Henry Grayson Ph.D., A.B.P.P.

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Henry Grayson Quick Facts

Main Areas: Psychoanalyst, Psychologist. Ph.D.
Best Sellers: Mindful Loving Book, and CD Series, The New Physics of Love
Career Focus: Practice in NYC, Westport, Author, and Speaker
Affiliation: Founder of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and the Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy

Dr. Grayson received his Ph.D. from Boston University and a Postdoctoral Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy from four years of postdoctoral training at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health in New York City. He is the Founder and is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York, a postgraduate local and national psychotherapy training institute chartered by the Board of Regents in New York State. He also founded and is Director of the Institute for Spirituality, Science and Psychotherapy and is the Founder and past President of the Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy- a national membership organization. He was the Resident Psychologist on the Weight Watchers Magazine Show, hosted by Lynn Redgrave and aired 5 times a week nationally on Lifetime Cable. He will appear in the new movie, "The Truth", which is in the genre of "What the Bleep" and "The Secret", but one with many tools for practical application. It will be released in December, 2009.

Prior to graduate school in psychology, he took a graduate degree in theology at Emory University (essentially to please his family) and was a Protestant Minister for four years in Massachusetts in route to attending Boston University for his Ph.D. While as a student at Emory he was also the University Debate Coach and the Director of the Candler Choraliers, which produced a 33 rpm record for the Protestant Radio & Television Center, entitled,"Songs of the Spirit." Even though he was constantly questioning old theological concepts portraying God as an "out there flat earth sky God," he was elected by the faculty as the "Outstanding Senior of the Year." Immediately following receipt of his Ph.D. at B.U.,he became an Assistant and then a tenured Associate Professor in the City University of New York for eight years while doing his postdoctoral fellowship, starting his practice, and then founding the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.

He is the co-author of three professional books: Three Psychotherapies: A Clinical Comparison, Short Term Approaches to Psychotherapy, and Changing Approaches to the Psychotherapies as well as numerous chapters and articles. More recently, he recorded a 9 ½ hour, 8 cd audio series for Sounds True, The New Physics of Love: The Power of Mind and Spirit in Relationships (2000). He is also the author of Mindful Loving: 10 Practices to Deepen Your Connections. (Gotham Books/The Penguin Group, 2003, which was featured in the April 2004 issue of Oprah’s Magazine, and has been translated into Korean and Russian. Two more books are in progress.

Dr Grayson has studied Eastern and Western spiritual philosophies, Quantum Physics, neuropsychology (the new brain scan studies,) most of the major psychotherapies, and has created innovations on the new “power therapies” such as EMDR, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT, EFTA), Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT), and Thought Field Therapy (TFT), non-local mind studies and other new sciences and integrates them into the practice of his Synergetic Therapy in New York City and in Connecticut. He lectures and teaches widely, across the United States and abroad.

He is the host of the weekly radio show, "Mindful Living" on the Progressive Radio Network (PRNcomm.net). He is a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, a Diplomate former Board Member and conference Chairman of the Association for Comprehensive Psychology, a Diplomat of the American Board of Psychotherapy, a member of the American Psychological Association, the New York State Psychological Association, the Connecticut Psychological Association, the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, the Institute for Noetic Sciences, The Society for the Scientific Study of Subtle Energies Medicine, EMDR International Association, a former Officer and Board Member of the Eastern Society for Group Psychotherapy and is the Founder and Past President of the Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy.

Dr. Grayson's Clinical Practice

Dr. Grayson is a certified psychoanalyst, but has also studied and practiced most of the major psychotherapies, such as cognitive therapy, Gestalt therapy, hypnosis, transactional analysis, group therapy, couples therapy, EMDR, the other new "power therapies"(Emotional Freedom Techniques, Tapas Acupressure Technique and evolving Thought Field Therapy and other energy psychology methods some of which are his new innovations.) These are used for quickly and effectively clearing effects of traumas and other painful experiences, disturbing emotions, as well as negative core beliefs--that "software" we so often live by.) He as been strongly influenced by diverse spiritual systems and practices, new brain research, Neuropsychology, and insights from Quantum Physics and other new sciences, and has developed a powerful synergy, combining these into a unified system for spiritually and scientifically oriented psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, called Synergetic Therapy.

Other Programs & Highlights

Dr. Grayson also teaches his Synergetic Therapy throughout the USA and abroad. His seminars are usually entitled Use Your Body to Heal Your Mind.

