About Me

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My Background

Choosing someone to help you on your journey can be difficult. Here, you can learn more about me, my educational background and my work experience so you can get to know me better before making your decision.

Yosef My name is Yosef de Miranda. I was born in the Netherlands (Holland). When I was five years old my family and I immigrated to Israel. I lived there for about 17 years and then returned to Holland, where I studied, worked and lived for many more years.

In a way I have been a world traveler. I lived for over a year in London, England, and for a year in Boulder, Colorado. I lived for five months in Sedona, Arizona and for about nine months on a fruit farm in Costa Rica. I lived for about half a year in Toronto, and half a year in Vancouver, Canada. I also visited other countries, like France, Switzerland, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. A couple of years ago I left Holland again and returned to the United States. Here I lived for about 18 months in Taos, New Mexico, and now I am living in Southern California.

As you can imagine, I have been exposed to many different ways of living, and many different ways of experiencing and looking at life. This has contributed greatly to my ability to better understand and fully accept all the many different people who come to me for counseling and guidance.

Professional Training and Experience

I acquired my professional theoretical and practical knowledge in Holland, Israel, England and the U. S.

It included: Residential and Psychiatric Social Work, Gestalt Therapy, Humanistic Psychology, Psychodrama, Guidework, E.M.D.R., Film in Education, Youth Welfare, Bio- and Core-energetics, Pathwork (I am a Pathwork Helper), Reiki I and II, and Meditation. I am also an ordained non-denominational Minister.

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Yosef with "his" kids in Holland

I started my career as an educator at a residential treatment center for boys and girls. Later, I worked at two Residential Treatment Centers for adolescent girls. I have worked as a psychotherapist with individual clients, couples, families and groups at a Family Agency, a Psychiatric ward of a general hospital, and at a Mental Health Clinic. I specialized in the treatment of adolescent girls and women of all ages.

For about two years I worked part-time at a Psychiatric Hospital as a psychotherapist. I also spent a year as a non-denominational spiritual counselor with the Dutch Marines. In the United States I worked for several months at a Diagnostic Center for Delinquent Girls in Philadelphia (an unfortunate name) as part of an International Program for youth and social workers.

I love working with so-called Indigo Children and their parents, and with people-who-work-with-people.

From having a Job to Private Practice

I learned much by working within "the system" for quite a few years. But then I reached a point where I felt so constrained and restricted by the way I was supposed to work with my clients that I decided to take what at that time felt like a huge leap of faith.

I resigned from my job and established my own private practice for psychotherapy, workshops and group training – and that was one of the best decisions I have ever made!

Until that time I was expected to see each client for one hour, and as soon as the session ended, it was time to start the next session. That’s how many therapists work – from 9 to 10, from 10 to 11, from 11 to 12 etc. Actually, many of them see their clients – or as they call them, patients – for only 45 or 50 minutes.

The first thing I did was to extend the time of each session from 60 to 90 minutes! I am convinced that this has contributed greatly to the large number of happy and satisfied clients, and the relatively short time that most of them needed with me before they felt ready to go on with their lives without further sessions.

The other change I created was to make sure that I would have at least 30 minutes for myself between each session. That too, has contributed greatly to both the quality of my work and my own wellbeing.

I designed and facilitated numerous weekend, 5-day and 7-day workshops for groups with up to 20 participants.

I trained and supervised social workers, psychologists, nurses, teachers, as well as members of management teams of schools, hospitals, insurance companies, and others.

Guidework

One of the most wonderful, rich and amazing periods in my life started in 1993. A friend named Arianne had a connection with a spirit entity, who she called 'the Guide'. Sometime during that year, the Guide invited me to join 'him' and Arianne in the important work they were developing together - that of guiding, teaching and assisting people for a while on their path in life. I happily accepted the invitation.

With the help and guidance of this exceptionally wise and caring spirit entity Arianne and I founded and led together The Dynamic School for Guidework.

Numerous students have benefitted significantly from this remarkable collaboration of humans and spirit, and the intensive psychological and spiritual training programs, which we offered at our school during the years in which Arianne, I and the Guide worked together.

At some point the Guide indicated that it was time for us to teach the students of the most advanced group to establish their own form of communication with the Guide. It was then that a more direct connection and personal relationship were established between the Guide and me.

"Do not be concerned with the phenomenon of this communication as such….Take into consideration that every human personality has a depth of which he or she may as yet be unaware. At this depth, everybody possesses the means to transcend the narrow confines of his or her own personality and receive access to other realms and to entities endowed with a wider and deeper knowing." From Pathwork Lecture No. 204 "What is the Path?"

Yosef The Guide has helped me many times in my life. Working through and with me, the Guide also helps my clients. I know this may sound amazing, but I encourage you to keep an open mind to see if you too can benefit from the knowledge and intelligence of this spirit entity. If you’d like to learn more, click here to read the text of one of my conversations with the Guide.