About Us:
Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW

Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, is a Founding Director of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care and the Buddhist Psychotherapy Collective. He is on the clinical staff of the Psychotherapy & Spirituality Institute and where he has his Faculty Practice where he sees individuals, couples, and groups. Koshin works as a chaplain at Cabrini Medical Center & Hospice. Since 2002, he has led the weekly meditation practice at Beth Israel’s Continuum Center for Health & Healing. Koshin began Zen practice in 1988, and he continues to be a student and novice Zen Buddhist priest under Roshi Enkyo O’Hara, at the Village Zendo. He teaches workshops on meditation, grief and loss, and addiction and spirituality in a variety of settings from public school classrooms to corporations.

His expertise is in the following areas:

• Helping clients find true courage in the midst of the difficulties in everyday life
• Companioning clients with the psychological issues of wellness & illness, grief & loss, childhood & adult trauma, anxiety & depression
• Guiding clients in the integration of spirituality & sexuality
• Working with clients to rediscover their vitality & creativity
• Assisting couples to reconnect in order to resolve difficulties in a constructive & inclusive way
• Exploring unconscious material through dream work and Sandplay

Psychotherapy & Spirituality Institute is accredited by the
American Association of Pastoral Counselors.

Administrative offices located at:
74 Trinity Place, Suite 612
New York, NY 10006
(212) 285-0043
info@mindspirit.org

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