bio

Bio

Francine Juhasz received her Ph.D. in psychology from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and taught sexual education at Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio, while working on her dissertation. She then taught psychology courses full-time with the Jesuits at John Carroll University and later full-time at Cañada College in Redwood City, California, before leaving academia for Europe .

In Europe she spent more than two decades counseling individuals and couples as a psychotherapist, and teaching groups in France, Spain and the Netherlands using the principles of QiGong and creative visualization, astrological energy maps and Jungian archetypes. She practiced dream interpretation extensively, and expanded that language to include the unsuspected nuances of the symbolism of waking daily life. Her familiarity with the intimate details of the inner lives and peculiarities of hundreds of women was vital to her adapting ancient Taoist techniques and gearing them to the vast market of women interested in sexual fulfillment, self-improvement and self-discovery.

In her counseling sessions, she uses use an eclectic approach, selecting what is valid or useful from a variety of available theories, methods, and practices, including her own wide experience. She has developed a non-resistance-forming method of diagnostic testing to give her deep insight into the complexities of the person with whom she is working. This is an astrological energy chart combined with Jungian archetypes she has adapted and uses as an excellent psycho-therapeutic tool to provide diagnostic and treatment clues.

In addition to being a psychotherapist, Francine is a Reiki and QiGong practitioner, a holistic astrologer, and member of the American Federation of Astrologers.

Francine became a Denver resident with her Dutch husband, coach/trainer/ performer and Kripalu yoga teacher Hans Houtman, M.A., at the beginning of January 2007. At present she shares insights and gives classes and workshops in alternate uses of the imagination in facilitating contact with valuable, yet dormant, inner resources – and in aiding individuals to achieve sexual satisfaction with or without a partner. In addition, she teaches counselors and psychotherapists how to use astrological charts for greater effectiveness in their counseling sessions, and offers classes in synchronicity (she has published eleven short stories in literary journals demonstrating novel techniques in creating synchronicity.) She counsels her international clients and those in the U.S. living outside the greater Denver/Boulder area via the telephone and cds.

Francine has also published thirteen short stories in literary journals in New Zealand, Australia and the U.S. , championing the inner alchemy she teaches. One of these, “Paris a la Fantastique,” can be found on the website Moondance: Celebrating Creative Women. On their cover, The Theosophical Quarterly called Francine’s short story, “Uncle Joe,” Best Metaphysical Fiction of 1999 and published it in twenty-five countries. This endorsement was followed by praise from Dr. Ian Irvine, coeditor of Australia ’s literary journal The Animist, for Francine’s “A New Twist,” which he published in the Literary Commentary section of that journal in July of 1999 because he considered it an important development as an art form.

Francine is also an accomplished artist. She has held joint exhibitions together with her husband in Germany, Spain , the Netherlands and New York. Her abstract acrylic paintings show an unusual feel for movement and complex energy patterns, and have also been exhibited in solo as well as group exhibitions in Bergen and in Amsterdam, where she was regularly a member of the Open Studios Tour. Her art studio in the Netherlands formed part of the prestigious Voorbeeld in the Baarsjes where she was involved in numerous activities together with other Amsterdam artists. She has also exhibited in Woodstock, New York, and will continue to do so in Colorado and New Mexico. She is a member of the Art Club of Ibiza, and the Woodstock Artists Association.

Contact me at francinejuhasz@comcast.net

Tel. 303-955-4186