Medicine

"I can't tell you how valuable Focusing is to the people with whom I work. Many people around the world use this simple yet powerful technique to relieve very disturbing symptoms of chronic pain, depression, anxiety, agitation and mania".

Mary Ellen Copeland, M.S.,
author of "Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofascial Pain"

Coping with Illness

The Focusing Institute has coaches who are specially trained in the use of Focusing with people who are living with cancer or other serious illnesses. These coaches are either cancer survivors themselves or have worked with individuals with cancer and other illnesses. The Focusing steps will be taught to you with sensitivity to the particular issues involved in living with serious illness, such as medical decision making, sharing with family and friends, and relationship to the body and its symptoms. If you would like to have a session with one of these coaches, please select "Coping with Illness" from the "Session Type" drop down box on the following page. Our coaches are not providing medical or psychotherapy services and are not involved in any way in diagnosing or treating illness or advising people regarding medical treatment options, but only in the use of Focusing as a practice that can support you in coping with an illness.

Phone coaching sessions

Articles on the site

Listening from the Heart to People Living with Cancer.
Mary Ellen Summerville, C.S.W., M.Div.
published in Folio (Volume 18, Number 1, 1999)

Felt Sense and Cognitive Function.
Doralee Grindler Katonah, Psy.D., M.Div.
published in Folio (Volume 18, Number 1, 1999)

Focusing and Medical Decision-Making
Doralee Grindler Katonah, Psy.D.
Presented at the 6th International Congress on Cancer, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, Nov. 1999.

Listening and Focusing: Holistic Health Care Tools for Nurses
Joan Klagsbrun, Ph.D.

Focusing: An Adjunct Treatment for Adaptive Recovery from Cancer
Doralee Grindler Katonah, Psy.D. and Judith Flaxman, Ph.D.

The First Step of Focusing Makes Any Stress-Reduction Technique More Effective
The Focusing Institute

Folio (Volume 18, Number 1, 1999): Focusing and Medicine

Last Modified: 02 March 2006