Dr. Jane Bolton PsyD, LMFT, CC

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Dr. Jane Bolton Quick Facts

Main Areas: Psychotherapy for Self Esteem, Assertiveness, Anxiety, Depression, Creative Issues
Career Focus: Psychotherapist, Speaker, Supervisor of Therapists, Author
Affiliation: American, California and Los Angeles Associations of Marriage & Family Therapists, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Dr. Jane Bolton writes a blog for PsychologyToday.com,Your Zesty Self

Dr. Jane Bolton, PsyD, LMFT, CC, has both personal and professional reasons for being an expert in self-esteem. Born with the gift of being an "unwanted" child to a depressed mother and an enraged father, she has the joy of learning and earning her own high self-esteem.

Professionally, she has spent 16 years working to help other people love themselves more fully. She is a marriage and family therapist, a certified contemporary psychoanalyst and Master Results Coach in Culver City, California. A supervising and training psychoanalyst and adjunct professor at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Santa Monica, she also supervises psychotherapists for Los Angeles counseling agencies, and gives empowerment workshops to enhance Self-Esteem.

Her mission is to support all people in the highest and fullest expression of their Real Selves. This involves supporting Self Discovery, Self Awareness, Self Acceptance, Self Understanding, Self Growth and Development, Self Expression, Self Esteem and Self Expansion. In short, she helps people love themselves more fully so that they can love others more fully too.She carries out her mission by providing Psychotherapy, by giving Supervision and In-Service Trainings to psychotherapists, and giving Workshops and Presentations.

Intersubjectivity is a subject dear to her heart & her doctoral paper is based upon the treatment of a woman suffering from what Intersubjectivity Systems theorists call the "fundamental psychic conflict." This conflict often occurs for people whose early caretakers were unable to meet the child's needs, resulting in the dynamic of the child learn to meet the caretakers' needs. Adult children of Alcoholics, so called, "co-dependents", adult children of narcissists, and therapists, are some populations whose lives can be truncated by this basic conflict - and who can be helped enormously by psychoanalysis.

Psychologytoday.com blog: Your Zesty Self

Website: http://www.DrJaneBolton.com

Personal Blog: www.FreedomFromShame.com

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YOUR ZESTY SELF blog for Psychologytoday.com

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Dr. Jane Bolton

"Asking ourselves why we are not more often the person we wish to be is the wrong question. The question needs to be why we do not wish to be the person we are more often." Paraphrase of Oriah Mountain Dreamer

There's nothing so sad as, "It might have been." Anonymous

"Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else." Nathaniel Branden

"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin

"Nothing soothes fear and shame like connection." Pat Love & Steven Stosny

By consciously operating in oposition to our hidden fears of lack & limitation, we dispell their hold on us. Dr. Jane Bolton

"No one is perfect. That's why pencils have erasers."Anonymous

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whearas imagination embraces the entire world..." Albert Einstein