Buddhist Psychotherapist · Contemplative Practitioner · Spiritual Guide
A depth-oriented guide whose work integrates Buddhist psychology and contemplative practice with modern psychotherapy — supporting healing across five continents.
View Full ProfileDavid Starlyte is a Buddhist psychotherapist and contemplative practitioner with extensive training in trauma, attachment, and depth-oriented psychotherapy. A spiritual guide and healer with experience spanning five continents, his work brings together Buddhist psychology and contemplative practice with modern psychotherapeutic approaches.
His practice supports healing and transformation at the psychological, relational, and existential levels — not as symptom management, but as a return to what lies beneath our defended sense of self. It is this same depth he brings to retreat: the slow, careful work of being interrupted, and then changed.
"You don't need a holiday. You need to be interrupted."David Starlyte
Before Cambodia, there was Bhutan — the climb to Paro Taktsang, the monastery clinging to a cliff face three thousand feet above the valley floor. David travelled there not as a tourist, but as a practitioner: to walk the oldest kind of journey there is.
This is the first of a two-part story. What Bhutan gave him — and what he carries next to the sacred landscape of Angkor Grace, Siem Reap.
Read the reflection →A series on how identity is built, defended, and healed. Reprinted with permission.
Why anxiety, depression, and addiction may be less about pathology and more about defended identity — the adaptive strategies that once kept us safe.
Read the article →How the need for connection shapes identity, attachment, and healing — revealing belonging as a core human need, not a luxury.
Read the article →How what didn't happen in childhood still shaped you — and why absence leaves as deep a mark as harm.
Read the article →I always receive something to think about, and I can relate with what David shares. His weekly sessions have become part of my practice.Stuart · Discovery Call
I am grateful for the support I received through David's counselling. The care provided was compassionate and thoughtful.Judy · Depth Session
David joins Soul Adventure at Angkor Grace, Siem Reap — bringing contemplative depth to the sacred landscape of Cambodia. Stay close as the story unfolds.
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