Dr. Henry Grayson, renowned Psychologist, Ph.D., author of Use Your Body to Heal Your Mind, Mindful Loving and The New Physics of Love. Dr. Grayson teaches you how to get to the barriers to healing as well as to the basic original cause of an illness, physical or emotional. A doctor will not tell you what the cause of the diagnosis is, instead you will typically be told how to focus on repairing the symptom in a certain body part only. The underlying cause is not likely to be attended to, for it often lurks under the surface, requiring ongoing and relentless curiosity and the deep desire to know. While research has defined some of the origins of various illnesses, it most often does not get beyond the linear connection to something physical. And especially, there is rarely any attention given to identifying the barriers to health and healing. And alas, most physicians and other health care professionals are just not trained in this manner since it is rarely if ever included in traditional or naturopathic medical school curriculum, and little is presented in the curriculum in training psychotherapists. Your deeper healing may come more from embracing a quantum world view, a spiritual world view inspired by ancient wisdom traditions, or an unveiling of an unconscious psychological perspective. Growing numbers of self healers have found in their experience, as Dr. Grayson has found in his, that repeated colds, viruses, backaches and allergies are just not necessary! Nor are so many of our more serious and even life threatening illnesses inevitable and incurable!

The painful experiences of childhood (developmental traumas) not only remain encoded in the limbic system and other parts of the body until cleared, but accumulate and weaken us emotionally and physically, distract us from spiritual growth, and cause painful and repetitive patterns in our minds and bodies. Talk therapy alone often rehearses and reinforces these traumas. We are then led to conclusions called "core beliefs, which work like software, "printing out" confirmation in every area of our lives until cleared. These often crystalize into unproductive identities or bodily illnesses.

Most of us say we want to be happy, successful, and healthy, but often have difficulty making these happen. It's as though we are trying to sail our boats, not knowing we are dragging several anchors. We can now use energetic methods to quickly identify these "anchors" or blocks, where they originated, and which method we can use to effectively clear them

You will Learn:

how Dr. Grayson has repeatedly done his own self healing
the purpose of all healing and why complete healing must start with healing the mind
why we do not heal our body symptoms even when we say we want to get well. you will learn how to identify prevalent, but mostly unconscious barriers to healing, and quick effective ways of clearing them
why we get sick: the powerful role of beliefs, traumas, thoughts, secondary gains, the tribal mind and family systems
why the mind rules over genes
why childhood traumas and stresses often predispose us to serious adult illnesses;effective ways of clearing the effects of these traumas; we need to continually clear effects of traumas and stresses; how to use powerful tools for creating health and happiness that anyone can use
how to use subtle energies to promote healing of the mindbody. You will learn how to use meridian based therapies:EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), TAT (Tapas Accupressure Technique), Thought Field Therapy, chakra energy balancing techniques, variations on EMDR and creative visualization to promote healing
insights from new discoveries in biology, quantum physics, brain scan studies, and horticulture, neuropsychology and the implications for healing
five questions I ask myself when I get a physical symptom
how to use muscle testing from applied kinesiology to identify barriers to healing, happiness, and success
how your mind affects your body instantly. In the Quantum mind-body, the body is 99.999% empty space, meaning it is only 1/1000 of 1% matter, which is why our minds intervene so powerfully, positively and negatively
how to use your body signals and symptoms to heal emotionally and spiritually as well as physically
how to prevent or heal most colds, flus, viruses, headaches, backaches, and other common ailments as well as serious illnesses
the roles of prayer, meditation, surrender and other spiritual practices in self healing
the role of specialized rituals to focus consciousness for self healing
Why Attend this Seminar?
Make 2010 the year you harness and use the proven power of your mindbody to heal yourself and/or others of mental and physical pain! Brain scans and new sciences such as quantum physics show us that the mind is directly related when it comes to illness and suffering. Our thoughts are constantly communicating with every cell in our bodies either creating health or disease.
Limited belief systems are inherent to human nature and as limited as most believe themselves to be, there is a surge of new data through research science which demonstrate that our limitations are self-created. Just as we create our limitations in what we believe our selves to be capable of, on the other end of the spectrum is that our power is infinite and is based upon scientific studies that teach us to reinforce our more positive and less limiting belief systems.
Surveys and studies continually show that most human beings have built in barriers to healing and happiness. These can be identified and cleared. Many practitioners have found that this seminar helps them learn how to identify and heal the causes behind such chronic illnesses including: cancer, depression, Multiple Sclerosis, back pain, colitis, phobias, and many others, so that the physical components often times go away.
Why would we willingly choose to continue to believe we are severely limited in our capacity to heal and better ourselves when we can choose to acknowledge ancient wisdom, new sciences, brain scans and quantum physics experiments that show we can access our own abilities by tapping into our atomic energetic fields to heal ourselves and others with tried and true methods?
With time, everything advances, including technology. Why wouldn’t we want to open our mind to the options available to us and our patients? Why not become aware of more effective ways to operate, function, and better our selves within the fields of psychotherapy, medicine and healing? The helping professions can now too also study new ways of adapting to the ever changing world, improving upon, quickening and quantifying their work. This seminar explores scientific advances in the field of psychotherapy and healing.