I-Psych NY
Integral Psychotherapy and Growth Work
Joanne Rubin, Ph.D.
NY State Licensed Psychologist
Email: Joanne@iPsychNY.com
Cell: (914) 310-5447
Welcome!
Do you ever notice how naturally we’re drawn to what feels good, in a world that brings both joy and challenges? Moments of pleasure can be brief, while difficult experiences can leave a deeper mark—but that contrast is also what gives life its richness and meaning.
Have you ever wondered, what is the meaning and purpose of life? What am I doing here, on this astoundingly rich planet?
Instead of constantly chasing the next good thing, we can slow down, appreciate what’s already here, and utilize our best self to grow from difficult experiences. This shift can open the door to a steadier, deeper, and more lasting kind of happiness.
How do we do that?
Heal old wounds affecting you in the present
Grow into your best self
Expand your consciousness of what is arising in each moment
Healing, Growth, Self-transcendence
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Depth Psychotherapy: Clean out the basement of unfinished wounds and traumas. Open channels between your conscious and unconscious. Psychological defenses divert emotional energy away from openness to growth and self-transcendence. Healing leads to wholeness, which leads to growth.
Growth Work: Continue to grow up. There is plenty of maturing to do for everyone. Picture the most mature human beings you’ve ever met. Describe their qualities. They continue to grow, too. Fulfill your highest potential. Every new step increases happiness. Not to grow is to grow stale.
Expanding States of Consciousness: Decide on a practice that you would like to pursue. According to Abraham Maslow, self-transcendence is the highest stage in the developmental hierarchy of needs. In Ken Wilber's Integral theory, adult maturity inevitably leads to higher consciousness.
Integral psychotherapy and growth work can benefit you if you want to:
- Pursue depth therapy that blends with growth and spiritual/meditative development
- Develop higher consciousness in a mature, healthy self
- Integrate spiritual or parapsychological experiences with your ordinary life
- Reduce “monkey mind” in your meditative practice
- Identify and correct spiritual bypass
- Open channels between your conscious and unconscious, which is both egoic and universal
- Develop your sense of “the Good, the True, and the Beautiful” as Ideals that expand you as you pursue them
- Complement your spiritual practice with shadow work