Simon Spire MA, MSW, LCSW

I specialize in helping people recover from Air Hunger, Breathing Pattern Disorder, anxiety-related breathing issues, and difficulty getting a full or satisfying breath. Having suffered with severe breathing issues myself from 2000 - 2004, I understand the distress and lack of helpful resources that people experience when struggling with these conditions.

I specialize in helping people recover from Air Hunger, Breathing Pattern Disorder, anxiety-related breathing issues, and difficulty getting a full or satisfying breath. Having suffered with severe breathing issues myself from 2000 - 2004, I understand the distress and lack of resources that people experience with these conditions. My mission is to raise awareness and provide solutions, which I do through two avenues: as a psychotherapist and as founder of the Air Hunger Help Community.

I bring to my work over 20 years of studying and living a soulcentric, contemplative path throughout the trajectory of my adult career and over 10 years of working with individuals and groups in counseling and facilitation roles. I've been a dedicated student and practitioner of meditation and contemplative practices for over 20 years and have studied with profound spiritual and soul-oriented teachers and teachings from a variety of traditions.

I have extensive experience in helping people transform the deep conditioning, trauma, or habitual limitations that can result in depression. I see the experience of depression as a potentially transformative and initiatory passage into a deeper, fuller, and more open experience of one's potential and of life.

I specialize in helping people recover from Air Hunger, Breathing Pattern Disorder, anxiety-related breathing issues, and difficulty getting a full or satisfying breath. Having suffered with severe breathing issues myself from 2000 - 2004, I understand the distress and lack of resources that people experience with these conditions. My mission is to raise awareness and provide solutions, which I do through two avenues: as a psychotherapist and as founder of the Air Hunger Help Community.

I've trained in IFS (Internal Family Systems) and have incorporated it into my practice depending on the client's desire and fit with this approach. I've also trained in Focusing-Oriented Therapy, an approach developed by philosopher Eugene Gendlin over 50 years ago, that is closely related to IFS but that I find potentially more organic, fluid, and evolutionary than the more structured approach of IFS. I naturally incorporate and integrate both of these modalities depending on the situation.

I've trained in eco-depth therapy with Bill Plotkin and Animas Valley Institute as well as with Purpose Guides Institute. I've also studied depth psychology at Columbia University, with a Jungian supervisor, and for many years as a deep interest of mine. Dream exploration and dream analysis can be a very productive part of working with a client. I describe my overall approach as depth-oriented, contemplative, and somatic psychotherapy.

I've been a dedicated student and practitioner of meditation and contemplative practices for over 20 years. My training as a Focusing-Oriented Therapist — a somatic and mindfulness-based approach to psychotherapy developed by philosopher Eugene Gendlin — represents another facet of my contemplative approach to psychotherapy. I describe my overall approach as depth-oriented, contemplative, and somatic psychotherapy.