Judy Lightstone
PSI Institute
254 Lincoln Road, Suite 5, Henderson, Auckland, 0610  New Zealand
(027) 657 2106

QUALIFICATIONS:

2009

Approved Provider#08015 of Continuing EMDR Education, EMDRIA (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing International Association)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2007-present   

Director, Consultant/Trainer. PSI (PsychoSomatic Integration) Institute, International  ( and in California from 1990-2006 was Director Consultant/Trainer of Helping the Helpers)        

• Lead consultation groups, offer individual and group supervision and consultation, and teach courses and workshops for mental health clinicians  on working with eating problems and trauma sequelae
• Offer conference presentations, professional consultation, training programs and workshops for numerous colleges and non-profit organizations

2007- present

Tutor, HD&TI (Human Development and Training Institute) Trauma Certificate Program, Auckland, New Zealand

• Designed curriculum for HD&T Institute's Trauma Certificate  with endorsement in Eating and Body Image Issues

• Train counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists in how to work with eating disorders, trauma and dissociation

2007 - present     Psychologist, private practice, Auckland New Zealand

• Provide individual, couples and family psychotherapy, specialising in eating disorders and working with abuse survivors

1984- present     

Psychotherapist/Marriage and Family Therapist, private practice, in Nyack NY (1984 - 1990), in Albany and Berkeley CA (1990 - 2006), and online from New Zealand (2006-2007)

• Provided individual, couples, family, child and group psychotherapy, specialising in eating disorders and working with abuse survivors and their families

1993-95   

California State MFCC Intern, private practice of Eleanor Luce, MD  Albany, CA

• Provided individual, group, and family therapy specializing in eating disorders and post traumatic stress sequelae

1993-94   

California State MFCC Intern, Berkeley Unified School District, Berkeley, CA

• Provided child and family counselling to high school students  and their parents
• Consulted with teachers, did information and referral

Family Worker/Parent Coordinator, Nyack Headstart, NY

• Coordinated Parent Involvement workshops for parents in Headstart Program
• Did case work with families of Headstart children

Assistant Director/Trainer, Career Directions for Homemakers, Bronx Community College

• Designed curriculum for assertiveness and job readiness training series and led training workshops for inner city low income mothers
• Provided individual and group counselling, information and referral
• Wrote funded $65,000 grant proposal which expanded the existing program into new areas

2007-present for PsychoSomatic Integration Institute (PSI Institute), Youthline Auckland, and Human Development and Training Institute (HD&TI), designed and taught beginning, intermediate and advanced courses in PSI and in Eating and Body Image Issues

2007    for Auckland Women's Centre, Auckland, NZ: Keynote Address: Women Food and Beauty

2006    for the 23rd International ISSD Conference in Los Angeles, CA Somatic and Lifespan Integration with Dissociative Eating Problems

2005    for the Northern California EMDRIA conference, Oakland, CA: EMDR and Dissociation

2005     for Renfrew Center Foundation Conference in Philadelphia PA Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders:  Enduring Wisdom, New Frontiers

2004     for International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD) Conference, New Orleans. workshop: Dissociative Aspects of Eating Disturbances

2003     for ISSD Conference, Chicago. paper: Compulsive Eating and Dissociation

2001     for the East Bay Chapter of CAMFT: The Dissociative Continuum: An introductory workshop

1998-2000 for the Collegial Learning Center: Women, Food and Beauty: A Feminist Object Relations Approach

1997  for The Psychotherapy Institute Case Conferences: Compulsive Eating and Dissociation: Working With a Couple System through in-depth Psychodynamic Work with one Partner.

1996  for Conference Presentation For East Bay CAMFT: Feeding the Feeders: Compulsive Eating in the Helping Professions

1995 for EBCAMFT "We & Me" Conference. Topic: Working with Dissociative Disorders: A Team Approach

1994 for Marin Assisted Independent Living Services: Understanding Eating Disorders: Seeing Beyond the Symptom

1994 for CAPSAC Conference. Topic: Compulsive Eating and Dissociation

1994 Respondent for the Psychotherapy Institute Case Conference Topic: The Elusive Phenomena of MPD

1992-93 for East Bay Recovery Center. In-Service Training Series:

• Addiction and Dissociation
• Working With Dissociation: Diagnosis and Assessment
• Working With Dissociation: Treatment Goals and Approaches

The Case of Mistaken Identity: Ego States and Eating Disorders, Chapter (co-authored with Andrew Suebert) in EMDR Solutions II, Robin Shapiro Editor. in press
 

The Role of Dissociated Love and Trauma in Human Violence and Evil. Published Dissertation, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2006

Dissociation and compulsive eating. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 2004 Volume: 5 Issue: 4, pp. 17-32

