Kristine
Hi! My name is Kristine. Throughout my life and studies I have found that many people respond to life’s stressors in different ways. I try to understand what is going on with me in most situations and do my best to strive to gauge what is going on with those around me. I find it helpful to look at situations from not only my point of view, but from the vantage point of those...
Read MoreSuzy explains psychotherapy for yogis…
While the purpose of Yoga is the expansion of consciousness beyond all suffering, many yoga practitioners still struggle with their basic psychology. This is mainly due to the commercialization of public classes, which has toppled the sacred and transformative aspects of the practice. Large, sweaty classes are not inherently a negative thing, since physical yoga offers a multitude of...
Read MoreNarrative Therapy & learning to unsuffer
I’m fascinated with social justice and the human response to wrongdoing that tends towards retribution. What does it mean to live as a society, or an individual, in a constant state of reactivity? How can one get beyond this, and start to live with a true sense of freedom that is more akin to transcendental justice. I grew up in South Africa, during apartheid, in a privileged, Jewish,...
Read MoreYogic Psychotherapy – Part I
Non-dual, yogic philosophy teaches us that we are all emanations of the One (Shiva, God, Consciousness, Love, Essence, Nature, etc.) This perspective has many implications for the practice of psychotherapy – let’s turn our attention to just a couple. First of all, as human beings our lives are ALL sacred, no matter how each of us thinks, feels and behaves. In other words, the...
Read MoreInsurance & Therapy, pt 1
We do not accept insurance for therapy- And here is why. People don’t generally expect therapy when making out their budgets. They really don’t expect it when they have insurance coverage that covers medically necessary treatments. For these treatments to be covered, the clinician must give you a medical diagnosis, which becomes part of an elaborate trail of paperwork...
Read MoreJosie discusses who goes to therapy and who becomes a therapist
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Read MoreNew Series on Therapist Tells All- Meme Watch!
I was a big fan of the word “meme” in the early 2000’s, when I was doing some reading on Buddhist philosophy versus religion. I love that it has now turned into a pillar of internet culture. A meme, in the original sense, is an idea that propels itself, much like a computer virus. Read a great piece on that here. Internet memes are usually ridiculous sites,...
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