Posts by Relationship Therapy Judye Hess Ph. D.

All companionship can consist only in the strengthening of two neighboring solitudes, whereas everything that one is wont to call giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to come close to each other,…

Judye Hess, now professor Emerita, was a core faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies,teaching Couples Counseling and Family Dynamics for 30+ years. She has a private practice in Berkeley,CA.  where she sees couples and families, almost exclusively.  Judye is the co-author of “Dual Dwelling Duos: An Alternative for Long-term Relationships” which was…