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"When you have no words for your feelings, for what happened to you, for what is missing in you, we listen to the inner resonance - of your inchoate secrets - as it lives in your body. We help you to sense and amplify this inner resonance until its movement comes close enough to the surface of your being to enter your consciousness. But we also listen carefully to your words and are touched by them when they come from a depth of your being that no one can put a hand on. We invite you to surrender to the spirit of your body and the body of your spirit - and in so doing, to embrace your true self." — Robert Lewis, M.D.
My work
In my work, I listen to what the client says verbally and through their body. I pay special attention to client's unspoken words that are expressed through subtle movements and gestures. Through empathic attunement with the client, I become aware of what they are experiencing in the here and now of the therapeutic process, as well as in their past. I am also impacted by the client's painful experiences and resonate with their feeling states. I provide a safe container and become a witness to the client's painful past, through which a facilitating environment is created for them to heal the wounds of his or her traumatic past. The client can then become free of their earlier experiences and can feel joy and pleasure of living and being alive, loving and being loved.
My work is deep and relational. Most of us were hurt, harmed, wounded, and/or possibly traumatized in early relationships (mostly with significant caretakers). It thus, takes a relationship to heal us, a relationship in which we are seen, heard, and felt unconditionally and non-judgmentally with respect, empathy, and love for who we truly are. It is within such a relationship that our early defenses can be worked through, and our early psychological wounds healed. The results are spontaneity, motility, benevolence, freedom, and love, which are all characteristics of healthy children, and adults who did not grow up in emotionally impoverished environments.
Background & Training
My interest and passion in psychology goes back to several decades ago when I was an undergraduate. I began my own (ongoing) Bioenergetic analysis in early 2000, and subsequently joined the rigorous four-year training program in the Florida Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis in 2005 and finished in 2009. I began my graduate studies in Clinical and Somatic Psychology in 2008 at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute (now part of The Chicago School for Professional Psychology), and graduated in 2012.
I am a Certified Bioenergetic Therapist (CBT) with over 17 years of experience and am intimately familiar with, and have had training in many modalities within the field of Somatic Psychotherapy, including Sensory Awareness, Authentic Movement, Bodynamics, Focusing, EMDR, Hakomi, Somatic Experiencing, Gestalt, etc. I specialize in treating developmental and shock traumas.
Bioenergetic analysis and somatic psychotherapy belong to the group of psychodynamic psychotherapies. As a bioenergetic analyst and somatic psychotherapist, in my work, I also employ interventions based on object relations theory, self-psychology, conflict and ego psychology, existential and narrative theories and therapies, Gestalt, as well as cognitive and behavioral techniques. My work is also guided by latest results and discoveries from the field of neuroscience. I am also an active researcher in integration and incorporation of recent neuroscience discoveries and findings in psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic techniques.
I am on the peer review board of International Body Psychotherapy Journal (IBPJ), and have published papers in the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis (IIBA) and International Body Psychotherapy (IBP) journals. I am a member of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis (IIBA), the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP), and California Association of Marriage and Family Therapist (CAMFT). I am on the editorial board of the IIBA Journal and am on the peer review board of the IBPJ.
My life prior to psychotherapy
I worked as an electrical engineer for nearly 30 years (in academia and industry) and left the field of engineering in 2014 altogether to follow my passions in somatic (body oriented) psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. I was an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, a founding member of Malleable Technologies (acquired by PMC-Sierra), an early employee at various successful startup companies (leading to initial public offering - IPO, or acquisitions), and an adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California and UC Irvine. I have also held senior research and development positions at various prestigious companies including AT&T Bell Laboratories, Qualcomm, and Broadcom. I am a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and have published over twenty-four papers in refereed journals and conferences and have five awarded patents.
Selected Publications
Psychology
Patents
Electrical Engineering
In my work, I listen to what the client says verbally and through their body. I pay special attention to client's unspoken words that are expressed through subtle movements and gestures. Through empathic attunement with the client, I become aware of what they are experiencing in the here and now of the therapeutic process, as well as in their past. I am also impacted by the client's painful experiences and resonate with their feeling states. I provide a safe container and become a witness to the client's painful past, through which a facilitating environment is created for them to heal the wounds of his or her traumatic past. The client can then become free of their earlier experiences and can feel joy and pleasure of living and being alive, loving and being loved.
