Bio and Information

Isabeall Logan, PhD, studied Clinical Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria CA, where she focused on Depth Psychology, Jungian-oriented psychotherapy, and dream work. She had a private psychotherapy practice in Cambridge, MA until 2008, when she closed her practice to do intensive long-term meditation retreats.

Isabeall has been practicing meditation in the Insight tradition since 2002. She has practiced with senior teachers in the US, England, and Burma. In 2008 she undertook two consecutive silent meditation retreats, one at the Forest Refuge in Massachusetts and one at Gaia House in England, totaling 13 months. Upon returning to the states, she was encouraged by her primary teacher to begin teaching meditation.

In addition to working with individuals and couples at VTCYT, she teaches meditation and has a private psychotherapy practice in Middlebury, and is inspired by the potential of integrating meditation practice and principles with psychotherapy.

"Psychotherapy can be viewed as a process of getting out of one’s own way. Oddly enough, the most common and persistent way that we get in our own way is trying to avoid what is. Many symptoms are unconscious ways the psyche has devised of avoiding unwanted or feared emotions and thoughts. Psychotherapy, over time, provides a safe “container” in which to explore such resistances and begin to welcome all experience. Meditation asks us to practice open-heartedly allowing whatever is arising in the present moment, whether it is a thought, an emotion, a physical sensation, or a perception. Psychotherapy can become blocked when we don’t have the tools to meet our experience with open awareness. Meditation practice can become blocked when there are psychological issues still unconscious or unresolved. These two practices can complement each other to support creating a life in which one’s happiness is not dependent on circumstances."