I’m Gary Robertson. My expertise is in the healing arts. I am not a psychiatrist, psychologist, medical doctor or other kind of certified expert with degrees and credentials designed to convince you that I know what I’m talking about.

Rather, I am a pastoral counselor and director of Springs Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a mission to discover, develop and deliver healing methods based in Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine. I do have certifications in Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, Bioenergetics, Reiki, Touch for Health and MFT (Morphogenic Field Therapy), a form of hands on healing as taught by a master clairvoyant healer, Helena Messenger. Oh, and I did work in the mental health field for about 10 years in private practice, and a residential child care facility.

Now I design programs and processes to enhance your life experience and resolve the unresolveable. My special expertise is to quickly identify and eliminate major core patterns in the lives of clients that elude traditional therapies.

This pursuit of transformational techniques that are effective eventually led to a model I took to calling Growing Bones. It transcends traditional psychotherapy, including our physical makeup and spiritual nature. By addressing who we are as complete beings it becomes possible to heal our complete self.

The name, Growing Bones, derives from a conversation I had with a colleague back in the 1970’s. We were training in a regressive program designed to cure major mental illnesses like schizophrenia. Trainers strongly cautioned against using Gestalt techniques with schizophrenics and I was not clear on their reasons. My colleague, John, offered his understanding that Gestalt techniques provide psychological “meat.” “Schizophrenics lack the bones on which to hang the meat,” he said.

Likewise, must of expert advice, parenting, coaching, and guru programs provide psychological and spiritual “meat” that require the psychological and spiritual “bones” in order to function. Most of us are incapable of deriving  much benefit from these because we lack some of the fundamental structural bones that we would have gotten during our early years, if we had completed the natural progression of assimilating them.

In my work with clients I had been using my developmental training, along with traditional and new techniques from Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine. A colleague on the board of Springs Foundation kept asking me to write down my version of developmental progression and when I finally did, what leaped out at me was the fundamental wisdom of the natural order of incorporating significant personal/spiritual components in the order in which we originally encountered them. The problems that tie us into knots originate from attempting to do advanced skills while lacking some of the foundational components. Like trying:

• to do quadratic equations without basic skills with adding and subtracting.
• to walk without complete leg bones.
• to figure things out mentally before our thinker has been fully turned on.

So I designed a sequential model along the lines of our original development to recapture missing components, then formed a pilot group of clients willing to undertake the program.

Results were phenomenal! Even better than our expectation that the process would resolve most of the major reasons we seek advice, assistance and therapeutic help from others, whether it be family, friends or professionals.

The model is written up in the book, Do I Hafta Grow UP?, which has two versions. The Author’s Signature Edition contains the full explanation of the model, along with case examples and histories. Although not a technical manual by any stretch of the imagination, some readers thought that it has too much information to ingest, so I edited out about half of the material in what is called the Standard Edition. Either one has enough of the model for readers to be able to:

• Understand what we are doing
• Why we do what we do (like make the same mistakes over and over)
• Where we need to go to find the particular answers we need at the place we are
• Why generic approaches and one-size-fits-all models are so enticing but don’t work very well

(P.S.My personal goal in writing this material is two-fold:

1. To provide a natural, organic model for understanding what we are doing with our lives instead (or including) what we came into this lifetime to do. One that makes more sense, has fundamental practicality, and produces healing on its own.
2. To help identify what constitutes grownupness so we all know who the real grownups are. And PUT THE GROWNUPS IN CHARGE! Instead of continuing to have the worst behaving kids among us running things.

[Home] [The Book] [The Author] [Why Buy?] [Reviews] [Self Tests] [Articles]