Joan Lavender's work is committed to integrating the philosophy and practice of Eugene Gendlin’s Experiential Focusing, a highly regarded and researched psychotherapy process that has been shown to correlate with positive life change, enhanced self-esteem, and the experience of integration and wholeness. She is a graduate of The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York. City. She holds a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology and is a past Fellow in psychotherapy research. Joan is in practice in New York City (hybrid) and Granby Connecticut (online only).
Her publications include clinical research on the process of symbolization in psychotherapy, eating disorders, envy, loneliness in women and aging.