Robert Chodo Campbell, is a Founding Director of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. He works as a consultant with couples groups and individuals. He integrates his psychoanalytic training with his Buddhist practice to create a place of safety, compassion, clarity and spaciousness in which the healing process can arise. Chodo brings his life experience and many years of study to his work in the areas of: anxiety and depression, drug and alcohol abuse, recovery from sexual abuse and trauma. In his private practice he uses a psycho-spiritual approach to healing emotional, mental and spiritual concerns. He began formal Zen training in 1994 and currently he is a Buddhist Chaplain Priest with Village Zendo in New York City. He is committed to helping people develop their own transformational tools for coping with emotional suffering, to be fully engaged in their lives and in healthy relationships.

His expertise is in the following areas:

• Helping clients recognize the habitual patterns that fuel and perpetuate difficulty in their lives.
• Exploring the journey of recovery, from alcohol abuse, drug addiction and other forms of addictive, and compulsive behavior
• Facilitating the healing of sexual, physical or emotional abuse and trauma
• Counseling people living with HIV/AIDS, living with a chronic or terminal illness
• Guiding clients in their exploration of anxiety, depression, grief and loss
• Leading mindfulness and guided meditation practice for individuals and groups