Dr. Justin Weiss
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It’s an honor to introduce you to our amazing team! All of our Soulful Psychology® clinicians are experts in the Soulful Psychology® approach, and are extremely kind, compassionate, caring, and deeply invested in your wellbeing. We are proud of the work our clinicians do and are excited for you to meet with them. We look forward to the soulful connection that emerges from working together.
Justin M. Weiss, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Founder & Owner of Soulful Psychology®
Dr. Weiss founded Soulful Psychology®, a theoretical orientation and group therapy private practice, to help people heal psychological symptoms and thrive in life through reestablishing a soulful connection with self and others. Dr. Weiss works with patients in therapy, supervises psychological associates, trains clinicians in Soulful Psychology® concepts and methods, and consults with organizations.
About Dr. Weiss
Dr. Weiss earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Depth Psychology (i.e., Jungian Psychology and Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy) from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Dr. Weiss completed a pre-doctoral internship at an American Psychological Association accredited multicultural counseling center in Los Angeles. Dr. Weiss also completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at Rose City Counseling Center, where he furthered his extensive training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy working long-term with individuals and couples, and completed specialized training in psychoanalytic approaches to healing trauma.
Dr. Weiss’ long-standing research and publications focus on psychological resilience and the ways people overcome tremendous adversity and thrive. Dr. Weiss has presented his research at various conferences such as the American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Convention, the APA Division 39: Psychoanalysis Annual Conference, and the Society of Humanistic Psychology Conference. Dr. Weiss served as a scholar on the APA Division 39: Psychoanalysis Multicultural Concerns Committee and leads organizational trainings on how to build resilience.
Dr. Weiss is an adjunct university professor at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) where he teaches courses such as Intercultural Communication that focus on how culture and diversity influence personal identity. Dr. Weiss also teaches courses on public speaking and communication. Dr. Weiss collaborated on founding the Civil Discourse and Social Change Program at CSUN, and founded and coordinated Unified We Serve the community service and outreach program at CSUN.
Maximize Your Potential
I work with people to maximize their potential by understanding how symptoms can inform one’s path towards self-discovery and personal transformation. I conceptualize soulful-attunement as formidable in people’s internal and relational development. Additionally, my research on psychological resilience influences my belief that every person is capable of accessing the internal resilience to overcome adversity and thrive.
The Soulful Way
I work with people to relieve symptoms through soulful connection that can often result in joy and fulfillment in life. My approach involves helping people understand and heal the origins of their symptoms. This includes paying attention to unexpressed thoughts and desires, integrating unacceptable parts of personality, expressing uncomfortable emotions, listening for intuitive answers within, and breaking repetitive patterns that keep people stuck.
I believe all thoughts, emotions, and behaviors have meaning that informs about soul. Our work is to understand the meaning of your symptoms and attune to what your soul attempts to communicate. Therefore, my approach includes exploring dreams, associations, fantasies, intuitions, slips-of-tongue, and non-verbal communication.
In working with people from diverse backgrounds with various symptoms I have found that healing comes from a close patient-therapist relationship where difficult topics can be treated with respect and care. You will find my relational approach to be caring, engaging, and challenging. I will support you in the process of soulful connection that can enhance joy and fulfillment.
Core Tenets of Therapy:
Resilience
Throughout my research and experience working with patients, I have found that all people have the capacity to be resilient and I believe Soulful Psychology® methods can help people access their resilience to turn tragedy into triumph, oppression into opportunity, and survival into thriving.
Wholeness
We all have tremendously complex parts of our personality that can get suppressed due to shame or embarrassment. I have found that integrating all parts of one’s personality creates wholeness that leads to self-acceptance and reduction of symptoms. I believe Soulful Psychology® can help people become whole by learning to embrace overwhelming and unacceptable parts of personality, listening to intuition, embracing conflicting and contradictory thoughts and emotions, and engaging in a harmonious connection with oneself and others.
Growth
I believe that people have a guiding force within (i.e., soul) that yearns to emerge, grow, and thrive; this belief is informed by my work with patients who display an internal drive towards hope and wellbeing in the presence of darkness and despair. Even destructive behaviors serve as failed attempts to seek lasting comfort, which marks one’s internal desire and drive towards bettering themselves. I work to help patients unearth their internal drive that has been submerged under fear, pain, and neglect so that patients can channel their drive in productive, healthy, and lasting ways. Soulful Psychology® creates a space to recognize (often in dreams, free-associations, intuitions), the constantly evolving internal drive that seeks compassion, expansion and growth.
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“It is only to the individual that a SOUL is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose [themself] in any other way.”
-ALBERT EINSTEIN