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jamie Kohanyi

As foundress of Four Seasons Sisterhood, I seek to encounter the psyche (soul) of those women who are called to gather in community through conscious conversation and the engagement of non-ordinary consciousness through dreamwork, active imagination, prayer, art, music and ritual.

I received my masters degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Counseling Psychology where my training in mythology, archetypes, and depth psychology benefited from the wisdom of its supporters and founders including Joseph Campbell, Marion Woodman, James Hillman, and Thomas Moore. I am also honored to hold a certificate from the CG Jung Institute of Los Angeles and The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology founded by psychedelic pioneers Robert Frager and James Fadiman. I've was certified by Psychedelic Research and Training Institute (PRATI) to offer ketamine assisted psychotherapy.

I consider myself to be situated at the crossroads of four schools of psychotherapy: depth, transpersonal, feminist and ecopsychological. I believe human suffering constellates in predictable patterns we’ve come to call diagnoses and all express an unmet want or need that is often buried in the psyche (soul) and soma (body). These unconscious longings reveal themselves in our language, dreams, movements and images but also through unwanted symptoms. Part of the task of therapy is unearthing these hidden yearnings and discovering ways to integrate, meet, or grieve these subconscious longings in a whole-some way.

Many significant events in people's lives that lead to symptoms happened before they had words or were so traumatic and wounding, they couldn't be captured in language which would be too limiting. Most of the people I work with come to realize they have been expressing themselves through eating disorders, addictions, and compulsive behaviors until psychotherapy gave them a new way to talk about, tolerate, or transform their experience.

With these limitations of language in mind, I was trained and received a certificate through The Sky Mountain Institute in Expressive Arts Therapy and Ecopsychology which focuses on what creativity and creation have to teach us about ourselves and reality. I spent two brief yet meaningful years at Boston University studying anthropology lends an awareness of our evolutions as animals when considering sex, gender, and culture.

My most foundational training in caring for the soul was through music and I have a bachelor’s degree from Berklee College of Music where my principal instrument was the human voice and the blessing of our was regularly celebrated.

The areas of healing most calling to my attention at this time include relationships between Jung’s masculine and feminine polarities, disordered eating and movement patterns, body image concerns, and the psychodynamics of parent and partner attachment. Perinatal mental health is particularly important to me and I am a certified perinatal mental health provider (PMH-C).

I consider myself an integral universalist with foremothers from Ireland, Sicily and the many places in Eastern Europe that received my paternal Jewish ancestors as refugees. I have practiced yoga for 25 years and am a continuous student of the subtle body described in non-Western medicine systems like Ayurveda to Anthroposophy. I currently attend an Eastern Catholic church with my family with a particular devotion to The Mother in all her forms.

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