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About Dyrian
About Dyrian Benz-Chartrand, Psy.D.
Dr. Dyrian Benz-Chartrand consults to individuals, groups and organizations and presents trainings internationally.
He is the Chairman of the Somatic Psychology Program at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and adjunct faculty member at Antioch University and Pacifica Graduate Institute. Dyrian is the originator and moderator of the S.B. City College Psychology Conferences. He is the founder of Group Field, a systems based method for groups and teams.
He is co-author of To the Core of Your Experience and a co-founder of the Hakomi Institute for experiential-cognitive-mindful therapy, where he taught for over 20 years.
Dyrian also conducts trainings and retreats of renewal internationally for professionals and organizations. He draws on his experience of over 30 years of practicing and teaching therapy and consulting as well as being a student and a teacher of various contemplative, mindful, inner disciplines.
Since 1995 he has been a practitioner, and later a teacher, of the Family Constellations approach developed by Bert Hellinger. Dyrian has been presenting the Constellation approach in workshops, trainings and in University Graduate Courses where he also teaches group process, therapeutic skills and family therapy.
With Bert Hellinger’s support Dyrian is in the process of writing a book on the constellation approach tentatively titled: “Making Love Successful.”
Since the early 1970’s Dr. Benz-Chartrand has intensely pursued two callings. One has been practicing and teaching therapy and consulting.
Simultaneously he has been a practitioner and a teacher of various contemplative, mindful, inner disciplines.
He is also in the process of writing a book together with his wife, JoAnna on Relational Somatic psychology called “Being in the Body”
Dyrian is also the creator of the Certificate Program in Relational Somatic Psychology being taught at both Esalen in Big Sur and at the Open Center in NY in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.
He has been a student of the Diamond Approach Psycho-spiritual work of the Rhidwan school, for over 13 years.
He is in the process of finishing an upcoming book together with his Lifetime partner JoAnna Chartrand Benz called” Being In the Body” A book about Relational Somatic Psychology that includes the spiritual dimension of Essence and Soul.
He is the co-director the Core Dynamics Relational Somatic Institute in Santa Barbara.
Dyrian Benz-Chartrand
805-563-0558
Consulting, Sessions and Training
Consulting Sessions
In this transformational consulting, Dyrian’s work is about the evolution of consciousness and finding essential solutions for life, work and relationship. This work is available for individuals, couples and families.
Individual Consulting Sessions
Fee: Regular Session – 50 minutes: $120.
Sliding Scales available.
Constellation Consulting Sessions
Constellation sessions usually are about 2 to 3 hours long and include any number of family members and/or participants.
Fee: $190 per hour, charged in 1/2 hour segments.
Sliding Scales available.
Training
Trainings are arranged on an individual basis depending on the context and the needs of a team or group.
About JoAnna Chartrand-Benz
JoAnna is a European trained Psycho-Spiritual, Somatic Psychology Educator and has been in private practice since 1980. Her specialty is in Somatically-Based, Transpersonal and Relational Psychology along with trauma work. Principles from the Family Constellation work of Bert Hellinger also strongly influence her work. Her experience and training is varied and comprehensive. Relational aspects, along with the psychodynamics of the ego development are also an important part of her work, whenever appropriate.
Foremost in her own professional training are two distinctive professional certification training programs, each five years long, that she completed in Europe.
1. The Core-Dynamic Psychotherapy Training: Focus on Somatic Psychology, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy, Soul Tending and Transpersonal Psychology.
2. The Bio Dynamic Somatic Psychology Training: Focus on Energy work, Reichian Psychology, Reading the body, following the body, working with self-regulation, and sometimes with therapeutic touch.
She has been a student of the Diamond Approach, a psycho-spiritual approach, that combines western depth psychology with eastern traditions, since 1992 and integrates the concepts and insights of that method in her work.
She practices and co-leads trainings in the Relational Constellations Phenomenological approach, working with trans-generational systemic issues. She works with both individuals and groups with this method. She is co-director & co-trainer of the Relational Constellation Institute of California. (RCIC). JoAnna originally trained with second generation German Constellation Facilitators, along with Bert Hellinger. The Relational Constellation Institute has been giving trainings in Constellation work for over 10 years in Santa Barbara, CA. The RCIC Learning Program, trains participants in the main concepts of Constellation work, and flavors it with a relational accent. We focus a lot on the relational field & address themes like: Intimacy, interrupted reaching out movement, attachment issues, heart/genital split, male/female dichotomies, basic trust, false autonomy, true autonomy, etc. She also brings in the focus on the body - how trauma lodges in the body & needs to be addressed & included in constellation work. Shamanic & native American practices that support connecting with ancestors are included in this training.
