The Institute for Nonduality-Based Therapies (INT) is devoted to advancing the science, practice, and public understanding of nondual awareness as a transformative force in mental health and human flourishing. We bring together contemplative wisdom, modern psychology, and rigorous research to explore how recognizing the non-separation of self and experience can reduce suffering, deepen resilience, and expand human potential.
Grounded in both ancient traditions and contemporary clinical science, INT develops and studies therapeutic methods that help individuals loosen rigid self-boundaries, navigate stress with greater freedom, and access the intrinsic well-being that emerges when awareness recognizes its own nonduality. Our work honors the depth of these traditions while translating them into accessible, ethical, and evidence-informed approaches for today’s world.
INT exists to build a new field of study and practice: Nonduality-Based Therapies. While mindfulness-based interventions introduced attention training into medicine and psychology, nonduality-based approaches extend this work by addressing the root of human distress—the felt sense of being a separate, isolated self struggling against experience.
Our purpose is to:
Develop and refine therapeutic protocols grounded in nondual insight
Support interdisciplinary research on nondual mechanisms of change
Provide training and certification pathways for clinicians
Offer programs and resources to the public that promote self-understanding, stress reduction, and well-being
Create a community of researchers, practitioners, and contemplatives committed to ethical, trauma-sensitive, scientifically responsible application of nondual principles
Nonduality-Based Therapies (NDT) are psychological or behavioral interventions that help individuals recognize the nondual nature of awareness—an experiential absence of rigid self–world separation—and use this recognition as a basis for emotional freedom and psychological transformation.
These therapies combine experiential training in nondual awareness with contemporary clinical frameworks, resulting in approaches that are both deeply transformative and practically grounded.
INT serves as the central hub for defining, researching, and advancing this emerging therapeutic discipline.
INT engages in five interrelated domains:
We design and support scientific studies examining how nondual recognition affects stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, perception, emotion regulation, and quality of life. Our aim is to integrate nondual principles into the evidence base of modern mental health care.
INT develops structured interventions such as Nonduality-Based Stress Reduction (NDSR)—our flagship 8-week program—and additional protocols addressing trauma, burnout, chronic pain, and existential distress.
We train clinicians, therapists, researchers, and educators in applying nondual theory and practice safely and effectively. Our training emphasizes ethical grounding, trauma sensitivity, and skillful facilitation of nondual inquiry.
We offer workshops, retreats, lectures, online courses, and guided practices designed to help individuals access nondual insight in a supportive, grounded, and psychologically informed manner.
INT partners with psychologists, neuroscientists, contemplative scholars, medical professionals, meditation teachers, and community organizations to explore the role of nondual awareness in human thriving.
We envision a future where nondual awareness is recognized as a foundational dimension of psychological health and a transformative force accessible to all. A future where therapists and researchers are equipped to guide others into deeper clarity, compassion, and resilience—not through belief, ideology, or doctrine, but through the direct experience of awareness recognizing itself.
INT aspires to be a global leader in developing this new frontier of mental health—one that integrates the rigor of science, the wisdom of contemplative traditions, and the practical needs of a world in crisis.
INT is the home of Nonduality-Based Stress Reduction (NDSR), an 8-week therapeutic intervention that blends structured training in nondual awareness with contemporary psychological insights. NDSR teaches participants to shift from identification with the conceptual self to recognition of the underlying awareness in which experience unfolds. Early feedback suggests significant potential for reducing stress and enhancing emotional freedom.
NDSR is the first of many nonduality-based protocols to come.
Whether you are a clinician, researcher, contemplative practitioner, or someone seeking a new way of meeting life, the Institute for Nonduality-Based Therapies welcomes you.
Together, we can cultivate a deeper, clearer, more compassionate understanding of the mind—and support the emergence of a new paradigm in mental health grounded in the liberating power of nondual awareness.
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