
Imagine a native American Golda Meir, her compassionate, strong presence, gentle heart, and the skillful means she brings to her work--an unforgettable journey with a remarkable woman." - J. Nicoli, Seattle, WA

A family therapist, artist, author, and mother of four, Djohariah has taught, lectured, and led retreats and workshops nationally and internationally on the subject of personal and spiritual growth for the last thirty years. She is author of The Road by the River: A Healing Journey for Women (Harper and Row, 1987, republished by St. Martin’s Press, 1994) and Songs from the Mountain: The Four Directions to Spiritual Breakthrough (St. Martin’s Press, 1994, and Falken TaschenBuch, Germany, 1998).
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Djohariah's professional work includes individual and family therapy, workshops, seminars, public speaking, and community-oriented social justice. Her areas of specialty include: family systems; relationship and communication; conflict resolution within families and groups; art and play therapy; addiction and eating disorders; depth psychology, dreams, and myth. She has taught workshops in the US and abroad, including Panama, Mexico, Canada, Germany, and South Africa.
In 1986 she founded and was Director of Arbor House Counseling Center in Livermore, California, which provided therapy supervision, consultation, and training to interns, students and healthcare practitioners, for twelve years. In 1999 she received a "Woman of the Year" award from the Livermore Soroptomists Club for her work with women and children in the Livermore valley. Djohariah volunteers with children at risk, with the homeless community, and with people experiencing chronic and terminal illness. She lives on the Oregon Coast, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington.
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Djohariah's professional work includes individual and family therapy, workshops, seminars, public speaking, and community-oriented social justice. Her areas of specialty include: family systems; relationship and communication; conflict resolution within families and groups; art and play therapy; addiction and eating disorders; depth psychology, dreams, and myth. She has taught workshops in the US and abroad, including Panama, Mexico, Canada, Germany, and South Africa.
In 1986 she founded and was Director of Arbor House Counseling Center in Livermore, California, which provided therapy supervision, consultation, and training to interns, students and healthcare practitioners, for twelve years. In 1999 she received a "Woman of the Year" award from the Livermore Soroptomists Club for her work with women and children in the Livermore valley. Djohariah volunteers with children at risk, with the homeless community, and with people experiencing chronic and terminal illness. She lives on the Oregon Coast, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington.
Retreats & Workshops
Over the years of her practice Djohariah has woven the Creative Process into her retreats and workshops. A blend of Jungian Depth Psychology and East-West spiritual traditions, Creative Process is based on the idea that within the unconscious and the soul there is an immense creativity waiting to happen. The methodology is designed to challenge our self-limits, confront the memories and wounds of the past, and free up the divine wilderness within.
These retreats and workshops are rooted in process therapy, dreams, poetry, the arts, eidetic imagery, and creation-centered spirituality. Through individual and group facilitation, participants directly access fields in the unconscious--where self-limiting beliefs, as well as profound creativity, exist side by side. Along with traditional therapies, Creative Process also incorporates the feminine element in healing work. And as the feminine is innately relational, this means exploring an uncompromising relationship to the whole self; to the inner world of feeling and intuition; to the body and its senses, and their vocabulary; it means exploring the archetypal language of dreams, synchronicity, and the numinous world of Spirit. |