Presence Psychotherapy Institute
Four Dimensions of Presence
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Presence Psychotherapy: comprehensive relationally-attuned therapy integrating spirituality and Four Dimensions of Presence with Parts Work and the nervous system, leading to psychological healing.
Therapists - Last chance
Learn Presence Psychotherapy on Cortes Island, B.C.
-One of the most beautiful places on earth
28 CE credit hours
Sept 10-15, 2026
Only 6 spots left!
Lion’s Gate Participants
Presence Awareness in Day to Day Life & in Psychotherapy
Presence is energy that is compassionate, receptive, aware, and exists all the time in and around us in many forms and frequencies. The Four Dimensions of Presence are robust resources for processing difficult thoughts and feelings.
What is Presence Psychotherapy?
Presence Psychotherapy, a therapeutic approach developed by Michelle Lepak LCSW and published in the APA Journal of Integrative Psychotherapy, utilizes Presence Awareness— awareness of ever-present, compassionate, and receptive energy—along with the body’s wisdom to process immediate distress and heal past trauma.
Moving beyond traditional talk therapy, it harnesses the client’s moment-to-moment experience across Four Dimensions of Presence (Relational, Spacious, Grounded, and Transcendent) to process complex emotions like grief and rage while easing anxiety, shame, and depression.
Meet Michelle Lepak, LCSW and find out about the tools and offerings at the Presence Psychotherapy Institute.
Why take a Presence Psychotherapy Institute workshop?
Presence Psychotherapy institute workshops provide tools to help with stress, relationship difficulty, low self esteem.
Through videos and handouts, learn how experiencing Four Dimensions of Presence and being in relationship with Parts of the Mind can increase well-being.
How are 4 Dimensions of Presence Helpful in the day to day and in Psychotherapy?
We all process and perceive differently. Everyone seems to easily experience at least one of the Four Dimensions of Presence. Discover your unique way to easily experience and sustain awareness of Presence, and if you are therapist, the way each of your client innately experiences it. Each dimension of Presence provides unique benefits in daily life and during trauma processing. .
Presence Psychotherapy facilitates Memory Reconsolidation.
Presence Orienting prompts help clients have a felt sense of Presence throughout the session and easily utilize this Awareness to process trauma including Fight, Flight, Freeze responses, to heal attachment wounds, heal negative trauma induced beliefs such as ‘I’m not enough’, ‘I’m not loveable’, and to increase well-being.
Four Dimensions of Presence heals Parts of the Mind that hold trauma.
Excerpts from the Evidenced Based Therapist Podcast about Presence Psychotherapy.
Caleb and Bridger of Think Beyond, discuss Presence Psychotherapy: A treatment model for thorough memory reconsolidation.
Presence Psychotherapy is Mindfulness-based and relationally attuned.
Four Frequencies of Presence
We all have an innate resonance with at least one of the Four Frequencies of Presence.
Extraordinary Awareness
The opening of Awareness that can occur in the Presence Psychotherapy’s Presence Orienting process, for some, can be akin to Awareness of connectedness, oneness, colors, and/or ubiquitous love can be experienced through psychedelics without side effects.
Clients who are Spiritual or Religious
The Presence Therapist helps clients who come into therapy with a connection to Spirituality feel safe to have the option to utilize the Resource of their Spirituality in trauma work.
Michelle’s wisdom, warmth and passionate energy creates a beautiful space to learn and experience this intuitive, spiritual and highly effective model.
“As a Psychologist with over 25 years in practice, and a specialization in trauma, I can say that the Presence Psychotherapy training was the best I have ever taken. The model is incredibly intuitive, and Michelle’s experiential teaching style created a setting within which the model was so naturally integrated. I found, and am finding that this model creates profound experiences of integration that I believe surpass other models I have worked with. – Deb Lubetkin, Psy.D
Presence Psychotherapy training offers therapists tools to safely fully access and process implicit traumatic memory
The effect of Trauma has many layers and nuances. Presence Psychotherapy accesses and addresses all the memory networks that hold aspects of the trauma:
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Semantic Memory
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Procedural Memory
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Emotional Memory
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Presence Psychotherapy Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing
Clover Educational Consulting Group is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Clover Educational Consulting Group maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Presence Psychotherapy Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7994. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Presence Psychotherapy Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.