Lynn Preston Psychotherapy

Join us for a DAY OF RELATING this Saturday!

THE SECOND MIRACLE

As I worked with focusing, I noticed something very intriguing. As the “felt sense,” or the “underbelly”of experience as Gendlin sometimes calls it, is evoked, a unique quality of therapeutic relationship evolves—intimate, delicate and powerful—through which the client is not only able to be more himself but is able to find a new, more alive, more trusting, open and resilient self.

I wanted to know more, from the inside, about the intensity and vitality that an emphasis on the therapy relationship could provide and began a search for a relationally oriented psychoanalyst with whom I could have such an experience.

With this therapist, I was encouraged to take interpersonal emotional risks. I was invited to give voice to my need for loving contact, to my fear of losing myself in those needs, and to my conflicts about asserting myself when I was feeling dependent. In this risk-taking, trust-building process, I discovered fresh and surprising ways of being, that I recognized as a “new me.” I experienced first hand that the building of new relatedness is a birth process in which two people, working closely together, nurture new life as it unfolds.

I call this amazing kind of therapeutic connectedness THE SECOND MIRACLE.

ATTUNED RELATING: STRUCTURE & SPONTANEITY

Thursdays, 11:30am-1:30pm EDT
April 17; May 1, 15, 29; June 12 & 26, 2025

The fee is $200. To register, send an email to [email protected] with the word RELATING in the subject line, along with the fee through Zelle or PayPal ([email protected]) or Venmo ().

What is Focusing?

Focusing is an active receptivity to the vague inklings of what is just beyond the horizon of awareness. It is Gene Gendlin's name for the process of sensing into implicit experience - a felt sense of the complex intricacy under the surface of words and thoughts.

Like going fishing, focusing is a way of relaxing into the boat of oneself and waiting attentively for a nibble from below.

Even though the fish might be out of sight we attune ourselves to its movements and hold gently but firmly to the line of connection with it.

I was fortunate to find Gendlin's work early in my career. I was then, and am still now amazed at how listening for, welcoming and articulating the deeper point, opens out into surprising new directions. This kind of experiential responding joins the inner world and the relational world.

The Focusing-Oriented Relational Community Empowerment (FORCE) Project welcomes to you participate in
A DAY OF RELATING
March 30, 2025
11am-6pm EDT on ZOOM

This workshop will be helpful for therapists of all kinds, group leaders, teachers, coaches, and all who want to relate more fully in their own personal lives.

To register, send an email to [email protected] with the word RELATING in the subject line. A $200 donation is suggested.