Joan Lavender is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with over thirty years experience working with people with all kinds of problems. Her interest in envy grew out of her personal experience acknowledging feelings of envy as well as fear of being envied. She observed a similar struggle in many of her clients whose lives improved as they found compassion for their green-eyed monsters. Joan went on to design envy workshops, presentations and was recently included in a documentary about mean girls.
Joan’s mission is to help you heal your envy by developing compassion for your own green-eyed monster. “I got interested in envy years ago, when it got interested in me. When I took my interest out into the world I realized that I had touched a nerve! I observed that people complain about the other guy’s envy, but rarely face their own. I realized that envy might be even harder to talk about than sex or money. But I have learned that most people actually feel relief when they can begin the process of speaking about their own envy or fear of being envied without feeling ashamed of themselves. Each of us is unique, with a different life and situation. Yet each of us has the remarkable ability to grow beyond ourselves. And we can heal our envy.”
Joan Lavender, Psy. D., is a clinical psychologist and contemporary psychotherapist with over thirty years experience working with New Yorkers to create unique successful balanced lifestyles. Her work includes Experiential Focusing, a psychotherapy process shown to correlate with positive life changes, enhanced self-esteem and the experience of integration and wholeness. Joan is a native New Yorker and has written on body image, eating disorders, loneliness, envy and other challenges of contemporary life.
You can read more about Joan and her approach to psychotherapy at www.joanlavender.com
