PSI Therapy Associates’ Infoline,

as of January, 2000

This is a verbatim copy of the Infoline as recorded for the call in service.  I am working on a modified version more suitable for viewing on the web and will post it as soon as it is ready.  It will contain all the information of this version plus some amplification that time constraints don’t allow in the taped version.

Hello, and on behalf of PSI Therapy Associates, welcome to our Infoline.  I am pleased to invite you into a more creative and very different format for our long-lived information service, which began in 1986.  In this edition we are attempting to give a taste of what the Psychotherapy experience offers rather than contrasting it with the numerous mass-marketed forms of counseling available.  This makes it more complicated than previous Infoline’s.  Because of this it requires the listeners full attention and should be listened to in one sitting.  Please call back if needed or as many times as you need to.  That’s what the service is for after all.  We will also have a modified transcript available on our web page, as well as a lot more information than we can provide here.  Our web address is www.oz.net/~psyche.  A “tilde” is that wavy character up by your escape key.  The address again is www.oz.net/~psyche.

Let’s briefly cover PSI’s basics beginning with the people.  First is Kathy Cregan, one of the founders of PSI and a therapist for over 20 years.  Kathy is one of those people who are hard to categorize.  If you ask her why she is a therapist she’ll say it’s because she loves it.  If you press her further she’ll ask you:  “Why do you love sunsets, or a favorite old sweater or a good book on a rainy day?”  Then she’s likely to smile and say “Some things just happen to you and there you are!” 

Next is Dianne Nauer.  Although she’s been with PSI since 1992 we still jokingly refer to her as the “greenhorn”.   However, we also long ago dubbed her “The Natural”  in respect of her intuitive people skills.   Dianne is a cross-over from the medical profession.  She compares medicine to therapy by saying  “Medicine has all the answers but not always the best solutions.  Psychotherapy has the solutions but doesn’t have very many answers.”  And this from the lady who says she hates paradox!

Both Kathy and Dianne have Masters degrees, if you are one who cares about such things.  Last is yours truly, the other founder of PSI, now retired from active practice partly due to health concerns but also in order to pursue new interests.  We established PSI back in 1981 in order to pursue our craft away from the more regimented environments associated with agencies.  It hasn’t made us rich but its kept us busy and satisfied.