High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Contemplative Psychotherapy is a form of therapy started in the west by Trungpa Rinpoche. Like Jung, it uses religion (in this case Buddhism) to help the client ‘accept’ who they are. It criticizes western psychological tendencies to interpret mental pain as pathological. As it concerns the ‘principles of acceptance’ rather than the religious tenets of the Buddhist religion, neither the client nor the therapist needs to be Buddhist to get the benefit from this model.(page 67) "Contemplative psychotherapy simply offers secular and logic-based tools to free us from unnecessary struggles.”