I help you to better understand how you wish to life based on universal needs that are attuned to your personal core values.
Psychotherapy | Deep Ecology Research | Therapy-Education-Creative Program Design and Direction | Meditation-Yoga-Art-Dance Training | Mindfulness in work & DEI Consultancy | Mentoring | Supervision I have spent a lifetime undertaking research and supporting, the creative, therapeutic and philosophical development of others
I works as:
Integrative Psychotherapist
Academic Researcher
Designer and Leader of Therapeutic, Educational and Creative Programs
Mentor
Supervisor
Teacher Trainer of Meditation, Yoga, Art, and Dance-Theatre
In all my work, I help you to live or have the intention to live your truth moment by moment. From the ancient Indian epic drama and teaching, "The Bhagavad Gita" - this is understood as your very personal "Dharma", your sacred vocation. When we are anchored in such a Dharma, and cultivate the intention of bringing more profound caring and care to our bodies and our daily life, more an more we experience
"The Delicious Delight of Living". My therapy integrates Art, Dance, Theatre, Creative Writing, Sound, Yoga, Meditation, Ecotherapy, Play Therapy, Buddhist Psychology and other Transpersonal Psychology. My meditation and yoga work focusses on Mindfulness (sati), Befriending (metta) and and Compassion (karuna) focused practices and the cultivation of our inter-relationship with all things (pratityasamudpada.) Furthermore I bring meditation to dance to art to ecology to play to connection with the Ocean. Here I am particularly inspired by Zen practice in Japan. Here creative activity is a meditation; and daily life acitivities can be both meditation and art. Here daily life becomes:
"The Delicious Delight of Living".
16/11/2025
Delightful moment in my daily life
Wild Flowers by water
Holina Healing center, Khao Yai, Thailand
Savoring of what is around us is evidenced to support wellbeing.
It can enable us to have a greater existential sense of our relational being
Image by Raphael Jay Adjani
12/11/2025
Delightful moment in my daily life
Trees as sun rises
Holina Healing center, Khao Yai, Thailand
Savoring of what is around us is evidenced to support wellbeing.
It can enable us to have a greater existential sense of our relational being
Image by Raphael Jay Adjani
11/11/2025
A Delightful moment in my daily life
24/10/2025
WATER THERAPY with Raphael Jay Adjani
Raphael’s water therapy helps you discover your childlike playful self, more fully be, and live harmonious, fulfilling lives.
Taking place in the ocean, pool or lake
Raphael takes you on an immersive creative and healing journey.
It is a journey of mindfulness, self-compassion, yoga, creative movement and ecological processes.
While we cannot stop the waves of life’s challenges, we can learn to surf and dance those waves
Image by Raphael Jay Adjani and Wilaiwan Phimkhaleee
26/07/2025
a life in the day of a psychotherapist:
reflecting on this with client
it applies to the psychotherapist in the ecological field of therapeutic presence
13/07/2025
Satyagraha:
Peaceful protest
Towards
Truth and Freedom
12/07/2025
12/07/2025
a life in the day of a humble psychotherapist
I am delighted to have begun a new, exciting role as a psychotherapist and educator at:
The Dawn
addiction and mental health recovery clinic
Chiang Mai, northern Thailand
It is a space where my original synthesis of ecological, existential, mindfulness compassion, art dance and play therapies can flourish.
The Dawn is Asia’s only CARF-accredited rehab, holding a 3-year CARF accreditation, the highest level possible.
My work at the Dawn complements my private practice as a therapist, and teaching for the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion (USA).
I offer deep gratitude and appreciation to my mentors and supervisors, in different aspects of my work as a therapist and researcher, for their ongoing support that enables my work to take place at the highest possible level:-
Professor Toshio Watanabe
Richard Miller,
Dr Erik van den Brink
Claire Kelly
Dr Anna Friis
Image by Raphael Adjani
07/07/2025
I am delighted to have begun a new, exciting role as a psychotherapist and educator at:
The Dawn
addiction, mental health recovery and wellness clinic
Chiang Mai, northern Thailand
The Dawn is a space where my original synthesis of ecological, existential, mindfulness compassion, art dance and play therapies can flourish.
The Dawn is Asia’s only CARF-accredited rehab, holding a 3-year CARF accreditation, the highest level possible.
CARF is a top-tier accreditation from the United States, only awarded to rehabs with the highest levels of treatment.
CARF ensures:
- International standards of care & safety
- Evidence-based treatment methods
- Person-centred approach & trauma-informed care
I truly value the cutting edge therapeutic approach of The Dawn, led by CEO Ohm Athisin Poolsawadi and Clinical Director Helen Wells.
This utilizes the latest evidenced based developments in science and technology to offer a rigorous biopsychosocial model of therapy.
As psychotherapist and psychoeductor, I am:
- Working with people who have multiple conditions including PTSD, addictive personalities, personality disorders
- Designing and leading new psychoeducation programs such as Managing Insomnia and Better Sleep, Family Relations, and Enhanced Personal Communication and Agency
- Leading process and focus groups
- Undertaking Art and other creative therapies
- Enhancing the existing mindfulness and compassion components of the program
- Contributing a greater ecological and water therapeutic approach
- Supporting the overall team deliver the highest quality therapeutic treatment.
My work at the Dawn complements my private practice as a therapist, and teaching for the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion (USA).
I offer deep gratitude and appreciation to my mentors and supervisors, in different aspects of my work as a therapist and researcher, for their ongoing support that enables my work to take place at the highest possible level:-
Professor Toshio Watanabe
Richard Miller
Dr Erik van den Brink
Claire Kelly
Dr Anna Friis
Image by Raphael Adjani
Ohm Athisin Poolsawaddi Helen Wells Erik van den Brink, MD Claire Kelly, Dr Anna Friis
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Welcome to my Therapy, Coaching, Mindfulness and Wellbeing page.
Focusing on Life Development, Life Transformation and Life Recovery: I support You to Live the Richest, Most Satisfying and Creative Life possible.
This page deals with my work and interests as a Psychotherapist; Coach; Mindfulness and Compassion based Meditation Teacher, Stress Management Facilitator, Facilitator of Play and Playfulness in adults, Teacher of Art and other forms of creativity.
This activity has involved over 30 years of practice, as a teacher and mentor, nurturing the talents of others, and meditator. It draws on all my life experiences.
I offer one-to-one sessions in psychotherapy, coaching and teaching Mindfulness and Compassion based meditative practices.
I also offer, alongside co-teachers, a range of courses, including:
Mindful Self-Compassion
Radical caring
Mindfulness, Art and Creative Movement
The Playful Being
Stress Relief in under 10 Minutes
Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction
Mindfulness for Stress
Mindfulness for Health
These can be booked by individuals as one to one sessions and by organisations for their staff or members
For more details of my activity and the different ways I can work with you, as well as well as my rates please check out my website: