Simon d'Orsogna, Psychotherapy & Coaching

22/08/2025

“I am often asked for clarifications about my psychotherapy analytical method.
I can’t answer this in unanimously: therapy is different in any case.
When a doctor says to strictly follow this method, I have my doubts about the effectiveness of the therapy... As far as possible, I treat each patient as an individual case, because the solution to the problem is always individual: general rules can only be established cm grano salis (with a grain of salt)!
Of course, a doctor has to be familiar with the so-called “methods”; but he has to be careful not to apply them in a stereotypical way.
Theoretical premises should be applied with caution.
Maybe they’re valid today, tomorrow they’ll be others.
The important thing is that I put myself in front of the patient as a human being against another human being. ”
Carl Gustav Jung

22/08/2025

Dr. Dan Siegel in Melbourne for the Australian Childhood Foundation Conference

22/08/2025

From my friend and colleague Niall Geoghegan, Psy.D., therapy - a new online learning series for those serious about Experiential Therapies ...
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"I started reading Experiential Therapies for Treating Trauma (Routledge, 2024) earlier this year and found it to be so densely packed with rich clinical insight that I couldn't absorb it all in one reading. But I realized that if a group of us were to spend a month reading each chapter, and then delve even deeper in direct conversation with its author, it could give us an unprecedented understanding of these powerful modalities.
I want to personally invite you to our new Experiential Therapies Expert Webinar Series because I truly believe our new “Book Club Meets Master Class” format will be such a fun and powerful way for us to all learn about experiential therapy together and it's a once in a lifetime opportunity that I'd love to have you be part of!
That’s what we’ll be doing each month in the new Expert Webinar Series that Sam Robinson and I are hosting:
First we'll all read one chapter carefully and in depth,
then we’ll meet for a 90-minute live Zoom session with the author to examine their case example so as to learn practical techniques that we can actually apply with our clients,
and we’ll have opportunities to ask the author specific questions in real time.
Registering gives you lifetime access to the session recording, so you can revisit or catch up on your own schedule. You can pick and choose among the 15 modality offerings.
The kickoff session is coming up soon:
Psychodrama with Haydn Briggs on Friday, September 12th from noon - 1:30 (Eastern US timezone)
Cost USD $39-29/session depending on the bundle.
I really hope you’ll join us! I encourage you to register early so as to have time to read the chapter in depth before we meet.
Learn More and Register Here ☞
https://www.experiential-psychotherapies.com/live-webinar-series

*** Join just one session, a handful, or all of them — it's up to you!
*** Earn 1 CE credit per session (for eligible U.S.-based clinicians) courtesy of Deep Eddy Psychotherapy
👉 More Info and Register here for the September 12 kickoff session
https://www.experiential-psychotherapies.com/live-webinar-series
Warmly,
Niall Geoghegan, Psy.D.
Founder, Experiential Psychotherapy Institute
Licensed Psychologist CA-21583"
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Live Webinar Series with Master Practitioners

19/08/2025

19/08/2025

From Pema's book "When Things Fall Apart", her best seller!
https://pemachodronfoundation.org/product/when-things-fall-apart-book/

12/08/2025

Brazilian cartoonist, Carlos Latuff

12/08/2025

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in seven pounds of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Médecins Sans Frontières / MSF in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

05/08/2025

I echo Steve's words - THANKYOU WITH ALL MY HEART TO ALL WHO WERE THERE. It brought tears to my eyes that so many people care in this peaceful but resolute way. May peace return.

19/07/2025

Book: When We Were Orphans https://amzn.to/40hiIIr [ad]

Art: 'Ophelia', 1984 by John William Waterhouse

01/04/2025

Boys face a barrage of toxic influences. We talk to sixth-formers about the pressures and joys they experience

25/12/2024

Fifteen years ago, I heard Mary Oliver read her poetry at a college convocation. During the Q&A, someone asked, "What is the purpose of beauty?" Her remarkable answer is below...

MO’s words contain a quiet challenge in a world where we wake up every day to news that's far from beautiful and is often plug-ugly, news that may leave us feeling grief, or anger, or fear.

In the face of all that, simple acts of kindness and generosity still have the power to transform lives—acts that say, without words, "Thank you for the gift of beauty that can always be found in nature and human nature."

As Rumi says, “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

Memo to Self: find something of beauty in the world around you, and find some way to say give thanks with your work and your life.

P.S. My 10 books are at https://tinyurl.com/mt4sbe7t. The woodcut on which I placed MO's words is by MN artist Nick Wroblewski, whose website is http://tinyurl.com/2bg7hha.

22/12/2024

Learn more deeply the Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) model of psychotherapy through recorded demonstrations with commentary from Simon d'Orsogna, Certified IFS L3 and IFS Institute's Partner in the ANZ region. Commence with either this Series I (4 individual sessions). Series II (one client over 4 sessions as brief therapy), or, Series III (4 single sessions) in the Applied IFS Demo workshops series. 6-8pm Syd/Melb time.
All use IFS as the lens or central spine of the work, offering practical modelling and application through an experiential orientation. In vivo learning with discussion through full sessions. Assumes basic IFS concepts and language. Fee AUD$350.
No recordings will be made available. 10% discount enrol in all 3 series.

Continue to immerse yourself in the Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) model of psychotherapy through demonstrations with commentary.