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PSI Institute

Phone +64 (021) 657 2106 

E-mail: jlightstone-at-gmail.com

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PSI Institute

254 Lincoln Road

Henderson

Waitakere City

West Auckland

New Zealand 

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+64 (021) 657 2106

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Counselling and Psychotherapy Using PsychoSomatic Integration (PSI^TM )

Individuals                                                     and                                      Couples and Families

                is especially designed to help you overcome:

• Eating and body image problems
• Blocks to assertiveness  
• Compulsions and behavioural "addictions"
•     Anxiety, panic, nightmares
•     sleep disturbances
• psychologically based physical symptoms
• and it is specifically designed to address the long-term effects of severe stress and trauma on the mind, body, emotions, and soul/spirit

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, PSI^TM addresses issues of perceived safety and trust first, and teaches self awareness and self modulation of physical activation levels throughout the work.

PSI^TM 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 (PSI^TM)

         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.

PSI is unique in that it combines a variety of approaches to integrating the effects of trauma, neglect, abandonment, and/or attachment/relationship issues. The goal is for each person to meld the following with their individual philosophy and approach to healing:

1.    Bodily mindfulness therapies

2.    Attachment repair

3.    Ego state work

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.

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