Roland Evans, Psychotherapy and Counseling

01/24/2024

Insights and Offerings -

I live high in the Rocky Mountains surrounded by Ponderosa pines with an east view over Boulder to the Colorado plains beyond. Each morning as dawn brightens, I exit the back door and call out, “Hello Bunnies!” My eyes slowly adjust until I pick out one or two (never more) small mountain cotton...

12/16/2023

Insights and Offerings -

It was dusk when I arrived at the Conner’s house and rang the bell. Oriana led me into the living room and told me Raymond and two other men were in the basement preparing for the opening. She offered me a Subud leaflet; I tried to read but the words slipped away. I struggled to relax and clear ...

09/27/2023

Insights and Offerings -

The night ferry sailed to Dublin from Holyhead and I landed once again at the boys hostel on Lord Edward Street. There was no welcome just as there’d been no farewell. My bedroom was familiar, my roommates distant and the big green-baize table in the billiard table stood waiting for me to push the...

05/21/2023

Insights and Offerings -

Living in Whitchurch Road was like trekking through sticky mud again: one foot down, feel it sucked into the depths and then fight to pull the other foot out of the gluey mess. Cardiff was the same dreary city, full of dreary people. In the house, family members had shifted places—Dilly gone to Lo...

11/12/2022

Insights and Offerings -

I grabbed my heavy duffle bag, shuffled along the narrow aisle with the other passengers and stepped off the bus into a crowd. I was starving and needed to p*e badly. Everyone pushed and shoved; no one smiled or made eye contact. Half a day ago I’d packed my bag in the caravan and now, here I was,...

11/04/2022

Insights and Offerings -

On September 28th 2022, I finally took the Oath of Allegiance and became a US citizen. For most immigrants that is a blessing and relief from the uncertain status of carrying a ‘green card’. Having lived in the US for over 30 years, it was for me a decidedly problematic experience. [Read mor...

09/06/2022

Insights and Offerings 8 -

Orianne and I set off before dawn for the hospital. Check in was at 5.30 am for a 7.30 operation to remove a large cyst from the left side of my head. I’d had it since I was a baby but it had grown over the years and started pressing on my eye. Now was the time to deal with it.

03/31/2022

Insights and Offerings 7 -

The terrible devastation in Ukraine disturbs me at a very deep level. It closely resembles the launch of World War II when Hi**er invaded Poland. That war is personal for me; it traumatized and damaged both my parents and as a consequence, created untold disturbance in my family.

02/16/2022

Insights and Offerings 6 -

This is the second of a two-part article on dreamwork using the metaphor of fishing. We have caught our dream-fish and held it tight so it does not slip through the fingers of our mind. Now comes the really interesting part: How to prepare and cook our dream so that it provides nourishment for our h...

01/04/2022

Insights and Offerings 5 -

This is the first of a two-part article on how to work with dreams. Tongue-in-cheek, I explore different aspects of dreamwork using the metaphor of fish and fishing. In this section, I deal with how we catch, hold on to and recognize different kinds of dreams. A second article will address how to pr...

10/12/2021

Individuation Intensive -