Rachael Vaughan, MA, MFT
I believe the goal of therapy is to help you realistically become who you truly are–not to fix you, or tell you how to be. If you work with me, we’ll look at your personal, family, and cultural history, and the beliefs you hold about yourself and the world. Where we find traumas, disturbing memories or negative beliefs, we can use a variety of methods to loosen them, learn from them and heal them–including EMDR.
I have an engaged, intelligent, lively approach grounded in Jungian theory as well as the latest research into attachment, mindfulness and trauma. I’m trained in Gestalt, EMDR, dreamwork, and expressive arts therapy. I offer therapy in English and French.
Some of my specialties include:
- single people wanting to improve their chances of finding and keeping a satisfying partnership
- people surviving a divorce
- couples wanting to communicate better and get past relationship blocks
- work-related trauma, including workplace bullying
- adult children of alcoholics
- international people and immigration issues.
I also run a support group for adult children of Holocaust survivors.
British, born in Asia, I lived for many years in France before moving to the US. I work with many international clients and mixed nationality couples on issues of cultural identity, displacement and transition, as well as immigration trauma. I write the Ethnopsychology Blog.
As a therapist, I draw on my own life experience, as well as my training:
- MA in Counseling Psychology, from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
- EMDR, a rapid and effective treatment for traumatic memories.
- Advanced DreamTending, with Dr Stephen Aizenstat.
- Expressive arts: using process art, collage and writing to work through issues in therapy.
- T-Group facilitation, at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
- Gestalt psychotherapy training with Gestalt Associates Training, Los Angeles.
- Couples therapy, with Dr Daniel Wile.
I also draw on wisdom from multiple cultural traditions, including the French fields of psycho-généalogie, and ethno-psychiatrie, the emerging field of Liberation Psychology, the ancestor work of West-African teacher Sobonfu Some, the eco-philosophy and social critique of Derrick Jensen, the writings of Gloria Anzaldua, and the Buddhist teachings of Pema Chodron.
I am a member of the Adjunct Faculty at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, in Palo Alto.
Please go to my website for more details.
My therapy website is here.
My blog on ethnopsychology is here.
My marcom consultancy website is here.
Click below for my LinkedIn profile.
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