About Radhule
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Phone:
+1 (805) 455-6205
Email:
radhule@gmail.com
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Radhule Weininger, Ph.D MD
Radhule is a clinical psychologist and teacher of Buddhist meditation and Buddhist psychology. She is the co-founder and guiding teacher of the non-profit, Mindful Heart Programs which offers a safe refuge for meditation and education programs in mindfulness, meditation, and nature connection in the Santa Barbara area. Prior to its closing, Radhule was the resident teacher of mindfulness practice at the La Casa de Maria Retreat Center in Santa Barbara, California. She is mentored by Jack Kornfield in her teaching and by Joanna Macy in her interest in Engaged Buddhism. In her Dzogchen practice, she is supported by her mentor Dan Brown, PhD
Radhule has a strong interest in the direct experience of the sacred and how this can inspire our service to others.
Radhule has a full-time psychotherapy office, in which she sees individuals and groups. Integrating psychodynamic, Jungian and Gestalt psychotherapies, she is finding innovative ways to complement Western with Buddhist psychology. For many years Radhule guides an ongoing dream group, as well as an ongoing mindfulness psychotherapy group.
Radhule teaches a variety of seminars, from half-day to weekend –to weeklong retreats, in which she makes Buddhist Mindfulness and Compassion practices relevant to 21st-century modern life concerns. Carefully, yet lightly guided meditations make mindfulness meditation accessible to all of us.
Radhule spearheaded with her husband Michael Kearney, MD the “Solidarity and Compassion Project,” whose vision is to nourish and sustain us in our attempt to support those who are left vulnerable in our society while discerning the values that we want to go forward with an attitude of integrity and caring.
My Story:
Like many, I came to this profession through my own life story as a “wounded healer.” My journey started when I went to medical school in Germany more than three decades ago.
After a serious physical illness and a break from medical school, I ended up studying Buddhist meditation in Sri Lanka in 1980-1981. After graduation from medical school, I immigrated to the USA. By the early 1990’s I had become a clinical psychologist in California. I began integrating Buddhist with western psychology, as I found that this worked well for 20th/21st-century suffering. For more than a decade I worked as a consultant, assisting people wounded by religion in authority. Those times helped me to become aware of how tender our spiritual longing is, and how this longing can be confounded by harsh dogma and misuse of power.
.After practicing psychotherapy for seven years in San Francisco and Berkeley, I moved to Santa Barbara, where I opened a private practice in the mid-1990s.
Nowadays I see clients with a variety of concerns, including depression and anxiety, many of whom seek help in times of relationship crises and major life changes. I work with those spiritually homeless and disappointed, who want to find their individual sense of spiritual connectedness. I work with many of those, who work with others who are suffering, with those who are social activists or teachers. I also specialize in seeing clients from international and minority backgrounds, helping them to bridge cultural and religious identities.
I draw upon an eclectic background, ranging from client-centered and Gestalt to psychodynamic and Jungian orientations. I have been studying mindfulness meditation, both as a personal practice and as a tool in psychotherapy, for 40 years. I have been exploring how dreamwork (dream-tending, embodied dream-tending, intuitive associations) and mindfulness meditation can work in complementary ways, deepening the therapeutic process. I have noticed how the development of meditation practices has helped my clients to reduce their anxiety and embrace a fuller sense of self.
My teaching is mentored for the past 18 years by Meditation teacher and psychologist Jack Kornfield, Ph.D. and for the past 2 years also by psychologist and Dzogchen/ Mahamudra meditation teacher Dan Brown, Ph.D. I also studied for over 10 years with Dzogchen meditation teacher Alan Wallace, Ph.D.and took the cultivating emotional balance training with him and Paul Ekman, Ph.D. in 2011. I teach mindfulness meditation and dreamwork in many different settings both nationally and internationally.
Many of my clients come to me because I approach psychotherapy with a solid psychotherapeutic foundation grounded in both Western and Buddhist psychotherapy.
I teach frequently with my husband, Michael Kearney, MD an author, speaker, and palliative care physician. Michaelkearneymd.com. Michael and I founded the non-profit Mindful Heart Programs 5 years ago, mindfulheartprograms.org, which provides a meditation platform, retreats, and seminars, as well as mindfulness in school programs and ongoing programs for seniors. We are continuously creating new ways of being helpful in our beautiful and wounded world.
Patricia Zadeh
A psychologist who draws on the contribution of the many approaches to help clients on a journey through self-discovery, utilizing their own unique traits to grow, heal, change, and develop their personal potential. Patricia helps guide clients to develop to their improved self, find meaning while emphasizing their concerns and being aware of the here and now. She utilizes an integrative approach in her practice, blending humanistic, psychoanalytic, and behavioral techniques while incorporating mindfulness skills, and tailors her treatment according to her individual client’s needs.
She has acquired a Master’s and a Doctorate Degree in Clinical Psychology, with a focus on forensic psychology from Antioch University, both products of a pursue to follow her lifelong dream and intrinsic motivation to become a psychologist. It started simply with a curiosity and desire to understand human behavior and help others. She has experience working with the most challenging of mental health issues throughout the years, she has worked with chronic mental illness, addiction, trauma, abuse, as well as patients with chronic and terminal illnesses. Some of the organizations she has been associated and worked with include the United Nations, Red Cross, Cancer Center of Santa Barbara, and nursing homes, assisted living and rehabilitation facilities in the Los Angeles and Ventura County.
Patricia is a compassionate and caring professional who has a hunger for continued learning. As a student counselor, she gained valuable experience with younger adults and later became a professor of Psychology, where she developed a new passion. Patricia has experience with diverse cultures and backgrounds, she is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish. Patricia is also a disaster response team member of the SBCPA (Santa Barbara Psychological Association) and SBRN (Santa Barbara Response Network), a Trauma Resilience facilitator, SOS (Signs of Suicide Program), as well as PFA (Psychological First Aid) certified.
She is currently being trained by her supervisor Dr. Radhule Weininger to become a facilitator in Buddhist meditation. Patricia specializes in working with anxiety, depression, adjustment, gender issues, trauma, loss and grief, relationship and other issues related to teenagers, adults, older adults, and families.