Jenaii Gold Ph.D, MFT
Author
The book is based on my 33 years of clinical practice in both private practice and agency work. Supervision of interns throughout my professional life was the instigation for this book and for sharing fundamental truths and methods.
Once I was in a cab in New York. The cabby made a sudden right turn and went right through a gas station parking lot at lightning speed, and into a lane of traffic moving swiftly in the opposite direction. My heart dropped! "This is one of those tricks of the trade you learn after you've been driving as long as I have," he said, laughing. After catching my breath, I also laughed.
I took his statement as affirmation for my book, as I had just finished the early chapters entitled "Tricks of the Trade." The only way you know some things is through practice, practice, and more practice. You gotta live through it! However, there is light and guidance along the way. In that vein, this book is also part memoir and lays down the stepping-stones of observation, imagination, and metaphoric and symbolic process for increasing awareness.
How do you, as a therapist, relate to your client? How do you move into more depth-oriented therapy? How do you engage the client in a more internalized process and move toward resolution and growth that feeds the soul as well as the mind? These evocative questions form the basis of this book. The book also explores how the therapist walks with the client, and how her own development is intimately connected to that of her clients.
