The journey of the inner sage:
Everything you have been through is present in this moment as wisdom
Inner Sage Psychotherapy & Consulting focuses on the practice of psychological wellbeing.
Our Mission
Inner Sage Psychotherapy exists to cultivate clarity, emotional depth, and relational responsibility.
We believe that therapy is not simply symptom reduction but the development of awareness, integration, and a grounded sense of self.
We choose to focus on a Whole Human Orientation, the WHO of your life. We believe that living a healthy human life means adapting and growing each day, integrating our experiences as we live so that we can respond powerfully to life's challenges in the ways that we would like.
Respecting and using a combination of wisdom traditions and evidence-based effective science, we believe that leading with core principles from counseling psychology, positive psychology, and relational approaches, we can help clients, family members, organizations and communities see and value their successes, value their lived experiences, and promote paths where healing and growth strengthen the same journey, like roots and branches.
What is Counseling Psychology?
Counseling Psychology is often more broad than clinical psychology, including things like career and wholistic views of people. Clinical psychologists often study psychopathology in a medical model that see mental illness as something abnormal, as something to be fixed. In a counseling psychology perspective, we see difficulties as naturally occurring, as a result of what we’ve been through in life. This can range from prenatal illness or early life trauma to the normal difficulties of living in a world that is not well organized to meet our basic needs, based on identity, culture, gender or various other experiences. Rather than becoming an expert in how to recognize your problems and respond by fixing them, you will understand how things came to be, be able to release your attention where needed, and focus your energy on what you’re growing in your life. The APA Division 17 of counseling psychology includes all practitioners of mental health, and our clinicians may not all be psychologists but embrace this philosophy under that umbrella.
Sometimes it’s about looking in a different way.
Dr. Duane Khan
Licensed Psychologist | Founder
Dr. Khan founded Inner Sage after more than two decades of clinical work across private practice, addiction and trauma treatment and recovery, and college counseling settings. His work integrates attachment theory, neuroplasticity, relational therapy, positive and contemplative psychology.
Inner Sage reflects his vision of a practice that is both clinically rigorous and deeply human.
“It’s not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it’s not possible to find it elsewhere.”
- Agnes Repplier