About Igor Giusti PhD

Psychotherapist and life coach: Specialized in finding effective ways to help you overcome your challenges and realize what you want in life.

Strong Background in Mindfulness-Based Approaches

Transpersonal, Gestalt, Psychodynamic and Body/Somatic-Centered Therapy

Trilingual English/Italian/French

Igor Giusti PhD, Transpersonal Psychotherapist

I have a colorful and diverse biography. I am originally from Italy and grew up speaking Italian. I have worked as a broker, I have worked as a driving instructor, and also provided elder care. Then 20 years ago I moved to the US and became interested in psychotherapy and spirituality, which led me to specialize in this field.

In term of my practice, I am a psychotherapist who views psychology and spirituality as two interwoven aspects of the healing process. I believe that psychological tools can greatly benefit spiritual practice, and spirituality can greatly benefit psychological work. Ultimately, in my work, the two are not distinct.

Because what works for one person does not necessarily work for another, my approach aims to customize the most appropriate and effective therapy and spiritual approach to address your unique needs. In my relationship with you I will create a personal, warm, and professional holding environment that will allow you to feel at ease, which is essential for successful therapy to occur.

My therapeutic orientation is Transpersonal and Body Centered: a holistic view of the human experience, which includes the mind, body, and spiritual elements of the human experience. I believe that true healing can occur by looking at the person as a whole. My work is also informed by Gestalt, Hakomi, Mindfulness, Somatic Therapy, the Diamond Approach, the wisdom traditions of the East, and Trauma Therapy. I use these different modalities because each of them adds a complementary perspective to the understanding of the human being.

In my doctoral dissertation, I researched various spiritual states experienced in the body, which transform our common physical experience into a spiritual physical experience. I researched this subject in the eight paths to enlightenment, or union with God: Hatha Yoga, neo-Advaita Vedanta, the Integral Yoga of Śri Aurobindo, Theravada Buddhism, Vajrayana Buddhism, the Christian mysticism of St. Teresa of Ávila, the Zohar in Jewish Mysticism, and the Diamond Approach. For the interested reader, the title of the dissertation is The Transformation of the Body through Spiritual Somatic Liquid-Like Phenomena in the Path to Enlightenment, or Union with God, in Eight Mystical Paths: A Comparative Analysis, by Igor Giusti. Due to my interest on the psychological and spiritual health of the body, in my therapeutic work I add the psychological bodily dimension of healing. This is because mental illness affects both the mind and the body. It affects the mind in obvious ways, and it affects the body by sometimes causing a person to disconnecting from the body, becoming numb to its experience, or by experiencing psycho-somatic pain such as painful bodily tensions, overwhelming emotions and sensations that cause body pain, or a lack of capacity to feel emotions and bodily sensations.

My clients are diverse in terms of race, socio-economic status, age, disability, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, political affiliation, and religion. Everyone is welcome!