George Koren

LPC, LMFT

Probably, the most significant experiences influencing my work with clients has been my own personal emotional and in-therapy experiences. These have been both pleasant and unpleasant. I have used negative roles models and resultant experiences to move and redirect my style toward a more therapeutic direction as well as following positive role models on a healthy therapeutic path.

My favorite book both for myself and clients is one that has often helped me regain and keep my grounding and thus I offer it to others for the same. Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle is a book of short meditative readings which are meant to be experienced in the here and now of the present moment rather than simply providing intellectual or behavioral information. It can lead one out of incessant doing into being (present).

Recently, over the past ten years of clinical practice, my focus has become from being a top down therapist to a bottom up therapist. This has been through utilizing the practice of Brainspotting. Specifically, this methodology has caused me to refocus more on how we respond physically to a situation, then emotionally, and finally intellectually. It has invited me and at times forced me to pay very close attention to clients and myself experientially in the present moment thus assisting me in becoming a better therapist.