What is Untherapy
"You can transcend outdated beliefs, self-images and behaviors by deprogramming the conditionings of your past. The only requirement is that you take responsibility to end the cycle of self-imposed suffering."
What is UnTherapy?
UnTherapy celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and provides practical tools to remove the causes of stress, burnout, and self-neglect.
UnTherapy also helps a person reboot their brain so they can silence the mind, gain objective awareness, and then deprogram beliefs and behaviors that sabotage how they really want to live.
When people realize that their own thoughts affect how they feel, and thus, how they behave, they recognize that their own thinking is often the primary source of their suffering. UnTherapy reverses worry and whining by providing solution-oriented problem solving that not only reverses destructive habits, but evokes clarity and a sense of well-being.
UnTherapy promotes self-care and self-compassion because self-improvement is driven by self-judgment. While the central theme of UnTherapy is "transformation through awareness," Martin Seligman's Positive Psychology, which advocates personal responsibility for one's own attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors was also instrumental in the formulation of UnTherapy.
How does UnTherapy work?
UnTherapy differs from orthodox models of psychology in one essential way: the emphasis is on understanding how you can release yourself from self-defeating patterns rather than focusing on how or why you got into those patterns.
UnTherapy begins with one essential premise: it is okay to be you, just as you are, embracing every aspect of yourself, including self-judgment. This acceptance helps people to gain access to the inherent wisdom that dwells beneath the thinking mind. Decision-making can then be based on what a person presently values instead of on fears and conditionings.
UnTherapy proposes that you set an intention about how you wish to be and how you want to live, while simultaneously accepting the conditions of your life just as they are right now. The object is to release anxieties about the future that often come as a result of "efforting," so that you can feel personally fulfilled throughout the life journey regardless of how close or distant life goals might be.
Who is UnTherapy for? 
UnTherapy is ideal for individuals who do not require treatment of diagnosable conditions but desire a boost forward to move beyond old patterns that are holding them back from their personal potential. Despite the seeming contradiction in terms, UnTherapy is geared both toward people who drive themselves too hard and people who do not have enough drive.
UnTherapy was designed to serve healthy and well-adjusted people who feel “stuck” in some way: people who have “tried everything” and can’t seem to stop unwanted behavior patterns; people who want to stop procrastinating and get motivated; people who want to restore a sense of well-being; and people who want to live a higher quality of life with less conflict.
Why now?
People of the 21st century experience techno-stress. Symptoms include but are not limited to:
less meaning,
less patience,
a shorter concentration span,
sleep disturbances,
shallow breathing,
internal and external conflicts,
and apathy that can drive addictions and other emotional imbalances.
Because we learn at a young age to seek validation and security from people and things. UnTherapy teaches people how to access a sense of security and peace of mind regardless of the circumstances of one’s life.
When should someone consider UnTherapy?
When a person knows what they should be doing but can’t get themselves to do it. It doesn’t matter if it’s weight loss or cleaning out the closet. UnTherapy alleviates the fears and discomforts associated with change and provides a practical plan to execute that change comfortably and without drama. It is “an aphrodisiac for restoring authentic happiness.”
Where did the concepts of Untherapy and Wellness Counseling originate?
Both were originated by Sunny Massad. While writing her Master's thesis on "The Psychology of the Buddhas," and her Ph.D. dissertation on "enlightenment, " she realized that the "ordinary" mind could tap into higher levels of consciousness and undergo personal transformations despite personal stories and past conditionings. Her experience as a meditator and as a hypnotherapist contributed to her understanding of how people tend to repeat patterns in an unconscious manner. Her work is dedicated to liberating personal suffering that is unconsciously imposed by the fear- based ego.
Why not just use your health insurance to see a traditional counselor?
While most health insurances will cover psychological services, the intention of such services is to treat conditions that require psychological interventions of diagnosable mental conditions.
More and more people are becoming concerned about privacy issues that relate to having a history of their personal problems, but additionally, there is the time factor. Clinical psychologists ordinarily provide 45 to 50 minute sessions 12 times a year to a client with health insurance. My sessions run 75 minutes and produce visible results in one to 5 sessions, depending on the severity of the patterns.
What is the Wellness Counselor Certification course?
People looking for a career with more meaning are interested in starting a sole proprietorship as a professional wellness counselor so they can make a living helping others find the same personal empowerment they gathered for themselves during the training. Others are interested in learning these wellness counseling skills to enhance the lives of friends, family or co-workers. But everyone that takes it experiences personal transformation. I believe that a person's counseling is only as conscious as the practitioner.
My new book, UnTherapy: A Positive Psychology for Enlightened Living, is a conscious alternative.
Sunny Massad, Ph.D.
Hawaii Wellness Retreat House
3670 Kalihi Street
Honolulu, HI 96819
(808) 848-5544