FORP Two Year Training Program Graduates
Calliope Callias, PhD
Kaufman Astoria Studios
34-12 36th Street
Suite 3/201
Astoria, New York 11106
Tel.: (718) 956-3997
Email: ccallias@yahoo.com
Eli Dickson, LCSW
180 East 79th St., Suite 1-A
New York, NY 10075
Tel.: (212) 439-5102
Email: eli.dickson@gmail.com
Website: www.relationshiprealizations.com
Eli Dickson has been a psychotherapist for more than 13 years and before that had a career in finance, which included working as a vice -president and bond analyst at Smith Barney. She has extensive training in focusing oriented relational psychotherapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, cognitive and schema therapy, and couples therapy. She specializes in relationship issues (for couples and singles) and financial psychotherapy.
“I have increasingly realized that my most powerful role as a therapist is to help clients connect with their deepest wisdom and find answers within. I like the term ‘facilitating emergence.’ My current passion is to incorporate focusing and the concept of ‘emergence’ in my new specialty, financial psychotherapy. In order to find ease in our relationship with money, we don’t just need knowledge and discipline – we also need to access the most authentic parts of ourselves to help guide us to find our true values, life purpose, and calling.”
Monika Gos
Email: monikagos@yahoo.com
Born and raised in Poland, Monika Gos completed a master’s degree in Music and Arts. However, she has always been drawn to psychotherapy and decided to pursue a career in this field. After obtaining a master’s degree in psychology at A. Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, she completed postgraduate trainings in Gestalt Therapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) at the Milton Erickson Institute in Berlin. Monika moved to New York in 2006 where she pursued training in Relational Psychoanalysis at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. Currently, Monika is attending a two-year program in Focusing Oriented Relational Psychotherapy and in body-oriented therapy at the Core Energetics Institute. Monika continues her interest in music and is an accomplished violinist.
“I believe that the most truthful approach in psychotherapy is to see the person in his/her three dimensions of existence: mind, body, and spirit. I find it most powerful in therapy to place these three aspects in the relational realm. From this perspective, one does not have to seek change – change comes organically and affects all aspects of human existence.”
Rutie Havazelet, LCSW
Tel.: (212) 414-5369
Email: ruthieh@att.net
Rutie Havazelet has been a psychotherapist for over 16 years with a certification in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and Focusing oriented relational psychotherapy. Over the years, Rutie has worked in schools and city hospitals as a psychotherapist and program coordinator. With a specialization in trauma, she has conducted classes and trainings, both nationally and internationally, in the area of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the history and psychobiology of trauma. Currently in private practice, Rutie works with adolescents and adults integrating her psychoanalytic, focusing, and spiritual backgrounds into her work. She also enjoys supervising and advising new social workers.
“My motivation and drive have always been the sense of freedom and hope gained through self awareness and connection to others. This has been the personal experience and journey that guides me and provides meaning in my work with clients.”
Lanie Kagan, MA CP
Tel.: (212) 627-5373
Email: laniekagan@verizon.net
Lanie Kagan is a certified Focusing oriented therapist/trainer and a graduate of the Focusing Oriented Relational Psychotherapy (FORP) training program in New York. During the past five years of a 20-year practice, her approach to working with clients took a radical turn with the application of Focusing as a philosophy, methodology, and a way of being. Her predominantly theory-driven and interpretive orientation was replaced by a deep appreciation of the intricacy and specificity of the client’s unique way of moving forward. Relational and intersubjective systems theory and skills have further laid the groundwork and framework for an active engagement and participation in the transformative magic of the uniquely experienced interaction.
“I am deepening my capacity to respect, understand, and love ‘the-one-I’m with.’ A new, developing interest is the psychophysical function and role of resonance in many healing modalities such as empathy in psychotherapy, the ‘shift’ in Focusing, the similimum (like cures like) in homeopathy, vaccination in medicine, and mirror neurons in learning. I am currently formulating a presentation on the subject for the upcoming International FORP Conference in November, sponsored by the Focusing Institute.”