Workbook and training manual on working with dissociation.  Berkeley: 1992 (accompanies training workshops led by the author)

Working with dissociation: A training manual for substance abuse clinicians.
Unpublished Graduate Thesis, California State University at Hayward: December 1992

Compulsive eating and dissociation: Toward a trauma theory of eating disorders.
Paper presented for the Women's Therapy Center, 1991

Women and power: A five part series. A series of articles published in Women's Network News, NY, 1989

Use of a feminist interpretation of family systems theories in a consultation done with a worker-run collective.  Unpublished Graduate Thesis, New York University, June 1981

1979-81   

Workshop Facilitator, Children's Creative Response to Conflict Program, Nyack, NY

• Ran intensive training workshops for teachers, school support staff, and child-care workers in inner-city schools
• Facilitated in-classroom conflict-resolution workshops for children and teachers grades 1-12. Did individual counselling with the children.
• Wrote funded $14,000 grant proposal and did program development

Counsellor Intern, Counselling Service, NYU School of Education, NYC, NY

• Ran assertiveness training workshop series
• Provided personal, career, and educational counselling for college students

Co-led women's counselling group

Co-Director/Switchboard Coordinator
Marin Women's Health Center, YWCA, San Rafael, CA

• Recruited and trained volunteers in advocacy and covering the information and referral switchboard
• Did outreach and program development

Counsellor
Women's Refuge, YWCA, Berkeley, CA

• Provided crisis intervention counselling for homeless residents of the Refuge
• Made referrals and did intakes

Assistant Counsellor, Exceptional Student Services, C.W. Post College, Greenvale, NY

• Did counselling and co-led disabled students support group
• Co-led educational workshops on disability for non-disabled participants

Crew Chief, Mayor's Office of the Handicapped, NYC, NY

• Placed, supervised and counseled disabled enrollees in summer employment program

9/73-1/74  

Psychiatric Technician, Mt. Airy Psychiatric Hospital, Denver, CO

• Provided individual counselling for acutely psychotic adults
• Charted daily progress and consulted with psychiatrists

Faculty member, HD&TI (Human Development and Training Institute) Trauma Certificate Program

Faculty member, ISST & D Dissociative Disorders Psychotherapy Training Program

Member, ISST&D (International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation)

EMDR Berkeley Study Group

Member EMDRIA (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing International Association)

Member, APTED (Association of Professionals Treating Eating Disorders)

Board Member and Co-Chair Membership Committee, EBCAMFT
(East Bay Chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists)

Steering Committee Member, East Bay Feminist Therapy Referral Project

Member, The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley

EXPERIENCE LEADING WOMEN'S GROUPS

2/81-6/81   

Counsellor Intern, Counselling Service, NYU School of Education, NYC,NY

• Ran assertiveness training workshop series

Provided personal, career, and educational counselling for college students

Co-led women's counselling group

1977-78     

Co-Director/Switchboard, Coordinator, Marin Women's Health Center, YWCA, San Rafael

• Recruited and trained volunteers in advocacy and covering the information and referral switchboard
• Did outreach and program development

1976-77        

Counsellor, Women's Refuge, YWCA, Berkeley, CA

• Provided crisis intervention counselling for homeless residents of the Refuge
• Made referrals and did intakes

      Before starting her private practice in 1984 specialising in Eating and Trauma issues, Judy had a large range of work experiences, including being co-director of a Women's Health Center, Assistant Director for a Displaced Homemakers Program, Conflict Facilitator for a program in city schools, and a counsellor for people with disabilities. She has worked with families in the public schools, preschools, and a HeadStart program. She has done abortion counselling, psychiatric counselling, and job counselling, and has led assertiveness training workshops, groups for women with compulsive eating problems, and empowerment workshops for survivors of trauma.
    Currently she maintains a private practice in West Auckland, New Zealand,  is on faculty and develops curriculum/leads workshops for the The PSI Institute and the Human Development and Training Institutes in Auckland, as well as for the EMDR International Association, and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation's Psychotherapy Training Programs.  She recently co-authored a chapter in Robin Shapiro's book EMDR Solutions II (2009) entitled. The Case of Mistaken Identity: Ego States and Eating Disorders, She received her PhD in 2006 and published her dissertation on the Role of Dissociated Love and Trauma in Human Violence and Evil.  She trained and became certified in EMDR in 2004 and took 5 years of post graduate training at the Women's Therapy Centre Institute (founded by Susie Orbach) in working with eating and body image problems and published an article in the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation on Dissociation and Compulsive Eating.  She has also published a training manual entitled Working with Dissociation.  She received a Masters degree in Family Therapy from California State University Hayward in 1992, and an MA in Counselling from New York University in 1981.