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Joan Fenold, MA Sex: Female; MFT # MFC20021 (Since 1985) 1719 Union Street, San Francisco 94123 2305 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley 94705 Mill Valley 94941 (510) 848-3372 joanfen@comcast.net www.joanfenoldmft.com Fee scale: Some sliding DESCRIPTION OF CLINICAL PRACTICE A therapy relationship provides an opportunity to create a contemplative environment in which you can develop your ability to have a meaningful and compassionate understanding of your feelings, thoughts, behaviors, needs, and relational patterns; to live your life with greater awareness, authentic expression, and capacity for self reflection: and cultivate a sense of personal integrity. With an attitude of gentleness towards meeting all aspects of yourself, we can work to develop trust in what is being felt and experienced in the present. We may discover how experiences from your past have led you to form self-defeating beliefs, and how old hurts and conditioned mind may be influencing your present inner dialogue and relationships in ways you are unaware of that prevent you from connecting more deeply with yourself and others and from moving in alignment with what has heart-meaning and truth for you. As our work deepens we can strengthen your ability to more sensitively connect with what is authentically true for you in the moment; to express what is true while in close relationship to others. It is my hope that our work together would contribute to your capacity to create deeply satisfying relationships in which mutuality, wholeness, love, vulnerability, kindness, and fidelity to truth are cherished. VIPASSANA/MEDITATION BACKGROUND For the last 28 years I have attended many vipassana, Dzogchen, and Advaita (non-dual) retreats. I sat the 3-month course at IMS, Barre, MA and visited with Sri H.W.L. Poonja in India. My work has been influenced by teachers such as Sri Ramana Maharshi, the Dalai Lama, Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Ram Dass, Stephen and Ondrea Levine, Adyashanti, and Norman Fischer. RELEVANT CLINICAL TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE My work weaves together the wisdom of Buddhist teachings, mindfulness, and non-dual heart wisdom with the best from contemporary relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy, existential-humanistic perspectives, cognitive work, dreamwork, non-violent communication and includes an awareness of the somatic/energy system. I have worked with individuals and couples in a spiritual context for over twenty years. I have completed trainings with the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis North, and graduated from the Supervision Study Program at the Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley. I serve as a consultant to licensed clinicians and am a CAMFT Certified Consultant/Supervisor. I have presented workshops at Spirit Rock. |