Sandra Weinberg, CSW
Tel.: (212) 687-3637
Email: SSWeinberg@aol.com
FORP Ongoing Study Group
Rose Capone
Claudia Chau
Email: claudiawchau@yahoo.com
Susan Firestone, LCAT
Tel.: (646) 228-4246
Email: rubilite@aol.com
Susan Firestone is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. Susan’s training at New York University and at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in the Child and Adolescent Program laid the foundation for her work with trauma in the aftermath of Sept. 11th. She has worked for FEMA and the Red Cross in Lower Manhattan and in a hospital, several schools, and community centers during the last eight years. Currently, Susan is in a low-residency, online PhD program in Expressive Therapies at Lesley University in Boston. The program consists of 12 professional students from around the world, which gives the program – and its students – an international, multidisciplinary perspective. Susan is exploring the connection between resilience and creativity. She also holds a Masters in Fine Arts degree and has been a practicing artist for more than 30 years.
Naomi Glicken
Email: glickennj@gmail.com
Liz Kleinman
37 West 57th Street, Suite 601
New York, NY 10019
Tel.: (212) 980-4664
Email: Lizkleinman@aol.com
Liz Kleinman is a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She received her initial training for individuals from the Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA) and, simultaneously, for couples at the Training Institute for Mental Health, graduating from both in 2000. In 2002 she graduated from the Training and Research Institute in Self Psychology (TRISP) two-year training program and in 2004 completed the Group Training Program at Post Graduate Center for Mental Health. From 2002 to 2008 she taught classes and served on the board as admissions director of IEA. For the past two years she has been on the faculty of, and served as supervisor in, the group department of the Post Graduate Center. Currently, she is studying Focusing Oriented Relational Psychotherapy with Lynn Preston.
Liz is a graduate of the Juilliard School in violin performance and continues to perform professionally in New York City.
“I am a relational self psychologist working with adults both individually and in groups. I have a particular interest in working with couples as I believe that it is in the couple configuration that the individual’s developmental needs and strivings become powerfully illuminated, thereby offering greater possibilities for healing and growth both intra-psychically and interpersonally. Focusing has helped to deepen my capacity to listen and better to attune to the felt sense of my patient’s experience. My work with patients is also informed by my life experience in music, helping me to develop a sensitivity to emotional nuances and to think and work creatively.”
Hilary Maddux
Email: hmaddux519@gmail.com
Gerti Schoen, MA
Tel.: (917) 607-4525
Email: gerti@ordinarymind.com
Website: www.gertischoen.net
Gerti Schoen is a New York State licensed psychoanalyst who strives to integrate psychotherapy, Zen Buddhist practice, and focusing in her life and work. She was trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at Washington Square Institute and specialized in Relational Self Psychology at the Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology (TRISP) in New York. She has been a member of the Ordinary Mind Zendo in Manhattan since 2002.
“In my previous life, I was a journalist, traveling the globe in search of meaning from the ‘outside’ world. Now, I am traveling the ‘inner’ road, aiming to bring those two worlds together.”
Dorothy Spiegel
Tel.: (718) 622-7816
Email: dorothyspiegel@earthlink.net
David Whitaker, PhD
80 East 11th Street
Suite 321
New York, NY 10003
Tel.: (917) 626-4687
david_whitaker@earthlink.net
David L. Whitaker is a psychologist in private practice for the past 25 years. He
has a doctorate in clinical psychology from the New School for Social Research in NYC and has completed trainings in both Relational Self Psychology and Reichian Energetic Therapy, a form of bioenergetics. He has been studying Focusing Oriented Relational Psychotherapy for the past two years with Lynn Preston. His approach is an integration of in-depth relational psychotherapy and Focusing.
“My main focus has always been on finding ways to deepen the therapy process whether this be through analysis, bodywork, or Focusing. I have found Focusing particularly helpful in enabling myself and others to find the deeper meaning implicit in our own inner experience and our experiences with others. In therapy we search together for moments of meeting and transformation. My favorite Gendlin quote is, ‘every bit of human experience has a further possible movement implicit in it.’ To me, therapy is about you and I finding this implicit movement together.”