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"You can transcend outdated beliefs, self-images and behaviors by deprogramming the conditionings of your past.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 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 can help you to reboot your brain so you can experience silence of mind, gain objective awareness, and deprogram beliefs and behaviors that sabotage how you would prefer to be.
When you realize that your own thoughts affect how you feel, and thus, how you behave, you recognize that much of the time, your own thinking is the primary source of your suffering.
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 why you got into those patterns in the first place.
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.
I work with
- well-adjusted people who feel “stuck” in some way
- people who drive themselves too hard
- 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
- people who want to live a higher quality of life with less conflict
- people who have recently had a diagnosis or are transitioning into the death process
- people in the midst of divorce, career change, or pregnancy
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 an 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.
Where did the concepts of Untherapy and Wellness Counseling originate?
Both were originated by Sunny Massad. "While writing my Master's thesis on "The Psychology of the Buddhas," and my Ph.D. dissertation on "enlightenment, " I realized that the "ordinary" mind could tap into higher levels of consciousness and undergo personal transformations despite personal stories and past conditionings. My 35-years as a meditator and 25 years as a hypnotherapist contributed to my understanding of how people tend to repeat patterns in an unconscious manner. My life work is focused on liberating personal suffering.
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.
Additionally, there is the time factor. Clinical psychologists ordinarily provide 45 to 50 minute sessions 12 times a year to a client through the use of health insurance. My sessions run 75-minutes, I do not prescribe medication, and yet clients experience tangible results in one to 5 sessions, depending on the severity of their patterns.
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