The Living Process. Practices in Experience and Existence

Forms of Therapeutic Experience, with Robert Lee on The Living Process

The Living Process. Practices in Experience and Existence

Show Notes

Robert Lee. Forms of Therapeutic Experience The Living Process, Episode 57 with Greg Madison In episode 57 I welcome Dr Robert Lee, a longtime member of the Focusing Community and innovator in Focusing Oriented Therapy. Robert and I discuss his model of Changing the Unchangeable and Domain Focusing as well as his idea that Changes Groups could become a form of group psychotherapy. He has a wealth of experience leading to fascinating innovations in practice. Episode 57 Forms of Therapeutic Experience: https://youtu.be/5AoYd2vVgwU The Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/TLP YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQL #Bodytherapy #Experientialpractice #Awareness #Somaticwork #authenticity #bodymind #focusingorientedtherapy #presence #trauma #existentialism #experiential #Gendlin #focusing #thelivingprocess #person-centred #somatichealing #psychotherapy #FeltSense #Consciousness Robert Lee, Ph.D. is a Focusing innovator and an international leader in developing Focusing trainers and therapists. Robert is a licensed psychologist and developed Changing the Unchangeable through Domain Focusing— for students and clients. In psychotherapy, he has developed special methods for using Focusing with anxiety and depression and with couple and group psychotherapy. For many years Robert served on the board for a consortium of humanistic and transpersonal graduate psychology programs, CDPP, which was inspired by Clark Moustakas, a close colleague of Eugene Gendlin.

More from The Living Process. Practices in Experience and Existence

Oct 2, 2026

When the Body Leads in Therapy, with Helene Brenner and Larry Letich on The Living Process. Episode 56. Hosted by Greg Madison This episode is a rich conversation with Larry Letich and Helene Brenner about their new book, When You Let the Body Lead: Embodied Healing and Change with Contemporary Focusing-Oriented Therapy. We discuss their contemporary approach to describing and teaching Focusing Therapy, presenting Gendlin’s work alongside neuroscience, trauma theory, attachment, emotion-focused approaches, and Inner Relationship Focusing. We discuss their journey into Focusing and their hopes for the book to finally mark a place for FOT as a central contemporary somatic form of psychotherapy.

Sep 6, 2026

Kati kimchi. Episode 55. The Source of Sexual Healing. In this episode we discuss the mysterious absence of sexuality in the writing and teaching of Focusing and other embodied and contemplative practices. We speak about how to safely integrate these discussions into teaching, practice, and therapy. We touch on the deeply ambivalent relationship we have with sexual desire: on the one hand, we long to feel connected to it, and on the other, we are often afraid of its intensity and the fire it can awaken. We question what 'healthy sexuality' is and how to deal with erotic feelings in therapy. Episode 55 - https://youtu.be/mDyF6YwAofkThe Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/TLP YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQLAbout me:Kati Kimchi. Is a certified Focusing coordinator helping and guiding individuals and couples on their personal and sexual growth journeys for over fifteen years. She has studied mindfulness, trauma therapy, couples therapy, family constellation, and developed the S.H.I.F.T methodology for sexual healing in Focusing therapy. She teaches and sees clients in her private clinic.This is a link to her book and her November online course on her website: https://www.focusing-sexuality.com/en/על-התמקדות-ומיניות-הספרThe Living Process is available on Youtube and all podcast platforms. #Focusing #Gendlin #mindfulness #buddhist #Bodytherapy #experientiallearning #Awareness #Somaticwork #Zenmeditation #bodymind #shame #couplestherapy #focusingorientedtherapy #presence #trauma #conflict #sexualtherapy #sexuality #internalfamilysystems

Aug 16, 2026

The Self-Sensing of Life with Peter Cheung On The Living Process Episode 54. Host Greg Madison

Aug 7, 2026

Episode 53 of The Living ProcessMay I Exist - First Experiential-Existential Study Day University of Leuven, Belgium. April 24, 2926.Panel Members: Evi Van Mierlo, Sofie Verdegem, Siebrecht Vanhooren and Greg Madison, hosted by: Ruth Marien. Day chaired by: Claude Missiaen. For me, Greg, it is odd to have a long-standing passion for this unique form of psychotherapy and to always feel like an existentialist at Focusing events and as a Focuser at existential events, never quite belonging to either world …. Chatting with Siebrecht many years ago at a conference, I found I finally had a fellow-traveller, and under his direction, now a whole Centre dedicated to this particular instance of FOT (Focusing Oriented Therapy).But of course Experiential-Existential Psychotherapy did not start with us. There were always a handful of therapists who cared about the spirit of existentialism in Gendlin's work and the need for experiential practice in existential therapy. We honour the wonderful work of Mia Leijssen, Germain Lietaer, and Les Todres as well as our close cousins in the world of person-centred counselling and existential-phenomenological therapy. To find more information on Siebrecht Vanhooren, Claude Missiaen, Evi Mierlo, Sofie Verdegem and all their colleagues and students at the Centre for Experiential-Existential Psychotherapy, click below: The Centre for EEP: https://ppw.kuleuven.be/eep/center-for-experiential-existential-psychotherapyThe Study Day 'May I Exist': https://ppw.kuleuven.be/continue/aanbod/mag-ik-bestaan/#programmaAn Introduction to Experiential-Existential Therapy book: https://universityprofessorspress.com/product/carrying-existence-forward/Episode 53 May I Exist?: https://youtu.be/57OveC0vHaIThe Living Process - all episodes and podcast links: https://www.londonfocusing.com/the-living-process/TLP YouTube video channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0TgN6iVu3n9d9q2l43z1xBMYY3p9FQLThe Living Process is available on Youtube and all podcast platforms. Transcripts are also available on each platform. #Bodytherapy #Experientialpractice #Awareness #Somaticwork #authenticity #bodymind #focusingorientedtherapy #presence #trauma #existentialism #experiential #Gendlin #focusing #thelivingprocess #person-centred #somatichealing #psychotherapy #leuven #siebrechtvanhooren #experiential-existentialtherapy

Jul 25, 2026

Presence in the Mindful Moment. Serge Prengel on The Living Process. Episode 52. Host Greg Madison

See all episodes →