LIVING STORY
Juliet Bruce, PhD
Ways to Work with Me
Online
Monthly Story Sanctuaries focused on specific themes. This is an excellent and affordable way to experience my unique and effective approach and to connect with resonant community.
Tuesday, October 15 - Take a fresh and regenerative look at depression -- The Firebird: Depression as Initiation.
Tuesday, October 29 - Healing Our Broken World -- Story Facilitation for Changemakers
FREE
Register at julietbrucephd@gmail.com
Monthly Story Sanctuaries focused on specific themes. This is an excellent and affordable way to experience my unique and effective approach and to connect with resonant community.
Tuesday, October 15 - Take a fresh and regenerative look at depression -- The Firebird: Depression as Initiation.
Tuesday, October 29 - Healing Our Broken World -- Story Facilitation for Changemakers
FREE
Register at julietbrucephd@gmail.com
In coming months, I will again be offering Story Sanctuaries for:
FIRST STEP TO WORKING WITH ME: REGISTER FOR A LOW-COST STORY SANCTUARY.
- Stories for Health and Well-Being
- Caregivers;
- Cancer and other Serious Illness Survivors;
- People going through tough emotional times;
- Stories across the life span, for people at major thresholds, such as birth, marriage, entering assisted living or preparing for their own or a loved one's death.
FIRST STEP TO WORKING WITH ME: REGISTER FOR A LOW-COST STORY SANCTUARY.
OR
TAKE ME UP ON MY OFFER OF A COMPLIMENTARY ONLINE "DISCOVER YOUR STORY" SESSION. WRITE ME AT julietbrucephd@gmail.com to set up a time.
STEP TWO: TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS AMAZING INTRODUCTORY DEAL: a private 3-session online package focusing on where you are right now and what you need to go forward. $300.
In this arrangement, I work with you in a similar way to my in-person sessions. We'll work to viscerally understand your present situation by deconstructing it into story elements: environment, characters, yearnings, conflicts, any relevant backstory, and together re-frame your situation into a story format that can show you various options for going forward to greater well-being, love, abundance, and fulfillment.
STEP 3: ENGAGE MORE DEEPLY: SIGN UP FOR MY WRITE OF PASSAGE GROUP (SEE WRITE OF PASSAGE PAGE) OR INDIVIDUAL ONLINE WRITE OF PASSAGE
IN-PERSON SESSIONS
FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS IN MY MIDTOWN MANHATTAN OFFICE, OR IF NECESSARY, ANOTHER LOCATION.
SINGLE SESSION for caregivers, families, and loved ones facing a major threshold or nearing the end of their life. $275.
There are times in our lives when nothing matters more than healing or affirming our connections with other people. Storytelling is one of the most effective ways to reach out for life, for celebration, and for peace, and to give back love through listening.
If you or your loved one is ill or incapacitated, I will come to you. Otherwise, we will meet in my office.
6 in-person individual sessions. In my office on 34th St. -$1,200 prepaid or by installments.
In this basic counseling arrangement, I work with you to find the subtext and back story of your life -- the one that is reflected in the environments in which you choose to live and work, the people you attract into your life, the situations that repeat -- and to find the new and truer story that wants to come forth.
In a session, you may draw or dance your story before finding the right words, as it is comfortable and appropriate for you. We may work with a particular story or film that resonates, or take a museum tour together to break through blocks by finding stories your favorite paintings tell you. Or you may prefer to talk directly about your situation, knowing that I bring the fresh and expansive perspective of story.
For people signed up for my 6- and 12-session packages, I offer Metropolitan Museum tours ("Stories Paintings Tell") for an extra fee.
12 in-person sessions.
You may find it useful to do 6 weekly sessions, with 6 bi-weekly or monthly follow-up sessions. In person $2,400 pre-paid or by installments.
This arrangement allows tie for you to absorb and integrate your past, present, and future stories. As your right path emerges through this creative process, you will be able to live with greater intention, effectiveness, and enjoyment. Seemingly intractable problems will loosen their hold on your life. Your spirit will be revived.
