Esther Zahniser, M.A., Ed. Psychology

About This Practice

Practicing Since 1988
Teaching Since 1989-2005

Additional Modalities: I was fortunate to have a developmental psychologist for my advisor in my M.A. studies. I was influenced then by the work of Adler, Dreikers, and Virginia Axline; and by the children in my practicum placements. In my coursework at the University of Maryland, Graduate Counselling Program, I was influenced by the work of Rogers, Jung, and Virginia Satir.

In London I certified in and used NLP as an aid to the Voice Dialogue facilitation process.
The Centre for Transpersonal Psychology's basic courses nourished my work. Elizabeth Kubler Ross’s Life, Death & Transition 5-day residential and follow-up workshops in her Externalization of Emotions process
and her Interpretation of Spontaneous Drawings brought new dimensions to the Voice Dialogue work.
The last ten years I’ve been a student of the Ridhwan School: its meditation and sensing practices. Its focus is on working respectfully with “false” representations of Being, thereby, dropping below them into their “true” nature. Very compatible with my Voice Dialogue work in dropping below the conditioned form of a self to get to what's beneath. Ridhwan's focus on “object relations” has a similarity to the bonding patterns of Voice Dialogue. For the past five years I have been training in Qi Gong.

Areas of Interest: I have a private practice in London, offering Voice Dialogue facilitation to individuals. I give phone and Skype sessions. My work is especially effective for people who: feel blocked emotionally, creatively, or relationally; Those who are experiencing mid-life crisis situations, as the push for wholeness seems to intensify at this time. I’ve worked with so many dreams over the years, and love the way that voice dialogue helps to reveal what the dream is teaching us.

* The most recent workshops.