PSI Institute and Psychotherapy Services
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Psychotherapy Local: |Psychotherapy|
Therapy for Eating Issues
|Body
Image Issues|Assertiveness
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Course: |Healing Intractable Eating Problems|
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Location
Auckland PSITM
(PsychoSomatic Integration) Institute and Psychotherapy
254
Lincoln Road, Suite 5,
Henderson, West Auckland, New Zealand
Office right off the
Western Motorway
For map and directions
click here
Phone: (09) 835
1929
Individual
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 $120 per 50
minute session. Longer sessions are pro-rated accordingly. To
make an appointment, call
(09) 835-1929
or click here
Auckland PSITM
(PsychoSomatic Integration) Institute and Psychotherapy
254 Lincoln Road,
Suite 5, Henderson, West Auckland, New Zealand
Office right off the Western
Motorway
For map and directions click
here
Phone: (09) 835 1929
Individual
Therapy for Eating Problems
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,
and you may feel afraid to trust or you may want to dive right in. Either
way, we will both come to understand that trust is not a static thing -
it comes and it goes, and generally has to be earned to be meaningful.
While we are exploring these complexities, it's often a relief to start
talking.
We begin by helping you explore your personal experiences of food, feeding,
fat, and body size, and why these issues are so painful. You may have been
put on diets or diet pills, forced to eat when you weren't hungry, weighed
and lectured by well meaning (or not so well meaning?) doctors or relatives,
or felt otherwise disrespected and intruded upon. I will not be weighing
you or telling you what or what not to eat. This may feel like a relief,
or you may not like that. Some people become dependent on others to tell
them what to eat. I will simply be encouraging you to sense your hunger
and satiation points, and to notice when you can follow them as guides,
and when it seems too difficult.
Also link to:
Techniques for Treating Eating Problems
Techniques
for Working on Eating Problems
We may choose to include journal, art, or movement work, and guided fantasies
to help you express what the eating problem has been trying to say. Ultimately,
you will learn to eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full. But
in the meantime, when you cannot always do this, we will use the symptoms
to point us to the triggers and issues in your life that you have been
using bingeing, starving, and/or purging to solve. We work these through
one by one, until you feel stronger to face these difficulties without
depriving or punishing yourself with food.
Also link to:
Compulsive
Overeating,
The Diet/Binge/Purge
Cycles,
Helping
a Loved one With an Eatiing Disorder
Body
Image: A Feminist Understanding
Eating and body image problems can express some of our deepest experiences
as women and men. Issues such as staying true to our hunger/s; defining
ourselves within and outside of relationships to others; and taking up
space and being visible in a sometimes dangerous world, may show up in
our relationships to food and body.
Gender roles, the victimization of "fat", and cultural stereotypes all
play a role in the development of eating and body image problems. These
influences interact with our genetic endowments, family upbringing, and
experiences with peers in a multitude of ways. All of this must be brought
into our explorations of how your particular problem with food developed
the way it did.
Throughout we will be working toward increased self esteem and body size
acceptance. Acceptance does not mean the same as approval. Like trust,
it comes and goes, and has to be earned to be meaningful. But this acceptance
can be earned as you struggle to attune yourself to your body's internal
signals, work through exercise resistance or compulsion, and prove to yourself
that you can become a reliable self-feeder.
Also link to:
Improving
Body Image,
Fat,
Thin and Power
Group
Therapy (General)
If you are currently in a group
in the Auckland area that would like to hire me as a consultant
or group therapist/leader, you may contact me by e-mail or telephone
with questions and /or to set something up. My fee for group is $125 per
hour, divided among the members of the group. If you have a site where
you would like to hold your meetings, I may be able to travel to that site
if time permits. I charge $60 per hour for traveling time if the group
is more than a 15 minute drive from West Auckland. I have 25 years
of experience leading groups and consulting for self help groups in the
areas of eating problems, body image and working with adult survivors
of abuse. I have also worked extensively with general women's groups and
with assertiveness training and empowerment groups. You may
contact me by e-mail or by leaving a telephone message. Please let me know
what type of group you have and whether you would like a response by e-mail
or telephone.
JLightstone@gmail.com
(09) 835 1929
Link to:Experience
leading Women's Groups
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