James Ballen, Ph.D.		James Ballen, Ph.D. holds doctoral degrees in transpersonal psychology, psychoanalysis, and relational psychotherapy. He is certified in Intense Feeling Work and Hakomi, a gentle yet powerful, body-centered psychotherapy that uses mindfulness and body patterns as a doorway to unconscious core material. James has been on staff at the DiMele Center since 1986 and conducts Art of Intimate Relating workshops. The openings he experienced from love and loss enable James to guide each individual or couple past the conditioning which stands in the way of the freedom and joy of being who they truly are.