good thing. My patients, over time, have first-hand experience of the positive effect of always leaning into what life brings. There’s always something vital to learn. As long as we’re open, we’ll see that problems are veiled opportunities to shed an old skin and grow into a new way of living, being, becoming.

I’ll admit this is a radical idea. Mainstream media and thought want us to believe that someone out there has it made. And we too, therefore, can one day have it made. Fact is, we have it made when we’re always making it. It’s the open-ended making of ideas, relationships, inspirations, shifts of perspective.

We’re beings of radical, evolving openness to what is and what we will become. Always being, always becoming—a radical evolving openness. So, thought for the day: a hallmark of psychological health is openness, a radical and evolving openness.

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