Cohen Jeffrey T

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PRIMAL THERAPY HAS EVOLVED: Jeffrey T Cohen, LMHC, the Founder and Director of the Institute for Integrated Feeling Therapy (formerly the Manhattan Center for Primal Therapy), formalizes the evolution of primal therapy in his important work:
Primal therapy arose in the late 60's and early 70's from a powerful and simple concept: that feeling early childhood pain allowed us to be free of neuroses in the present. But the therapy had a problem. The problem was that despite experiencing powerful feelings, many primal therapy clients failed to effect change in their everyday lives - failed to quit that dead-end job, end that unhappy marriage, or try for that unfulfilled career dream.
Most importantly, although clients were able to feel how unloved they were as children this often didn't translate into learning how to love and be loved as an adult. Jeff Cohen has accomplished a unique integration of the deep-feeling approach of primal therapy with emphasis on practical change. By fully feeling what we've lost as infants and children, we are free to fully feel in the present - but it doesn't do any good unless we act on those feelings. This is the crucial contribution of Jeff Cohen's Integrated Feeling Therapy. Jeff's work combines the power of deep feelings with the will to change. IFT will help you look hard at your life to see and act on what you need to change.
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Jeffrey T. Cohen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, licensed to practice psychotherapy by the State of New York. He completed his B.A. in psychology at the City University of New York. His initial clinical training was in classical primal therapy from 1981 through 1986, first with Julienne Jones Scanlon, one of the initial therapists trained by Dr. Arthur Janov. He completed his primal therapy training with Theresa Sheppard Alexander, M.A., the former Resident Director, and Director of Training of Janov's New York Primal Institute. He also was trained in classical and Eriksonian hypnosis and is a certified hypnotherapist. He has studied mindfulness-based meditation, including hatha yoga. His work was also supervised by Dr. Herman Weiner (formerly a supervising analyst at NPAP), over a four-year period in the early 80's. He is a member of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society (EGPS), the American Group Psychotherapy Society (AGPS) and the US Association of Body Psychotherapy.
Jeff has lectured at various universities and therapy seminars, and has been a guest on radio talkshows, including recently on WBAI's "The Positive Mind". He has developed, and teaches, a comprehensive training program in the theory and clinical technique of Integrated Feeling Therapy and Integrated Feeling Life Coaching.
Jeff is also an accomplished guitarist and songwriter, with a recently completed album produced by Rob Norris, bassist and founding member of the alternative rock group, The Bongos. Songs from this deeply emotional album have been played on radio stations around the country. Jeff has been happily married for 25 years, and has three children, four cats (three rescued) and one BIG rescued dog (at last count)!