She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and has a specialty in Trauma work. She has also been trained in EMDR. She has also done some attachment therapy training in AEDP – Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy with Diana Fosha PsyD. Her specialty in trauma also has a focus on developmental &attachment disruptions. She is an attachment-based practioner.
Her training is in Relational Body-Oriented Psychology, Psychodynamics, Depth Psychology, Object Relations, Self Psychology, Attachment Theory, Gestalt, Imagery, Neo-Reichian Body-Centered Techniques, Bio Dynamic Somatic Psychology, Voice Dialogue, Bonding Therapy, Breathwork, Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experience Trauma Work from Peter Levine, Sandtray Therapy, the Formative Somatic approach of Stanley Keleman, BioSynthesis from David Boadella, Tantra, Transpersonal Psychology, Minfulness, Hakomi, Neuroscience, Hospice care, Death & Bereavement, Dreamwork, Pre & Peri Natal Issues and Relational Constellations.
She is an associate of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, a co-facilitator and the coordinator of the Esalen Embodied Psychotherapy Certificate Program - a Certificate Program in Relational Somatic Psychology given at the
Esalen Institute.
She & Dyrian are the continuity staff at these 5 day segments 6 times a year at Esalen, in Big Sur.
JoAnna Chartrand-Benz has been a European trained Somatic Psychology Educator since 1980 & has been in private practice for over 30 years. She is co-director & co-trainer of the Relational Constellation Institute of California. (RCIOC). JoAnna originally trained with second generation German Constellation Facilitators, along with Bert Hellinger. The Relational Constellation Institute has been giving trainings in Constellation work for over 10 years in Santa Barbara, CA. The RCIOC Learning Program, trains participants in the main concepts of Constellation work, and flavors it with a relational accent. We focus a lot on the relational field & address themes like: Intimacy, interrupted reaching out movement, attachment issues, heart/genital split, male/female dichotomies, basic trust, false autonomy, true autonomy, etc. She also brings in the focus on the body - how trauma lodges in the body & needs to be addressed & included in constellation work. Shamanic & native American practices that support connecting with ancestors are included in this training.
JoAnna has been a student of the Diamond Heart Approach, the psycho-spiritual School of A. H. Almaas, that combines western depth psychology with eastern traditions, since 1992. She includes a lot of psycho-spiritual practices in the Relational Constellation Learning Program, eg. cultivating presence, deepening connection to the knowing field & to the essential self etc..
She is an associate of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, a co-facilitator and the coordinator of the Esalen Embodied Psychotherapy Certificate Program - a Certificate Program in Relational Somatic Psychology given at the
Esalen Institute. Her specialty is in Somatically-Based, Transpersonal and Relational Psychology along with Trauma. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.
JoAnna is the co-director of the Core Dynamics Relational Somatic Psychology Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. She has been in private practice for 30 years. Her training has been with a focus on Relational Body-Oriented Psychology , Psychodynamics, Attachment Theory, Gestalt, Internal Family Systems, BioSynthesis, Hakomi, Transpersonal Psychology, Pre & Peri Natal Issues, EMDR.
Individual Sessions
Consulting Sessions for Mind, Body, Soul and Relationship
Assisting you in regaining your lost living heart, body and soul is the primary focus of Core Dynamics.
In this transformational consulting, the work is about the evolution of consciousness and finding essential solutions for life, work and relationship. This process work is available for individuals, couples and families.
JoAnna Chartrand-Benz - Individual Consulting Sessions
Reduced Introductory sessions for 1.25 hrs.
Sliding scale rates available.
The culmination of her trainings is what she calls the Core Dynamics approach. She is the co-director the Core Dynamics Relational Somatic Institute in Santa Barbara.
She is a practitioner in private practice in Santa Barbara.
She is also in the process of writing a book together with her life time partner, Dyrian on Relational Somatic psychology called “Being in the Body” that includes the spiritual dimension of Essence and Soul. She is affiliated with the Certificate Program in Relational Somatic Psychology being taught at both Esalen in Big Sur and at the Open Center in NY in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.
Contact Information
Jo Anna Chartrand-Benz
333 Old Mill Rd #272
Santa Barbara, CA 93110
805-563-0558
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