About Judith Gusky
Take a moment to learn more about me and the focus of my therapeutic work. I am still grounded in one-on-one psychotherapy. Depending on your needs and interests I will work with you on any range of issues. But you'll see from this website and the brief bio below that I welcome clients who wish to explore less traditional topics that often may be stigmatized by the mainstream mental health and medical community. Also note that my therapeutic approach may be less focused on the unconscious or subconscious mind and more geared to an exploration of the conscious self, the soul self, or the higher self.
With Warm Regards, Judith Gusky
Overview and Background
I am a retired Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). This was a mid-life career change for me following years working to save old buildings from urban renewal bulldozers in the 1970s and then pursuing academic goals in the field of American social and cultural history.
It was my years working with therapy clients that opened many doors for me that I had not intended. I had the standard training in one-on-one talk therapy. But it did not seem adequate. So there were forays into more integrative models that included bodywork (primarily craniosacral therapy), hypnotherapy, regression, meditation, spiritual exploration and psychic phenomena. Mental health and medical practitioners often talk about holistic approaches to health and wellness --mind-body-spirit-- but psychotherapy and medical science eschew the idea to a large extent. Healthcare remains fragmented and siloed.
During my years as a therapist, clients would come to me with issues of depression, anxiety, profound grief, trauma, and difficulty adjusting to the demands of life and the unrealistic expectations underlying the social stresses of our time. Many clients came too with complaints of pain, fatigue, chronic illnesses, and undefined physical problems often diagnosed by doctors as psychosomatic. With others, I saw that mental health issues could grow out of a client’s empathic or psychic abilities, prescience, clairvoyance, lucid dreams or spirit attachments.
Work with these clients led me to expand my background into the area of "spiritual emergencies" (often labeled by mainstream medicine as psychosis or schizophrenia, bipolar disorder etc.). I also studied the area of past-life phenomena (in adults and children) and offered hypnosis or past-life regression options to clients. More recently I have become immersed in consciousness studies, near death experiences, and channeled writings. I've even explored the relatively recent expansion of consciousness studies in physics and other sciences (a challenge for the layperson).
Recently, I decided to return to limited counseling practice offering online, short-term sessions to clients. This is a time of great change and stress. I call this a period of "unraveling," a time of intensified feelings of anxiety and hopelessness about an uncertain future (individually, collectively, and on a planetary basis).
My work with clients now includes greater focus on broader existential issues of our time and exploration of the conscious self and the beliefs that keep us stuck in a reality that perpetuates feelings of separateness, divisions and hierarchies of being, persistent and unending war, and a dominant psychological state of fear.
Topics and Issues You Might Like to Explore
- Helping parents or expectant parents understand the spontaneous past-life memories and spiritual experiences of children who are often wrongly diagnosed with mental illness at a very early age.
- Using telepathic thought to communicate with the prenate and the pre-verbal child.
- Understanding the spiritual roots of mental illness, physical disease, and pain.
- Finding that the body has an inherent ability to heal itself.
- Exploring birth, death and dying from the perspective of the eternal nature of consciousness.
- Learning how to align the self and the soul.