Being is good.
Aaron Jensen
Welcome to Radius Psychological. I’m so glad you are here.
My name is Aaron Jensen and I am a Registered Psychologist specializing in anxiety, trauma and chronic pain. I work mainly with adults who feel burdened with unresolved emotions and whose habits of self criticism and/or perfectionism amplify their anxiety, trauma, and chronic pain conditions.
My aim as a psychologist is to help clients learn how to re-tune their nervous systems and experience freedom from unnecessary suffering. I have first hand experience from years of formal meditation practice just how powerful the brain-body connection is for mental health, and have followed that interest to benefit others with training in a variety of therapeutic methods.
On a personal level, I have three priorities in life. The first is my family whom I enjoy spending most of my free time with. The second is my twenty-eight year practice of Tai Chi Chuan which has included teaching for fourteen years. Lastly, I prioritize my work and take great joy in helping clients develop greater satisfaction, peace, and joy in life.
How is mind-body therapy effective?
Mind-body therapy is a way of describing how the interactions between our brain and body produce physical experiences. For instance, have you ever had a dream you were flying? The brain is able to produce the experience of weightlessness, freedom, and exhilaration in the absence of any actual experience of flying.
The same goes for patterns of anxiety, trauma, and chronic pain: the brain has gotten locked into a process of producing experiences like anxiety, fear, and even pain — in fact, the brain has learned to come to expect such experiences in a sort of ‘default mode.’ Mind-body therapy is simply a means of retraining the brain to produce alternative experiences that reduce suffering and amplify human flourishing. It is effective because it directly utilizes the brain’s unique capacity for change. At Radius we use a combination of proven methods — Brainspotting (BSP), pain reprocessing therapy (PRT) and clinical hypnosis — to help you unlearn brain-body processes that have you stuck.
Why the name Radius?
The name Radius came from my years of studying religion and philosophy prior to becoming a psychologist. The term ‘radius’ is a metaphor for perception. It implies a relation between (1) an inner core or centre and (2) an outer periphery, boundary, or limit.
One might even venture that each act of perception can be defined as a sort of radius where an ‘inner’ felt sense coincides with an ‘outer’ world. The term ‘radius’ is a metaphor for our psychological reality, and it is no wonder that one principal cross-cultural symbol of consciousness is that of a circle.
In its broadest sense, therapy is a practice of re-making ones radius — of changing the unworkable relations between centre and periphery into a workable or coherent reality. Therapy is a place where we can learn how to use perception to change perception in a way that qualities like calm, confidence, clarity, and relief can become second nature.