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Robert L. Lee, Ph.D. Psychologist Coordinator Bio

Focusing Theoretician/Innovator. 
He has developed:
*Domain Focusing, a new kind of focusing.

The method has 3 domains-Thinking, Felt Sensing , and Self-Empathy.  It has 24 avenues into Felt Sensing, a safety protocol in the Self-Empathy Domain for intense phenomena including terror, trauma, dissociation, shame, grief, rage, vengefulness, jealousy; and a strong influence from TAE in the Thinking Domain.
* Macroshifting--Changing the Unchangeable through Focusing: *a theory and practice for timely deep change for things difficult to change.

Elusive Felt Sensing: a comprehensive practice for working with difficulties in felt sense formation.
*7shift 5 hour intensives: individual sessions for deep change

In Psychotherapy he has developed:
* Macro-DF Psychotherapy: a new kind of psychotherapy partly modeled on focusing training programs and their very favorable cost-benefit ratio for growth.
* Empathic Opportunity Coupling: a Focusing implied approach to Couple Therapy

*DF 4 person 4 hour/month groups with intensely guided sessions yielding a high frequency of deeper, broader, stronger shifts. He theorizes that more difficult change requires more of these kinds of shifts
*special methods for anxiety, OCD, and depression

*has taught & practiced FOT for over 3 decades

He has maintained a private practice in Boston, Costa Rica, North Carolina and Europe.
He has practiced in Spanish as well as English. He has an international consciousness.

Institutional and Board Work
Certified Group Psychotherapist with ample experience in groups and Group Therapy Associations
His mentors include Humanistic Psychology giants--Virginia Satir, and Clark Moustakas as well as Eugene Gendlin.
 He served on the Board of the Consortium for Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology Graduate Programs (CHTP formerly CDPP) and on the Transitional Board of The Focusing Institute
Developing Focusing Professionals and Coordinators
Leader of TIFI’s Certification Weeklong for 7 years. Led 15+ certification training programs. He has launched many new Coordinators (CCs).

Quakers: Created two successful Focusing Projects at Cambridge Friends Meeting (Cambridge, MA)

Creating Focusing Community:
Significant contributor to establishing focusing in the Boston area (1987-1999),
Major contributor in establishing New York City as a leading location for Focusing in the US. (1997-2012) Established focusing in Costa Rica, leading 4 training groups in Spanish and hosting the first international focusing conference in Latin America.

Has lived and taught focusing in Europe-Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Portugal. Has taught focusing in Israel, Japan, Australia and China.

Created Cross-Lingual Focusing Partnership and used it at several international gatherings to facilitate focusing partnership between people with an imperfect common language.

 

Given Name
Robert Lott
Surname
Lee
Business Name
Phone
919 869 7487
City
Chapel Hill
State/Province
NC
Country
United States
Certification(s)
Certified Focusing Professional, Coordinator
Coordinator (Can certify through the Institute)?
Can Certify in Focusing
Coordinator-in-Training (CiT)
Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT)?
Practices Focusing-Oriented Therapy
Services Offered
Coaching, Couples Sessions, Group Sessions, Individual Sessions, Online Sessions, Phone Sessions, Presentations, Trainer Training
Credential(s)
Ph.D. Psychologist
Language(s) Spoken
English, Spanish
Areas of Interest
Adults, Body Psychotherapy, Bodywork, College Students, Community Wellness Focusing, Conflict Mediation, Couples, Creative Process, Dance, Domain Focusing, Energetic Bodywork, Interactive Focusing, Medical Applications, Mental Illness, Mindfulness, Pain Management, Parenting, Spirituality/Meditation, Thinking At The Edge, Trauma