Marion Gertrud Mensing – Trauma Therapist and Author of "The Grand Mother's Journey"

 My Background:

• My name is Marion Gertrud Mensing but I am also known as Marion Harenbrock.
• I earned a Magna Cum Laude Doctorate in Natural Sciences from the University of Muenster in Germany in 1990.
• After that I worked for more than two decades in different roles in the financial services sector in Germany, Luxembourg and—finally—in Ireland. 
• In Ireland, in my late 40s, I became painfully aware that there was no sense of meaning in my life.
• A five-weeks pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago in 2012 (it never ended) and subsequent introductions and attunements to Reiki culminated in a challenging and deeply transformative crisis, catapulting me out of my old life.
• I found new direction in 2016: I began working part-time in Irish residential rehabilitation for addiction and studied Counselling and Psychotherapy.
• I qualified as a Psychotherapist with an I.A.C.P. accredited Diploma in May 2020

First we must fall, and then recover from that fall—and both are the mercy of God—Julian of Norwich

• Living in the beautiful countryside of West Cork, my focus moved to Online-Therapy. In June 2020, I graduated from the Online Therapy Institute as a Certified Online Therapist and set up my private therapy practice.
  
• I now draw on various approaches: Transpersonal Psychology, Psychosynthesis, Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Trauma-Informed Practice, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy, Jungian Psychology, Energy Therapy, Breath Work.

Further Education:

• PGCert Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology—With Distinction (Alef Trust / Liverpool John Moores University)
• PGCert Traumatic Stress Studies (Bessel van der Kolk, Ruth Lanius, & al., Trauma Research Foundation)
• First Class Honours BSc Counselling & Psychotherapy Degree (Middlesex University, London)
  

Specific Trainings in Main Approaches:

• Transpersonal Therapy
  • ongoing: Transpersonal Therapist Training (The Transpersonal Institute, Dunderry Park, Ireland)—'transpersonal' means beyond ego, touching experiences beyond the ordinary consciousness, "concerned with humanity’s highest potential, and with the recognition, understanding, and realisation of unitive, spiritual, and transcendent states of consciousness" (Martin Duffy).
• Psychosynthesis
  • 10-months Psychosynthesis Professional Certificate Course (Alef Trust, Philip Carr-Gomm)—Roberto Assagioli (1888-1974) coined the term 'psychosynthesis' for a naturally emerging process towards wholeness in the human psyche where personality elements are guided and finally amalgamated by the (higher) Self.
• Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR):
  • Advanced Training: Working With Dynamic Orienting Tension in Deep Brain Reorienting With Insights From the Alexander Technique (Frank Corrigan & Martin Warner) 
  • Certificate in Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) for Trauma, Dissociative and Personality Disorders (DBR Italia):
    (1) Neurobiology of Trauma and Dissociation (Frank Corrigan & Daniela Rabellino),
    (2) The Theoretical Model of Deep Brain Reorienting and the Treatment of Personality Disorders and Complex PTSD (Frank Corrigan),
    (3) DBR and Treatment of Complex Dissociative Disorders (Frank Corrigan & Costanzo Frau)
  • DBR Level 3: Applications in Dissociative Disorders and Other Complex Trauma Disorders With Practicums (Frank Corrigan & al.).
  • DBR Level 2: Advanced Training For Attachment Shock and Wounding With Practicums (Frank Corrigan & al.)
  • DBR Level 1: Basic Training With Practicums (Frank Corrigan & al.)

• Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) : 
  • IFS Masterclass: Healing the Trauma That Surrounds Medical Syndromes (Lissa Rankin, Richard Schwartz)
  • IFS Workshop: Shamanism & Psychotherapy (Ann Sinko, Robert Falconer)
  • IFS Workshops: Compassion for Addictive Process (Cece Sykes)
  • IFS Workshops: Befriending Difficult Protectors (Mike Elkin)
  • IFS Workshops: The Further Reaches of IFS—Unattached Burdens (UBs) and Guides (Robert Falconer)
  • IFS Workshops: Embracing Our Legacy Burdens and Heirlooms (Osnat Arbel)
  • International IFS Practitioner Training - Level 1 (IFS Institute, Poland, Osnat Arbel)

Other Specific Trainings: 

• Workshop Series Compassionate Inquiry Approach To Mental And Physical Illness (Gabor Maté)
• Diploma in Sex Addiction Counselling (CPCAB Award, UK Level 5)
• CPD Workshop Understanding Infertility & Fertility Treatments (IACP, Miriam Finnerty)

Special Interests:

• Psychotherapy has become a late vocation for me, and I have a special interest in Carl Jung's unmediated original work. 
  
  
• I am also following the growing body of research about indigenous plant medicines and how they stimulate qualitative changes to states of consciousness—with a special interest in the potential benefits of plant medicines
  • in the treatment of psychological problems
  • in the treatment of physical health problems
  • as a catalyst for creative problem solving
  • as a catalyst for spiritual insight 
  • for personal growth
  • especially combined/integrated/compared with IFS Therapy, see e.g. here

• In addition, I just published a book: The Grand Mother's Journey: A Scientific Analysis of Spirituality, the Key to Human Growth.
• I am in the process of writing a second book: Outsourcing Humanity? Awaken before it is too late.
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