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my experience; I would invite you, while being
skeptical, also to be curious. Life Centered Therapy
can often shift in a simple session what other forms
and healthier lives. This calling for greater
understanding, as well as certain experiences which
he could not fully comprehend within the confines
of traditional Western paradigms, led him on a
search for answers that opened him to the worlds of
Buddhist and Eastern Psychology; Mystery Trainings;
and Depth, Archetypal and Spiritual Psychology.
During this period, Thich Nhat Hanh, Brugh Joy, Dick
Olney, Helen Palmer, Barbara Hastings, and Claudio
Naranjo were particularly influential and powerful
teachers for him.
In 1997, after several years of witnessing the power
of the work, Dr. Hahn developed the Life Centered
Therapy Training program for those who want to
facilitate and/ or teach this process. Today, Dr. Hahn
has a private practice in Waltham, MA; speaks,
teaches and leads trainings and healing groups
internationally; and continues his effort to better
understand what is going on for people so that he
can better help them live more contented and
healthier lives.
of therapy can not so effectively treat.It is also true
that Life Centered Therapy is often used as an
exploratory and healing process overtime.
Using the multidimensional framework that is Life
Centered Therapy, we can transmute: 1) the limiting
beliefs that cause us our greatest anxiety, 2) our
deepest fears of experiencing our feelings, and 3)
overly rigid or permeable boundaries.
We can transform stories that affect all of our
centers - stories that include betrayal of trust,
traumatic death, unmet longing, curses, and others
far too numerous to mention here. Finally, we can
realize that we can make different choices and
rediscover and experience our essential and truest
selves.
Andrew Hahn, Psy.D. is a
licensed clinical
psychologist. He received
his A.B. Magna Cum Laude
in Social Studies/
Psychology from Harvard
University and his Psy.D.
in Clinical Psychology
from Hahnemann
University. He is certified
by Helen Palmer to teach
the Enneagram and has
also been a faculty
member in the graduate Counselling Programs at
Lesley University and Northeastern University.
While Dr. Hahn?s strong foundation and significant
experience in traditional psychology has served his
clients well, he has been untiring in his effort to
better understand what is going on for people so
that he could better help them live more contented
Joan Beckett, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor,
has a B.S.Ch.E. in
Chemical
Engineering from
Tufts University, an
M.B.A. from
Rensselaer
Polytechnic
Institute, and an
M.A. in Holistic
Counseling and a
Certificate of
Advanced Graduate
Study in Mental
Health from Salve
Regina University. She has studied the Enneagram
extensively with a number of different teachers,
most recently with Helen Palmer and Russ Hudson.
She is the former Controller of the Worldwide
Engineering Division of Pfizer. She completed the
Guided Self Healing (now Life Centered Therapy)
Program in 2001 and then went on to qualify herself
as a GSH Trainer. She has also presented workshops
at the Association for Comprehensive Energy
Psychology, International Society for the Study of
Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine, University of
Guelph (Ontario, Canada) Sexuality Conference,
New England Holistic Counselors Association
and New England Chapter of the American
Holistic Nurses Association. She currently
maintains a private practice in North Kingstown,
RI.
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