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
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I am a Relational Wholebody Focusing for Life guide and teacher. When you're having trouble finding your way forward in an area of life that feels hopelessly stuck, I help you reconnect with the larger Life that has the capacity to hold and guide you moment by moment.
Essentially, I coach you into staying with your own bodily experience long enough to allow you to find your own way forward.
Those areas where our life feels profoundly stuck inevitably reveal themselves to be our personalized spiritual path, pointing us toward a deeper connection with life. And that deeper connection helps us to live more fully and more satisfyingly from the wholeness of who we are.
I was certified as a Focusing Trainer and Practitioner by The International Focusing Institute in 2010. I am also certified as an instructor of Judith Blackstone’s Realization Process, a practice of embodied spirituality that I find to be highly resonant with Focusing.
I offer Focusing classes and guided sessions over Zoom or by phone.
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。