STEP TWO: TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS AMAZING INTRODUCTORY DEAL: a private 3-session online package focusing on where you are right now and what you need to go forward. $300.
In this arrangement, I work with you in a similar way to my in-person sessions. We'll work to viscerally understand your present situation by deconstructing it into story elements: environment, characters, yearnings, conflicts, any relevant backstory, and together re-frame your situation into a story format that can show you various options for going forward to greater well-being, love, abundance, and fulfillment.
STEP 3: ENGAGE MORE DEEPLY: SIGN UP FOR MY WRITE OF PASSAGE GROUP (SEE WRITE OF PASSAGE PAGE) OR INDIVIDUAL ONLINE WRITE OF PASSAGE
6 sessions. If you have taken the group Write of Passage course, I can continue to work with you to deepen your experiential understanding of the subtext and backstory of your life -- the
story that's reflected in the
environments you choose to live in or create around you, the people you
attract into your life, the situations that repeat -- and to find the new story that wants to come forth. $750 prepaid.
IN-PERSON SESSIONS
FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS IN MY MIDTOWN MANHATTAN OFFICE, OR IF NECESSARY, ANOTHER LOCATION.
SINGLE SESSION for caregivers, families, and loved ones facing a major threshold or nearing the end of their life. $275.
There are times in our lives when nothing matters more than healing or affirming our connections with other people. Storytelling is one of the most effective ways to reach out for life, for celebration, and for peace, and to give back love through listening.
If you or your loved one is ill or incapacitated, I will come to you. Otherwise, we will meet in my office.
Couples session for restoring the strength of your love. $275.
Long-term relationships that endure life's many challenges may grow stale not from lack of love, but rather lack of curiosity about our partner. We tell ourselves a habitual story about who they are, making it impossible for them (or ourselves, for that matter) to grow. This session will help you remember your best moments together and facilitate your own inner wisdom about how to renew your love.
6 in-person individual sessions. In my office on 34th St. -$1,200 prepaid or by installments.
In this basic counseling arrangement, I work with you to find the subtext and back story of your life -- the one that is reflected in the environments in which you choose to live and work, the people you attract into your life, the situations that repeat -- and to find the new and truer story that wants to come forth.
In a session, you may draw or dance your story before finding the right words, as it is comfortable and appropriate for you. We may work with a particular story or film that resonates, or take a museum tour together to break through blocks by finding stories your favorite paintings tell you. Or you may prefer to talk directly about your situation, knowing that I bring the fresh and expansive perspective of story.
For people signed up for my 6- and 12-session packages, I offer Metropolitan Museum tours ("Stories Paintings Tell") for an extra fee.
12 in-person sessions.
You may find it useful to do 6 weekly sessions, with 6 bi-weekly or monthly follow-up sessions. In person $2,400 pre-paid or by installments.
This arrangement allows tie for you to absorb and integrate your past, present, and future stories. As your right path emerges through this creative process, you will be able to live with greater intention, effectiveness, and enjoyment. Seemingly intractable problems will loosen their hold on your life. Your spirit will be revived.
Camille Pissarro, "Flowering Plum Tree, Eragny." 1894. It's always Spring in the Story Zone, the place of possibilities and new beginnings!
Counseling for Creative and Meaningful Change
I use an ancient healing story process, adapted to modern realities, to facilitate the emergence of new internal stories when the old ones no longer serve you.
My clients are people in transition, who have had traditional therapy and who are not dealing with behavioral or serious mental health issues. If you are dealing with more severe conditions, I will refer you to a trusted colleague.
While it's not necessary to be an actual writer or artist, I do my best work with people who are willing to engage in a creative process with me.
Please feel free to take advantage of my offer of a free phone or online session to explore whether my approach is right for you.
If we decide to work together, you may address old issues again. But you will also know that you are being held within a compassionate narrative structure that is the scaffold of your new and happier life, and that you are on a journey of self-realization.
Anything that occurs in our sessions will be confidential.
I work on a self-pay basis. In certain cases I offer a sliding scale.
Cancellation policy: If you find it necessary to cancel your session, please do so at least 24 hours in advance, or you will be charged for that session.
