Judith
is an innovative teacher in the contemporary spiritual
and psychotherapy fields. She developed Realization
Process, a method of realizing fundamental (non-dual)
consciousness,and applying it to psychological and physical
healing, and has taught it for twenty-five years throughout
the United States and at Esalen Institute in California
since 1987. She is on the faculty of The Institute
of Transpersonal Psychology and SUNY Empire State College.
She has her Masters
in Transpersonal Psychology from John F. Kennedy University
and her Ph.D. in Psychology, Eastern Religion and Embodiment
from Union Institute & University. She trained at
the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in New York
City. She has twenty-five years of clinical experience
as a psychotherapist and is licensed in New York (Mental
Health Counselor 000388).
She has been a meditation
practitioner and student of contemplative traditions
for over thirty years. She has studied with many
teachers in both the Hindu (Advaita Vedanta, Bhakti
and Kashmir Shaivism), Zen Buddhist and Tibetan Buddhist
traditions. She has received numerous teachings, over
the past three decades, in the Mahamudra and Dzog-chen
traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.
She is author of
Living Intimately, The Enlightenment Process: A Guide
to Embodied Spiritual Awakening, The Subtle Self: Personal
Growth and Spiritual Practice and The
Empathic Ground: Intersubjectivity and Nonduality in
the Psychotherapeutic Process. Her essay, Nonduality
and Intersubjectivity in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship
was published in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology
and in the anthology Listening from the Heart
of Silence. She has also published in the USA
Body Psychotherapy Journal and Inner Directions Journal.
She has presented Realization Process and papers on
the interface of psychotherapy and Realization Process
at Self Psychology conferences, the Towards a Science
of Consciousness conference in Tucson, Arizona, the
Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Conference
at Oxford University, UK and the Conference on Nondual
Wisdom and Psychotherapy in San Francisco.
