Magdalena Bak-Maier, PhD – Self-love: Healing the Heart with Dance
Your eyes stare into mine, yet I feel the door to your soul shut. Your body is cuddled next to mine, wrapped in a blanket. You’re hugging me the way you hug vivid dreams or […]
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Kimberly Lieu – A New Dogma: Alain de Botton on Art as Therapy
“Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.” – Theodore Zeldin Where can people find consolation and meaning in the 21st century? Alain de Botton, co-author of Art as Therapy and a philosopher from the […]
Magdalena Bak-Maier, PhD – Travels into the Subconscious: Using Art to Create Clarity and Restore Well-being
One of my standard practices with clients is to help them make meaning from what’s happening in their lives using visual form. I may take a client to Tate Modern in London or another gallery […]
Dr. Joseph Valks – Do Schizophrenics Live in Parallel Universes?
Schizophrenia comes from the two Greek words that mean ‘to split’ and ‘mind’ because there is a split between what’s going on in their minds and what’s happening in reality. Usually sufferers only have a […]
Natalie Mills, MFT – I Feel Stuck
I hear the words “I feel stuck,” multiple times a day. This phrase is uttered by clients, friends, family, and by people I don’t know who are simply passing by. Sometimes these words are accompanied […]
Stanley Siegel, LCSW – Exquisite Unions: Final AIDS
[An excerpt from The Patient Who Cured His Therapist: And Other Stories of Unconventional Therapy by Psychology Tomorrow’s Editor-in-Chief Stanley Siegel] I was teaching family therapy at the University of California at Berkeley and working with the AIDS Project […]
Adam Neal – Psi Co-therapy: Using Psi in the Therapeutic Process
In an exquisitely written memoir, Tales from a Traveling Couch, psychotherapist Dr. Robert U. Akeret begins and ends with a basic thesis: Did my psychotherapy practice truly make a difference in my client’s lives? With […]
Magdalena Bak-Maier, Phd – Transforming: Finding and Practicing Self-Love
My interest and passion sits in transformational work. The word always conjures up images of a magician doing a spell and there we have it! The new, improved, more resilient, better version of what was […]