Richard Klein

Richard is a therapeutic counsellor specializing in somatic therapy, trauma and couples work. He facilitates men’s and couples retreats and hosts a bi-weekly group counselling evening for men

Richard has completed a two year certification in Relational Somatic Therapy, a body-based form of trauma resolution work. He is presently registered as a therapeutic counsellor with the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of BC. 

Richard has completed a four year course of studies in Hakomi body centered psychotherapy with Hakomi founder Ron Kurtz and master teacher Jon Eisman. He took the mindfulness based stress reduction training with Jon Kabat Zin in 2008. Richard has worked as an aquatic therapist and a life coach. He is the director and founder of Mountain Waters Retreats, a wellness retreat centre near Nelson where he also facilitates programs, including a yearly couples retreat that he teaches with his wife Yogita and senior Hakomi teacher Beth Falch-Neilson.

Often it is during times of greatest challenge that we have the opportunity to grow most as human beings. I believe that as we give voice to our pain within the context of a warm, safe, and validating relational context, we experience being met in a new way and we are freed to move beyond the pain towards growth, healing and wholeness.

My role is to providing you with the counselling support that allows you to move forward with greater self-understanding, increased self-acceptance, and more capacity to consciously choose how you show up in your relationships, at work, and for yourself. 

I will encourage you in the practice of a kind of noticing that I call mindful awareness, where you develop the ability to more clearly observe what is happening inside yourself. Together by deep listening, accessing the wisdom of the body, and by uncovering old self-limiting beliefs, we attend to the unresolved issues from the past that interfere with your ability to live more fully in the present and create the life you wish for yourself.

I have five adult children and six grandchildren. I am passionate about lifelong learning, my permaculture garden, hiking and skiing in the wilderness, and supporting my Nelson community in tangible ways.

Contact:

Tel: 250-509-0553
Email: richard@somatherapies.ca