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Auckland PSITM Institute & Youthline Waitakere♦Psychotherapy for the Whole Person ♦ Training and Supervision for Healers ♦
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♦ PSI Institute Phone +64 (021) 657 2106 E-mail: jlightstone-at-gmail.com Relationship and Couples Therapy ♦ PSI Institute 254 Lincoln Road Henderson Waitakere City West Auckland New Zealand ♦ Phone: +64 (021) 657 2106 ♦
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*Attention: For local in-person therapy services in Auckland, New Zealand: please click here.* Counselling and Psychotherapy Using PsychoSomatic Integration (PSITM )
Individuals
and
Couples and
Families is especially designed to help you overcome:
Individual Counselling and Psychotherapy: Are you tired of spending time in therapy analyzing your problems but find you're not able to change them? Do you have lots of "insight" that doesn't seem to help you actually get a handle on your behaviour? When you come in for your first appointment, you may have a lot to say, or you may be so nervous that you don't know what say. Trust is a key issue that may have to be revisited because it is not a static thing - it comes and it goes, and generally has to be earned to be meaningful. We start by exploring and enhancing your strengths and resources. Much of what you need to work on may not be accessible to direct verbal processing. Problems "trapped in the body" do not go away simply by talking. For example, even if you "know" that you are physically safe place, until your body calms down enough to take in new information, you won't be able to make use of this intellectual knowledge because those centers of the brain may be "off-line". For this reason, PSITM addresses issues of perceived safety and trust first, and teaches self awareness and self modulation of physical activation levels throughout the work. PSITM enables you to re-embody yourself, identify and establish personal boundaries, match the right “feed to the right need”, and frees up energy entangled in obsessions and compulsions, or drained by body memories and reenactments. It helps you work with behaviours that feel out of control by helping you reconnect to disowned aspects of self, and develop internal cooperation and shared goals. Online Counseling: If you are an ex-client of mine, and wish to touch base or have a few online (using video over the internet) sessions, you may call my California Skype-in telephone (510) 962-5704 or send me an email at jlightstone-at-gmail.com. Individual online sessions are charged at US$115 per 50 minute session. Longer sessions are pro-rated accordingly. In-person individual sessions (in Auckland New Zealand) are charged at $120 per 50 minute session. Longer sessions are pro-rated accordingly. To make an appointment, call (09) 835-1929 or click here
Individual Counselling Using PsychoSomatic Integration (PSITM)
PSI is an overall theory and approach developed by Judy Lightstone. that is especially helpful in working with problems that tend to dissociate mind from body (e.g., eating and body image problems, anxiety, sleep disturbances, physical symptoms, etc.). PSI approaches psychological trauma treatment by starting at the site of first impact: the body. Psychological trauma causes "bottom up hijacking," whereby any trigger to a remembered traumatic experience can be perceived as a threat to survival and automatically invoke fight/flight impulses that cascade into a form of psychological shutdown. Before any psychotherapeutic intervention can be effective, this cascade must be addressed. PSI does this by integrating bodily mindfulness approaches with ego state work and feminist relational therapy. Ego state work addresses the fragmenting effects of long-term developmental trauma, for those clients with a more chronic trauma history. And because long-term developmental trauma occurs in the context of a relationship, awareness of the therapeutic relationship is seen as the foundation for all other interventions. Relational therapy balances the study of structures or patterns of self experience with the study of persons in interpersonal process.
1. Bodily mindfulness therapies 4. Derivatives of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) such as Lifespan Integration, the DNMS (Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy) and BFF (Best Foot Forward) 5. All within a feminist relational approach
If you are an ex-client of mine, and wish to touch base or have a few online (using video over the internet) sessions, you may call my California Skype-in telephone (510) 962-7505 or send me an email at jlightstone-at-gmail.com. Individual online sessions are charged at US$115 per 50 minute session. Longer sessions are pro-rated accordingly.
For professional consultation and training for psychotherapists in this approach, click here
has been providing individual, group, and couples and family therapy for the past 24 years specializing in eating and body image difficulties, and issues resulting from severe stress and trauma. She received her PhD in Humanities with a specialization in trauma psychology in 2006, and offers counselling services in West Auckland. She has also been providing supervision and training for professional therapists throughout the U.S. since 1986 and in New Zealand since 2006. She trained under Francine Shapiro (Founder of the EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Pat Ogden (founder of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy), and The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute in New York City founded by Susie Orbach (author of Fat is a Feminist Issue and Hunger Strike) and Louise Eichenbaum . She has integrated these approaches to mind and body healing and developed and now uses and teaches PSITM, (PsychoSomatic Integration) a form of therapy that address the whole person Click to learn more about this approach. Clients describe her as gentle and compassionate in a strong way, tempered by an easy sense of humor. PhD, M.S., M.A., NZ Registered Psychologist #90-03237, Internationally Certified EMDR clinician Judy Lightstone, PhD Auckland PSITM Institute and Psychotherapy Offices 254 Lincoln Road, Suite 5, 1st Floor Henderson, West Auckland Office right off the Western Motorway For map and directions click here Phone: (09) 835 1929 email: jlightstone-at-gmail.com
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254 Lincoln Road, Henderson, Waitakere City, West Auckland, New Zealand. E-mail: jlightstone-at-gmail.com Phone +64 (021) 657 2106 [Home] [Individual Psychotherapy] [Relationship Therapy] [Contact Me] [List of Articles] [About Judy]Local Training: [PSI Seminar] [Eating Problems Training] [PSI Practice & Supervision Group]International Training: [Online Course Healing Intractable Eating Problems] [Online Consultation]
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