Ben Duffy
Contemplative Psychotherapist · Buddhist Philosophy · Depth Psychology · Host · Spiritual Fxckboy Podcast · On The Ascension Podcast
Ben Duffy is a Colorado-based psychotherapist with a master's in Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology from Naropa University. He works upstream of symptom and story, blending IFS and depth psychology with Buddhist philosophy to walk people out of unnecessary suffering and toward existential freedom.
Ben is the brother who turned a dark night of the soul into a whole vocation.
He came up through intergenerational trauma in Rochester, got cracked open by psychedelics at fifteen, then hit the wall of a self-only spiritual path, depression, anxiety, the cage of a self that won’t loosen. A fasting retreat and a mushroom journey pointed him toward service, and he followed it all the way to a master’s at Naropa, hospice and re-entry work, and a practice that holds trauma as living in the body right alongside its intelligence. What moved me most in our conversation was how he names the ceiling: the path that stays all about you eventually hits a wall, and giving is what loosens the bars.
When someone is ready to stop white-knuckling their own healing and meet it with real contemplative depth, Ben is who I’d point them to.
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Psychotherapy & Wholeness Guidance
By consultTrauma-informed 1:1 work for processing long-held pain, grief, and emotional dysregulation, drawing on IFS, Buddhist philosophy, and depth psychology.
Explore ↗The Liberated Path
From $50/moA contemplative community weaving three traditions, psychological healing (IFS), existential liberation (Buddhist philosophy), and soulmaking (depth psychology), into one curriculum with two monthly live sessions.
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Ben's long-form conversations across belief systems and traditions, chasing emancipation from suffering and direct connection with the divine.
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When you feel the resonance, step through to their work, and tell them I sent you.
