SIMPLY AWAKE
Find Healing and Peace
with Jon Labman, Licensed Professional Counselor
When you can’t cope with life’s problems on your own, that’s a good sign that it’s time to see a therapist. For 26 years, I’ve helped people find the peace and happiness they want. It’s not complicated to find and remove the obstacles in the way.
Usually, we have an unconscious view of life that we develop as kids. We think that all of life will follow the rules that were laid down in our families. In addition, we’re not really taught how to deal with our thoughts and emotions. Often, we’re taught that emotions are the enemy and should be hidden at all costs. We’re also taught that our thoughts are true, simply because they’re ours.
I teach simple tools to help you learn how to deal with your own thoughts and emotions. I help you uncover your unconscious beliefs about how you, others, and life are supposed to be, and to correct them to match reality as it is.
I work with your whole sense of how to be human and teach you how to take care of yourself. If you’re interested in developing your spirituality, I can also help you with that. I’ve walked a contemplative path for over 50 years.
A free 15-minute phone call is available with me and the number is in RED at the top of this page. If you’d prefer to do a full, paid, introductory session, choose the “Book Now” tab above.
I have a sliding scale for private pay clients, and also accept Medicare (though NOT Medicaid), Aetna, Meritain, and CoreSource/Luminaire insurances.
My books are available on Amazon.com. The most recent, published in August 2026 is The Missing Manual for Being Human and Getting Enlightened.
You’ve worked hard to get here.
You followed the cultural “prescription” for happiness.
You have a beautiful home, a career, a family, and close friends; and now you think ‘so what?’ Or, you can’t get all of those things and you think, ‘I must be a failure.’ However, the script you were given isn’t yours. Not only that, but whether you’ve succeeded or failed at someone else’s idea of happiness, it’s still theirs, not yours.
Because you haven’t examined the assumptions about how life should be, you’re not peaceful, happy or comfortable in your own body. You’re stressed, confused, anxious, and overwhelmed by thoughts and feelings you don’t understand and that makes it hard to be here! Even the ‘escapes’ like phone scrolling and media are now an obvious sales tool and waste of time. You miss meaningful human contact.
Your life has lost its meaning and satisfaction because you don’t understand how YOU work and what your OWN truth is. You have occasional experiences of peace and stability, but don’t know how to stay that way.
You can solve these problems with a path of healing and psychological integration. As you get your psychological issues “sorted,” you will learn to express your individuality and if interested, explore your unique spiritual path.
Life feels incomplete or just not ‘right.’
Work doesn’t feel satisfying anymore. Your emotional life is messy and you’ve become overly reactive without understanding why.
You feel incomplete and know there’s more to you than this, but you don’t know how to find it.
You are overwhelmed with conflicting thoughts about the past and the future and recognize that the thoughts themselves may be the problem.
You’re trying to make sense of the present moment with thoughts but you can’t; thought is a separation from your present-moment, sense-orientation to Reality. Thought is a great servant, but a terrible master.
Your feelings are equally confusing. You don’t know why you feel the way you do, or what to do with all that feeling. Usually you just repress it, until you explode or panic.
You’ve tried to find a solution on your own.
Talking to loved ones is briefly helpful, but you’re afraid to burden them. Plus, they often turn the conversation to their own problems, and offer the same unhelpful answers you’ve heard before..
It’s difficult to cope with your complex life by adding new thought-based strategies to it; thought is an essential obstruction to psychological ease and the spiritual path.
You went to meditation classes, learned mindfulness techniques, and practiced yoga and deep breathing. However, no one has guided you well, so you don’t know how they’re supposed to work together to make life better.
Working by yourself, you weren’t able to find the deep peace that you intuit is at the Core of you.
You want to change.
Continuing to struggle alone is not an option.
Even though nothing has worked so far, you’re not ready to give up.
When you’re determined to find a way forward, I can help.
Our work together offers you guidance to find your own complete solutions, not someone else’s.
It’s possible to learn to cope with problems in healthier ways. You can ‘make friends’ with your emotions and physical sensations, not to mention your thoughts!
A life of deep-seated awareness that includes: contentment, curiosity, creativity, abundance, love, peace, ease, and freedom can be discovered, hiding underneath your thoughts.
It takes a regular time commitment (weekly or twice monthly), financial investment, and courage, but you can live a better life. You can transform into the unique person that you really are instead of following someone else’s road map.
To “put your toe in the water” and get a feel for my work:
- listen to some podcasts at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3rtymGxmstKLU7RQ1XscVz,
- buy my latest book on Amazon: The Missing Manual for Being Human and Getting Enlightened. It has every major principle I’ve learned and taught in these last 26 years.
I offer one-on-one individual sessions in my office or on Zoom. I am licensed and credentialed as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania, and work with people in my Pennsylvania office as a coach, mentor, or therapist.
I do coaching and spiritual mentoring for people in other states and internationally. I welcome international clients from their own countries, or who are transplants to the United States.
You can book an initial, paid consultation, with no commitment to continue if you’re not satisfied that we’ll make a good team.
Hi, I’m Jonathan.
For 26 years, I’ve helped people find the answers they’ve been searching for.
Together, we’ll create a step-by-step path to awareness of thoughts, feelings, sensations, the present moment and, if you’re interested, your spirituality.
You’ll learn how to vet your thoughts for truth and accuracy and identify the subconscious beliefs holding you back. Using mindfulness techniques, you’ll develop the ability to live more presently in the moment where ALL satisfaction is found. And meditation and mindfulness practices can help you find greater self-compassion, acceptance and the deepest core of what you are.
No matter what you’ve experienced in the past, psychological healing, integration, authentic expression, and peace can be in your future.
Book a one-hour paid introductory session with me now, and let’s take the first step on this healing journey together. People have been referring their family members, friends and colleagues for 26 years. It’s your turn to learn to sing your own song.
Recent Blogposts can be found at jonathanlabman.substack.com in my former Substack Column called “Simply Awake.”
Commitment is Needed for Healing & Awakening
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Questions on the Path #3: Answer to the Biggest Obstacles in Spiritual Practice
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QUESTIONS ON THE “PATH” #2: Why does it seem like some people take your energy and some don’t?
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