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PSI Institute

254 Lincoln Road

Henderson

Waitakere City

West Auckland

New Zealand 

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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 analysing 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 centres of the brain may be "off-line". For this reason, PSI addresses issues of perceived safety and trust first, and teaches self awareness and self modulation of physical activation levels throughout the work.

PSI 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.

Individual sessions are charged at $135 per 50 minute session GST inclusive.  Longer sessions are pro-rated accordingly. To make an appointment, call (09) 835-1929  or click here

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         PSI is an overall theory and approach developed by Judy Lightstone. It incorporates  Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and bodily mindfulness, attachment repair, ego state work, derivatives of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) such as Lifespan Integration and the DNMS (Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy), all based on a foundation of feminist object relations. These approaches to mind and body healing are integrated to address the whole person.

 Judy Lightstone, PhD has been providing individual, group, and couples and family therapy for the past 24 years specialising in eating and body image difficulties, and issues resulting from severe stress and trauma. She received her PhD in Humanities with a specialisation in trauma psychology in 2006, and offers counselling services in West Auckland. She has also been providing supervision and training for professional psychotherapists 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 PSI^TM, (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 humour. For more information see Resume/CV

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