About

Video Presentations 

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I am a multi-disciplinary healer, consultant and author working in private practice on-line and in collaboration with Sophia Health Institute, Immanence Health, and Opening to Life in Portland, Oregon with a truly exceptional team of therapists, naturopaths, body workers, and shamans.

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I work in a wide variety of ways and with a number of different modalities that include Depth and Developmental Psychology, Archetypal Analysis, Somatic Experiencing, Family Constellation, Integral Theory, Internal Family Systems, Freudian and Jungian psychotherapy, Trans-Personal Hypnotherapy, Trans-Somatic Dialogue and meditation.

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After studying Russian and French at university I began my professional career working for Maestro Valeri Gergiev, conductor and Creative Director of the Mariinsky Theatre in New York and St Petersburg, Russia. Following my tenure I spent three years in meditation retreat in southern France and India. Upon my return to New York I was invited to serve as Executive Director of the Association for Research and Enlightenment otherwise known as the Edgar Cayce Center in mid town Manhattan. Seven years of chronic illness followed during which I began my own private therapeutic practice and joined LionHeart Consulting, a Sufi and Spiritually based Organizational and Leadership Development firm in Portland, Oregon. Once healed, I spent several years serving as the in-house Psycho-Somatic specialist at Sophia Health Institute under the leadership of Dr Dietrich Klinghardt and Dr Christine Schaffner, supporting patients to uncover and heal the psycho emotional, familial and ancestral roots of their chronic and complex health conditions. In 2020 I returned to Portland, Oregon and my personal practice full time.           

 

Working With Me

I work with individuals 1:1 as well as offering practitioner trainings, which you can learn about here,

If you are interested in working with me individually, I will suggest having a brief, introductory call.

If we decide to work together, we will schedule a time to meet and I will invite you to share your story. This will immediately illuminate the archetypal patterns that you are embedded in. For example, the scapegoat, exile, warrior, high priestess and over-giver, all of which possess very specific qualities and dynamics that repeat with startling reliability. Some will support you while others will be maladaptive to a healthy, successful life.

As we identify your patterns, you will be relieved. Some you will already know, but others you will be unconscious of because they have been developed by defense mechanisms that your psyche created as a result of past trauma.

Understanding these defenses mechanisms and upgrading them will play a large part in our work because all defense mechanisms carried from childhood into adulthood not only become maladaptive, but will often re-illicit the very traumas they were designed to defend against.

These can include auto-immune conditions, repeated abandonments, endless conflicts, breakups, false starts and financial instability. They will often loop endlessly over the course of a lifetime until the patterns are safely and securely interrupted and redirected into healthier expressions.

When working I draw from a wide variety of modalities and traditions while also modeling the archetype of Hermes, the messenger. Like Hermes, my opinion will always be less valuable than the messages that I relay to you from your unconscious. Your unconscious is the “god” within, so to speak, tethered to the Divine, that broadcasts its wisdom in symbols, stories, dreams and somatic patterns that I will gather, and then deliver to you. This is by far the greatest depth of therapeutic work that I can offer. Not to tell you what I think, but what your unconscious, your Self, wants you to know.

My work is also hermetically sealed. For Hermes was known to have a box that could never be opened. In this way our work will be confidential and impenetrable, reflecting the archetypal needs of the chrysalis. I will never take a referral from you or work with anyone that you know. To do so would psychically contaminate our container. It would no longer be purely about you. It would not longer be purely for you.

If you would like to explore working together I can be reached here: zachary@zacharyfeder.com

If you’re a practitioner interested in our Trans-Disciplinary Healer Training you can find out more about that here

 

READING LIST

Memoir / (Auto) Biography

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Fiction

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Philosophical & Phenomenological

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Guidance

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Chronic Illness

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On Preparation for Death

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Scholarly Articles

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Archetypal Film / Series

  • The Green Knight (Hero’s Journey)
  • The Fountain (Reincarnation)
  • Cloud Atlas (Same)
  • Inception (Psychological)
  • Snow Piercer (Revolution)
  • Meetings with Remarkable Men (Initiation)
  • The Holy Mountain (Same)
  • The Mission (Redemption)
  • Gattaca
  • Vikings (Hero & Heroine’s Journey)
  • Kubo and the Two Strings
  • The Act of Killing (Real time birth of a conscience)
  • My Dinner with Andre
  • Baraka
  • The Matrix (Awakening from the Consensus Reality)
  • Oblivion (Same)
  • The Game (Same)
  • They Live (Same)

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Archetypally Coherent Stories for Children and Young Adults

  • Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
  • Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carrol
  • The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings, J.R.R Tolkien
  • Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Brothers Grimm
  • Anything by Chris Van Allsburg
  • Watchmen, Alan Moore