Come join us for an introduction to Focusing, a powerful practice that makes therapy integrative.

Come to an evening introducing you to Focusing.

A powerful practice that makes therapy integrative

Dr. Ruth Messer Koitzki – Clinical Psychologist

14.11.22 Monday between 20:00-22:00 Online evening

Participation fee: 50 NIS

During the heyday of the humanistic psychotherapy movement (the 1960s), the renowned psychologist Carl Rogers and his friend and philosopher Eugene Gendlin watched with great curiosity hundreds of films of psychological treatments performed using various methods. They were concerned with the question: What makes the difference between successful and unsuccessful therapy?

The instructive answer he discovered led Gendlin to develop Focusing.

Focusing is a unique and deep listening practice to the patient's experience, with attention to the various sensations experienced by the patient physically. The patient's specific listening to their experience is done in the presence of the accompanying therapist, and creates an opportunity for a dramatic change in emotions, thoughts and sensations - and thus in the entire experience.

The therapist's role in accompanying this special listening process is expressed in a presence of radical acceptance, echoing the patient's specific experience at that moment and inviting him to be there in various ways.

Focusing studies have been taking place at "Nafarshim" for several years now, and are conducted every year in two courses: 1) A basic course, which teaches the practice of Focusing and is conducted within the framework of many days of lectures, demonstrations, and intensive exercises. 2) A follow-up, advanced course, in which methods of implementing this practice in therapy are studied and practiced in depth, without preference for a specific basic therapeutic language of the various participants. Both courses include individual training and practice.

In this online meeting with Focusing, we will be introduced to a fascinating therapeutic tool: an experience that will include initial experimentation, explanations, a case study that will demonstrate the implementation of Focusing in psychotherapy, and exposure to its enormous healing potential.

Dr. Ruth Messer Koitzki (Ph.D.) is an expert clinical psychologist. She is an experienced therapist, instructor, and lecturer at many workshops and lectures in Israel and around the world. She began her professional career by studying clinical psychology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where she delved into dynamic approaches/depth psychology. After completing her studies, she returned to Israel to specialize in clinical psychology. During her specialization, she turned to the world of CBT in its various waves. Later, she traveled for periods of activity in centers of the greats in the field of cognitive-behavioral therapy in Britain and the United States (Prof. Marks. Prof. Foa. Prof. Beck.). Upon her return to Israel, about 25 years ago, while working in the public and private sectors, she received a license to practice hypnosis and a certification to practice focusing, which she incorporates into her therapeutic activities. The peak in building her individual integrative therapeutic language includes intensive engagement in focusing and vigorous activity in this area in various treatment and training frameworks.