"Padme listens with compassion, while inviting radical shifts in the thinking that keeps us trapped in our own suffering. Padme offers a unique gift for anyone who is serious about making changes and finding inner freedom through awareness.Sue S., age 59                                                                          

Reality-based Personal Life Consulting

This new relationship with Padme can help you sort through your relationships with your meditation practice, yourself, and other people or situations in everyday life.

Benefits from this work may include (but are certainly not limited to):

While an ongoing personal consulting relationship with Padme may often involve consideration of emotional and psychological issues, it differs from psychotherapy in a number of respects:

Suggestions are made simply from wisdom accumulated from life experience with a profound interest in what's loving, real, and what works. Suggestions are offered with openness about what might or might not be helpful for the person requesting guidance. There's also trust that the person will use what's helpful to them and discard what's not. It is important that both participants understand that any commitment to change can only be made to oneself, and only with ongoing support from Padme as requested.

When longer‐term counseling or psychotherapy appears to be necessary, or the member or client appears to be in immediate physical or psychological danger because of the acuity of a crisis, we would quickly recommend that they seek psychotherapy or other appropriate help and, if possible, aid them in obtaining a referral for such services.

Padme is happy to explore an ongoing relationship with you as a Reality-based Personal Life Consultant.

Meetings may take place in person at A Quieter Place, on the phone, on Facetime, Skype, or on a walk in the park.

*Fee: $50-$75 per session (per hour) suggested Donation. Suggested Donation after our time together is based upon your sense of value, responsibility, and financial situation. All phone and Skype clients use Paypal as Donations through this website.

Contact Padme with any questions and to set up your first appointment.

*If you would like to consider bartering, please let me know. I support a sharing economy. I am happy to explore ways of exchanging our gifts that do not necessarily need to involve the exchange of money. I am particularly interested in receiving massage, someone who might clean my house, walk my dog on occasion when I'm occasionally gone for long periods of time. And you are welcome to ask about any other ideas you have.

Client Comments

Five months has passed since we met. However, Padme’s words and our discussion were truly pivotal in my quest. Tomorrow happens to be another such milestone day, as I await word on moving ahead with something that relates to my inner passion. The past months have been very trying at times, while also amazingly fruitful in other ways that I never imagined. My life will never be the same as a result of all of this.

Padme heightened a new awareness in myself, when a life changing event came upon me at short notice. Her wisdom presented scenarios for me that would have taken me months to conceive by myself. More importantly, however, was that she made me recognize that healing and moving forward on my own terms enabled a freedom that was not present before. As a result, life choices were made by me, and for me.
John P. age 50

Padme is a very knowledgeable, caring and gentle individual. Through Padme’s guidance, I’ve come to realize how powerful our thoughts can be, and how, through clarity and awareness, we can live a much more loving life with ourselves and others.
Jean S. age 43

I can highly recommend Padme as a Healer and Counselor. With her presence, her own life experience and her skills, she helps you see and question your judgments and old stories. She invites you to take a fresh look at yourself, others and your life situation. Her energy work is very healing and gentle, and she beautifully embodies what she is teaching in her own life.
Michele B. age 33

Padme Livingstone is a force for good in my life. She has taught me how to recognize the "stories" I have told myself in the face of emotionally charged issues, and to pursue new, less judgmental ways of thinking. Her lessons on meditation were instrumental in reaching this goal. In fact, I have been able to teach Padme's meditation techniques to my young daughter, and they have helped her combat nighttime anxiety. By helping me, Padme actually helped my family. I am indebted to her and appreciate all she is and has done.
Jim C. age 43

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