The Adolescent Shadow
Stay tuned for more info on Transpersonal & Depth classes & workshops starting Spring 2015!
LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs in CA: Courses from Renee Beck, LMFT meet the qualifications for CE credits for LMFTs, LCSWs and LEPs in CA as required by CA BBS. Provider #5888.
The more deeply we’ve gone into the Darkness, the more we appreciate the Return of the Light. Happy Solstice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=the7gV99YRI
I am happy to announce that my marvelous Intern, Valeria Harris, just passed her final licensure exam & is awaiting the arrival by mail of her California Marriage & family Therapist License! Congratulations, Valeria!
Valeria is a skilled, compassionate clinician who provides Heart-Centered Somatic Therapy. Our office is on Pill Hill in Oakland.
Please check out her website & give her a call to see how she can help you heal & thrive!
Have you ever gone to sleep with a thorny problem unsolved, only to wake up with a solution? Or to one morning wake up with a new song, poem or painting just waiting to be realized?
If so, you’re not alone! The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde came to Robert Louis Stevenson in a dream, as did Misery to Stephen King. Paul McCartney woke up one morning with the tune for Yesterday.
Scientific discoveries have been made within dreams. Kekule discovered the 
structure of the carbon ring by dreaming of an Ouroborus–a snake biting its own tail. The structure of DNA came through in a dream. Otto Loewi had a dream of the flow of chemicals between nerve cells, leading to the discovery of neurotransmitters.
Madame C.J. Walker received the ingredients & instructions for mixing a hair remedy that led to the incredible success of her cosmetics manufacturing company. Elias Howe dreamt of the design for needles for the sewing machine.
Other exciting designs, inventions & art work have come through dreams, too.
Your most personally fulfilling discoveries may come through your own dreams, & through working with them.
Contact Renee Beck at 510-387-0341 to set up a Dreamwork session, or to work with imagery & metaphor in Transpersonal Therapy. San Francisco Bay Area!
The Hills Whisperer, by Ellen Woods
Ellen Woods has been awarded a 2015 Artist In Wilderness Residency through the Wilderness Workshop, Carbondale, Colorado.
The East Bay Chapter of the California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists matches pre-licensed and newly-licensed therapists with seasoned therapists who volunteer as mentors. It’s a great way for beginning therapists to receive guidance & companionship in developing their clinical clinical skills, as well as in learning how to market their new businesses! It’s also a wonderful way for therapists with lots of experience to give back to the therapeutic community.
I am proud to be mentoring Arielle Vale, a wonderful therapist you can find at Grateful Heart Holistic Therapy Center in the San Francisco East Bay.
Learn more about this great program & get involved here.
Renee Beck, LMFT is an East Bay CAMFT Mentor, an approved supervisor at CIIS & at Blue Oak Therapy Center, & is Clinical Director Emeritus at Holden High School, where she worked with teens & their families, & trained & supervised the counselors for over 30 years. She has private practice in Dreamwork &Transpersonal Therapy in Oakland, & provides external supervision to MFT, ASW & PCC interns who have placements but need extra supervision to cover their client hours, or who want supplemental supervision.
Contact Renee at 510-387-0341.
This Saturday, I’ll be offering 20-minute Dreamwork Symbol Amplification sessions: While only you can discover the personalized meanings of your dreams, the symbols in your dreams have other associations that can help you gain a deeper understanding of the message your dreams hold for you. Bring in a short dream, & we will explore some of the cultural, metaphorical & archetypal meanings of its symbols.
Other 20-minute samplings are available — Reiki, Tarot, massage — at A Day of Renewal at Terra’s Temple in Berkeley. Come get renewed!
Spring! New Growth!
Life is starting to burst from the earth; what new growth arises within you? We have survived the winter darkness, huddled into ourselves, integrating lessons from the past year, building new aspects of Self, gestating new ideas & new ways of being. Spring calls us forth, juices flowing, if we have the strength to break through the surface into the light. The Vernal Equinox — the midpoint between the darkest & the lightest days of the year — is a great time to take advantage of this birthing of new life, both external & internal, to create new balance within yourself.
And you don’t have to do it alone! Get help tilling the soil, from another human or from birdsong. Find an exercise buddy. Join a band. Enter into self-exploration with a therapist. Access the new growth that awaits within!
For a free phone interview to see how Transpersonal Therapy can help you in this process, call Renee Beck, MFT at 510-387-0341.
We all search for Union with something larger than ourselves. Some of us find this in the romantic other, some in a muse of art. Some find this ecstatic embrace in Nature, some in the relationship with a god or goddess. It can also be found in service, in spiritual practice, or in devotion.
Wherever you find your heart & passion taking you beyond your small sense of self, to being part of something that is great, & good, may you journey a little further on that path today. Happy Valentine’s Day!