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Judy
Weiser is a psychologist, art
therapist, consultant, trainer,
and author interested in the nonverbal and visual
aspects of
communication and behavior at both
individual/familial and societal/cultural levels
-- especially regarding
the "why" of taking, posing for, keeping,
and looking at ordinary personal and family snapshots.
 One
of the earliest pioneers of "PhotoTherapy" techniques,
Judy has spent over thirty years developing, teaching,
and providing
consulting and mentoring about these techniques (and
also about the related fields of "Therapeutic
Photography", "VideoTherapy" and "Photo
Art Therapy"), while actively using these to help
her clients during her previous work in her second specialty
area of therapy for the emotional, mental, spiritual, and
cultural issues relating to living with HIV/AIDS (especially
for Native/Indigenous people) -- and training others to
do this.
Director
of the PhotoTherapy
Centre in Vancouver, Canada (which
she founded in 1982 to serve as the world's networking
base and extensive resource library for these fields),
and former Editor of the Journal Phototherapy,
Judy has given nearly three hundred PhotoTherapy
training workshops and lecture presentations in
over fifty cities world-wide*, teaching people how
to use PhotoTherapy techniques to improve their therapy
work with clients (as well as how to use Therapeutic
Photography activities in non-therapy applications
to stimulate personal growth and insight, activate
social change, strengthen communities -- and for qualitative
and community-based research).
*For
example, in the past three years she has conducted
major professional PhotoTherapy training events in
England, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Italy, the United
States, and Canada (and will be teaching and lecturing
in Mexico in November of 2008 [click here for
details], and possibly Japan in 2009 [contact
her directly for more about this]) -- and has given
briefer workshops and presentations in
other countries; ex: Scotland).
In 2004 she gave the Inaugural Address for
the first meeting of the Finnish PhotoTherapy Association, and she is
the invited "Opening Plenary Speaker" for the "International
Conference on PhotoTherapy and Therapeutic Photography" in Finland
this June (2008).
Long
considered the "world authority" on PhotoTherapy,
Judy currently continues to consult, lecture, mentor,
and train professionals in using these
techniques
to improve their therapy or counseling practice. She
frequently accepts invitations to give Keynote or Plenary
presentations, introductory workshops, or longer trainings,
in conjunction with Psychology, Counseling,
Family Therapy, Art Therapy, or other professional
conferences or events -- and also accepts contracts to
provide training for therapists and counselors of agencies
and hospitals, as well as for private individualized
training on-site at the PhotoTherapy Centre and elsewhere. |
