Dr. George Viney, Psy.D., MFT


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Find the Path within Your Path...



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Yes, find the path within your path, even when you're lost. Even if you're not. But as you go, or wander, or seek, you and I can walk together and find the path that's seeking you!


How? Good question. And every question has a quest hiding in it. Right there in the very word!


So we set out...The adventure begins. The story starts: Once upon a time! And this time, we go within to see what your psyche is imagining, hear what your soul is dreaming, feel what your heart is longing for...and we stop, brood, incubate, and travel our journey by noticing what questions--you know, the deepest, most important ones--are being asked of you from within, from within your most essential being!


And then...


We await, attune, allow, tend, and enter!


And arriving, we...


Abide.


We await: listen for what the little voice is whispering to you. We quietly, patiently, devotedly await in our sharing and sacred heart-chambers, now filling with sacred Silence, for the epiphanic annunciations of the voice of wisdom and knowing beyond your ego, the voice that knows the higher plan, the greater map, the now-appearing, radiantly lighting up path of your authentic unfolding.


We attune: follow the signs and synchronicities, those meaningful chances that are more than just chance. They are the ones that confirm who you are and will be, how you are healing and awakening, and that let you know you are on the right path, the one being created and meant just for you, so that you will become all that you truly are and all that you are meant to be!


Then we allow: we get our egos out of the way, allow them to serve what is blowing through you as divine inspiration!


And we tend: we tend to the dreams that come to you in the night. Every night your dreams are midwifing your soul, imagining your life, making connections and creating new insights, and showing you paths where you saw none before. Dreams are winged-messengers and we receive them with hospitality, tending to their often unfamiliar speech, poetic language, and hinting guidance. You and I, we tend to your uniquely unfolding process and creativity as these arrive to you, speak to you, and guide you.


And as the path becomes wonderfully revealing, even when it brings trials, sufferings, and struggles, you finally arrive and enter through the gates of your heart, answer and serve your calling, and find the healing and vitalizing imagination that brings you joy, meaning, and purpose!


Then, there, now in here, you will find yourself in your own sacred heart-tabernacle of soul into which that Thou who is greater than all of us can powerfully descend and lovingly abide in you!


Psychotherapy: a sacred ritual of finding the path within the path. The one that is truly, authentically, yours! This is the path with heart! And yours can be one of joy, satisfaction, creativity, imagination, and revelation! Ultimately, this path hiding within our everyday paths is one illuminated by cultivated consciousness, increased heartfulness, and enriched imagination.


It is one poetically, reverently, sacredly, born of love.



"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
-C.G. Jung

If you would like to explore if our meeting might be graced and inwardly authorized, kindly contact me so that we might have a conversation...

Areas of Focus



Aging

Anxiety

Becoming an Elder
Creativity
Depression/Sadness

Divorce
Dreams

Family Concerns

Finding One's Calling

Grief and Bereavement

Individuation
Life Transitions

Loss
Marriage Concerns

Parenting
Relationship Issues

Separation

Self Esteem

Spirituality

Stress

Trauma



Psychotherapy is the Wedding of Psyche with Love...



In the Roman tale of Amor and Psyche, beautiful Psyche must go through four tasks to be reunited with her beloved Amor, the very god of Love.


Psychotherapy as I practice it seeks to help you discover and cultivate your psyche's deepest imaginings.


Psychotherapy as we would engage in it seeks to ignite your love, help you discover and serve your creative passions, what gives you life, by finding and doing what you are called to do, and by learning how Amor inspires you.


Psychotherapy is the sacred initiatory vessel in which we would create the conditions in which your psyche joyfully weds with your love.


When life becomes rote, stuck, and lifeless, your psyche needs igniting imagination to enrich and expand your life, love needs to light your heart's torch so you can find your individuating way, and your tasks need to be made full of creativity and purpose, heartfulness and meaning, through your expanding capacity to love! Then you will be invited to the wedding of Amor and Psyche within!


If you wish, and if they authorize and grace us, I will accompany you there!



The Holy Longing




Tell a wise person, or else keep silent,

because the mass man will mock it right away.

I praise what is truly alive,

what longs to be burned to death.


In the calm water of the love-nights,

where you were begotten, where you have begotten,

a strange feeling comes over you,

when you see the silent candle burning.


Now you are no longer caught in the obsession with darkness,

and a desire for higher love-making sweeps you upward.


Distance does not make you falter.

Now, arriving in magic, flying,

and finally, insane for the light,

you are the butterfly and you are gone.


And so long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth.


-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Translated from the German by Robert Bly



About George Viney




Dr. George Viney is a psychotherapist, poet, magician, storyteller, writer, and author of the forthcoming books: The Fathering Thread & The Protecting Veil, as well as The Wedding of Eros and Psyche.


He has been providing individual, couples, family, and group psychotherapy for over 25 years. Besides his private practice, he has served at-risk and under-privileged youth/families for 20 years as a therapist and as a clinical supervisor in public mental health clinical programs. He has also worked with individuals who deal with chronic mental illness as well as with survivors of torture.


Dr. Viney has a Doctorate as well as a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Originally a graduate of Northwestern University in Communications and Theater, through his varied interests and activities, and primarily through his continued devotion to the art of psychotherapy, he has found that his essential calling is to care for the psyche and reverently attend to her logos, or speech. In other words, his work is to care for the soul in himself, others, and the world.


Dr. George Viney has been a noted speaker for California’s Partnership for Families, the American Society on Aging, the Illinois Psychological Association, LAUSD, and Public Mental Health Agencies. He has performed as a magician for corporate clients such as American Airlines, Hilton Hotels, Panasonic, and similar corporations. As a storyteller, he has entertained students by providing assemblies on storytelling and imagination, as well as offered storytelling workshops for adults in which the psychological meaning of fairy tales and myths are explored in relation to participants' personal journeys. As an actor, he has guest starred on General Hospital and Port Charles. He is a current member of SAG-AFTRA and of the Academy of Magical Arts/The Magic Castle in Hollywood.



Client Focus





Elders

Adults

Couples/Families

College Students​

Graduate Students

Teenagers


Dr. Viney is bilingual: English and Spanish



Types of Therapy





Jungian and Archetypal

Family Systems

Psychodynamic


Dr. Viney is currently providing telehealth sessions

online, as well as conducting phone sessions.



Cost per Session





Individual Therapy: $150/hour

Couples Therapy: $200/hour

Family Therapy: $250/hour

Sliding Scale: yes, based on need/discussion

Pay By: Cash, Check, PayPal


For a free 30 minute consultation, or to schedule an appointment, please call: 1-626-316-6971


Or you can send an email to:

vineygeorge@hotmail,com



Dr. George Viney,
Psy.D.,MFT



License: MFT 84763


Jungian and Archetypal Psychotherapy

130 S. Euclid Avenue
Suite 6
Pasadena, California 91101