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Joan Fenold, MA
Sex: Female; MFT # MFC20021 1719 Union Street, San Francisco 94123 2305 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley 94705 (510) 848-3372 www.joanfenoldmft.com Fee scale: Some sliding DESCRIPTION OF CLINICAL PRACTICE Within a contemplative relational environment, the essence of my work lies in cultivating a caring connection with you in which you would feel safe to engage in an inner journey home, to your own heart and mind. Some of our relational issues involve lack of trustboth in ourselves and others. I support a strengthening of mindfulness, self- compassion and authenticity to attend to your experience in the moment and support your learning how to open yourself to live from your heart and trust in your innate good heartedness. We may also begin to wonder how old or recent hurts, beliefs and self-defeating ways of thinking may be causing a closing down of openness to your vulnerable feelings and difficulty with heart-centered honest self expression. We can explore your making an intention to be a person who can be trusted, to realize that you have choice as to how you relate to yourself and others, to feel independently confident within yourself. I support the possibility for you to live with an ability to create relationships that involve practicing awareness, mutual respect and authentic expression of feelings and needs. I enjoy helping people develop a deep sense of personal integrity, warmth and wisdom. VIPASSANA MEDITATION BACKGROUND I have attended many vipassana (including one 3-month retreat), Dzogchen, Advaita (non-dual) & Zen retreats with wonderful teachers. RELEVANT CLINICAL TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE I have worked with individuals and couples in a spiritual context for thirty years. Trainings: Contemporary psychoanalytic relational psychotherapy, existential perspectives, mindfulness based cognitive and compassion work, dreamwork, non-harming communication and awareness of the somatic/energy system. CAMFT Certified Consultant to psychotherapists; The Supervision Study Program-The Psychotherapy Institute; Advanced Training in Couples Relations at The Tavistock Institute-London. |