Auckland PSI^TM Institute and Psychotherapy

Judy Lightstone, PhDhas been providing psychotherapy for couples and families for the past 23 years and training professional therapists for the past 21 years. She recently relocated to New Zealand after receiving her Ph.D in Humanities with a specialisation in trauma psychology, and has just been registered with the New Zealand Psychologists Board. Clients describe her as gentle and compassionate in a strong way, tempered by an easy sense of humor. She helps you and your loved one/s become more conscious of yourselves and each other's interactional patterns, and offers support and advocacy as you learn to live with greater awareness of yourself, each other and the world. She integrates Hakomi Couples Therapy, which incorporates somatic awareness work ,teaching bodily mindfulness and empathy with self and other, Imago Therapy, which offers ways for partners to be more loving and compassionate with one
another, Bowenian Therapy which uses a genogram- something akin to an emotional family tree that maps out the family system pictorially, with the research of John Gottman into a whole couple/family system approach she calls Psychosomatic Integration (PSI). To view a more detailed description of her approach to working with families, click here.