by Ken Benau | Jul 1, 2019 | Blog, News |
Shame and pride serve many intrapersonal and interpersonal functions, and understanding how best to work with each in psychotherapy, particularly with survivors of relational trauma (see Schore, 2001), is essential. This is part of a series of posts that have been...
by Ken Benau | Jun 17, 2019 | Blog, News |
The following session took place one year, 4 months into my therapy with “Clay”. Clay is a very attractive, always well-coiffed, intelligent, articulate man in his mid-50s who originally sought therapy to determine if he “had ADHD”. ...
by Ken Benau | Jun 12, 2019 | Blog, News |
Hank is in his mid-40s, married, with two latency aged children. Hank is bright, articulate, personable and works in a technical profession where he has achieved considerable success. About 12 years prior to this session, Hank, with several co-developers, created a...
by Ken Benau | Apr 2, 2019 | Magazine |
Go to the issue Go to course “Jessie” was in her late 60s, a single, never married woman who worked caring for animals. At the time of the session I will describe below, Jessie and I had been meeting in mostly bi-monthly psychotherapy for 2...
by Ken Benau | Mar 10, 2019 | Blog, News |
A colleague on a listserve, whom I’ll call “Dave”, wrote about the relationship between left and right brain processes as relates to memory reconsolidation, and how left brain processes can rigidify and destroy or harm the “big...
by Ken Benau | Mar 10, 2019 | Blog, News |
About a year ago I was introduced to an approach to working in psychotherapy with survivors of complex trauma (CRM- Comprehensive Resource Model; Schwarz et al, 2017). In the CRM book the authors mentioned “terror”, which got me thinking about...
by Ken Benau | May 2, 2017 | Magazine |
Download Article: [download id=”29707″] Ken Benau, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with 27 years’ experience. He has a private practice in psychotherapy, consultation and training in Kensington, CA, located in the San Francisco Bay area. For...
