Our Trainers
Beth Mahler, LCSW, CFT, FOT
Beth is an Internationally recognized Certifying Coordinator for The International Focusing Institute. Beth integrates a creative process into her teaching which helps people to discover their own embodied sense of the Focusing experience. Inviting her students into a deep exploration at a pace that is slow, steady, and grounded in a full bodied mindfully aware practice. Beth has over 20 years experience as a Clinical Social Worker in hospitals, schools, and mental health clinical settings, which also informs her caring presence as curious beings embark on learning this practice. Energized by learning and growing, I continually enrich my own contemplative practices in yoga, meditation, chakra and energy fields of study.
Offerings include:
* Group workshops, retreats, and 2 Year Focusing Trainings
*Individual guided Focusing sessions by Zoom and in person
*Individual, Marital, and Family Therapy
*Free Changes meetings offer a place to practice Focusing in a supported environment facilitated by the NJ Focusing Trainers team
An integrative experience uniquely tailored for your needs. For more information, contact beth.f.mahler@gmail.com or
cell: 201-214-7898
Jocelyn Jacks Kahn, CFT
This is how I see my role as a Focusing guide: At those times that you're having trouble finding your way forward in an area of life that feels stuck or difficult, I help you reconnect with the larger Life that has the capacity to hold and guide you moment by moment.
The essence of what I do as a Focusing guide is to coach you into staying with your own bodily experience long enough to allow it to unfold into life-forward movement.
I was certified as a Focusing Trainer and Guide by The International Focusing Institute in 2010. The main Focusing traditions I have been trained in are Relational Wholebody Focusing and Inner Relationship Focusing. I am also certified as an instructor of Judith Blackstone’s Realization Process, a practice of embodied spirituality that I find to be a resonant complement to Focusing.
I offer classes in Relational Wholebody Focusing, as well as guided Focusing sessions over Zoom or by phone. For more information, please visit the guided sessions page on my website.
Other questions? Please visit my website at JocelynJacksKahn.com or contact me via email at jocelynkahn@gmail.com.
Maria Skoufas, CFT
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Maria Skoufas is a Certifying Coordinator, Certified Thinking at the Edge (TAE) Professional and Focusing Trainer. Maria wants to assist others in revealing the treasures that lie within through focusing. For the past six years Maria has co-facilitated two-year trainings in certifying new Focusing professionals.
Maria offers one-on-one guided Focusing sessions, classes in Interactive Focusing and TAE, and co-facilitates weekend retreats.
In addition to her Focusing practice, she currently works as an Account Manager for a telecommunications company; facilitating communication and connection for her business clients.
She is fluent in Greek.
For more information, contact Maria directly at maria.skoufas@gmail.com.
Yoshimi Shimuzu, LMHC
CFT, FOT, 臨床心理士（日本）
Yoshimi Shimizu is a Certified Focusing Trainer and Therapist, Licensed Mental Health Counselor in NY State and Japanese-Licensed Clinical Psychologist. She has worked internationally with adult individuals with social anxiety, self-criticism and judgement, traumas and acculturation/bicultural issues. She started to learn Focusing in 2011 and was certified in 2014. She found Focusing to be a process of feeling and touching her sense of being alive, which enables her to find her inner safety, a power of self-healing and self-trust. She values providing a safe space so a focuser can make a process at their own pace. Sessions can be provided in Japanese and English. For more information, please visit my work website or contact info@yoshimi-shimizu.com.
「いま・ここにある自分」に意識を向けていくフォーカシングはセルフケアやストレスマネジメントにも役立ちます。ご興味のある方は、上記のメールアドレスに日本語でお問い合わせください。日本語でのプロフィールはこちら。
