Transitional Psychotherapy

Victoria Shares Her Approach

As a pragmatic and action‑oriented person, Victoria has studied psychology to better understand the breadth and depth of human behavior. She has focused on techniques and systems that work well and work fast in the real world rather than in the synthetic environment of a consultant’s office. With the exception of Jungian and Freudian analysis, her work has been dedicated to practical, pragmatic problem‑solving.

Victoria spent six years at the University of Oregon and San Francisco State University studying psychology, completing both BS and MS degree programs, including two internships that focused on the psychology of people in relation to their employment. Most notably, during an internship at Stanford’s teaching hospital, the Palo Alto VA ran a real business on the ward for mental patients so they would be actively involved in rehabilitating their work lives. This real‑world rehabilitation was considered crucial to their overall mental health treatment

In England, Victoria served as the live‑in Director of a therapeutic community for mental patients, where psychological problems in relation to work were always integral to treatment. The guiding philosophy of the program is captured in the phrase, “It doesn’t matter if you are a paranoid schizophrenic, it’s still your turn to clean the kitchen,” which reflects a blend of responsibility, equality, and practical care

While in England, she studied privately with Mary Williams Stein, a prominent training analyst for the Tavistock Clinic and the Jung Institute, completing Jungian analysis. She also worked with Dr. Joe Burke of the Arbors Association and studied with Dr. Aaron Esterson, author of Sanity, Madness & The Family, also of the Tavistock Clinic. Additional studies included psychodrama, psychosynthesis, and gestalt psychology at Quasitor Institute and the Institute of Psychosynthesis in London, as well as at Esalen Institute in California.

After returning to America in 1977, Victoria made New York City her base. She worked as a psychological consultant in business, using various techniques within the context of everyday business problems, and served as a seminar leader for the American Management Association in courses related to management, supervision, motivation, and communication.

In her ongoing search for pragmatic, behavior‑modifying insights that busy executives can use “on the run,” Victoria began to focus her studies on symbols, imagination, and success patterns that help individuals connect intuition to concrete problem‑solving.

Beginning in 1982, she studied and practiced the technique of Waking Dream Therapy. For the next six years, she worked with Dr. Gerald Epstein of Mt. Sinai Medical Center and Dr. Vivian Lind of Metropolitan Hospital in New York City and studied with the originator of the technique, Ms. C. Muscat, in Jerusalem, Israel.

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