My work is deep and relational. Most of us were hurt, harmed, wounded, and/or possibly traumatized in early relationships (mostly with significant caretakers). It thus, takes a relationship to heal us, a relationship in which we are seen, heard, and felt unconditionally and non-judgmentally with respect, empathy, and love for who we truly are. It is within such a relationship that our early defenses can be worked through, and our early psychological wounds healed. The results are spontaneity, motility, benevolence, freedom, and love, which are all characteristics of healthy children, and adults who did not grow up in emotionally impoverished environments.
Background & Training
My interest and passion in psychology goes back to several decades ago when I was an undergraduate. I began my own (ongoing) Bioenergetic analysis in early 2000, and subsequently joined the rigorous four-year training program in the Florida Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis in 2005 and finished in 2009. I began my graduate studies in Clinical and Somatic Psychology in 2008 at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute (now part of The Chicago School for Professional Psychology), and graduated in 2012.
I am a Certified Bioenergetic Therapist (CBT) with over 17 years of experience and am intimately familiar with, and have had training in many modalities within the field of Somatic Psychotherapy, including Sensory Awareness, Authentic Movement, Bodynamics, Focusing, EMDR, Hakomi, Somatic Experiencing, Gestalt, etc. I specialize in treating developmental and shock traumas.
Bioenergetic analysis and somatic psychotherapy belong to the group of psychodynamic psychotherapies. As a bioenergetic analyst and somatic psychotherapist, in my work, I also employ interventions based on object relations theory, self-psychology, conflict and ego psychology, existential and narrative theories and therapies, Gestalt, as well as cognitive and behavioral techniques. My work is also guided by latest results and discoveries from the field of neuroscience. I am also an active researcher in integration and incorporation of recent neuroscience discoveries and findings in psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic techniques.
I am on the peer review board of International Body Psychotherapy Journal (IBPJ), and have published papers in the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis (IIBA) and International Body Psychotherapy (IBP) journals. I am a member of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis (IIBA), the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP), and California Association of Marriage and Family Therapist (CAMFT). I am on the editorial board of the IIBA Journal and am on the peer review board of the IBPJ.
My life prior to psychotherapy
I worked as an electrical engineer for nearly 30 years (in academia and industry) and left the field of engineering in 2014 altogether to follow my passions in somatic (body oriented) psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. I was an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, a founding member of Malleable Technologies (acquired by PMC-Sierra), an early employee at various successful startup companies (leading to initial public offering - IPO, or acquisitions), and an adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California and UC Irvine. I have also held senior research and development positions at various prestigious companies including AT&T Bell Laboratories, Qualcomm, and Broadcom. I am a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and have published over twenty-four papers in refereed journals and conferences and have five awarded patents.
Selected Publications
Psychology
- Shahri, H. (2024). Character Structure, an Object Relations Perspective. Submitted to the International Institute for Bioenergetic analysis (IIBA) Journal.
- Shahri, H. (2023). Character Structure, an Object Relations Perspective. Presented at the United States Association of Body Psychotherapy (USABP) Conference, San Francisco, CA.
- Shahri H. (2023). What Happens after Detachment from Relational Trauma. The Clinical Journal of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis, 2023, (33), 43-54.
- Shahri, H. (2022). On anxiety, a relational somatic perspective. Submitted to the international body psychotherapy journal (IBPJ).
- Shahri, H. (2022). Life, entropy, information, emotions, and trauma. International Body Psychotherapy Journal 21(1), 87-104.
- Shahri, H. (2021). The Present Moment, Trauma, and Relational Somatic Psychotherapy. International Body Psychotherapy Journal 20(1), 57-65.
- Shahri, H. (2020). Integration of Traumatic Memories. International Body Psychotherapy Journal 18(2), 106-115.
- Shahri H. (2019). What Happens after Detachment from Relational Trauma. Accepted for publication in the Clinical Journal of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis (Long version).
- Shahri, H. (2019). Attachment to Relational Trauma. The Clinical Journal of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis, 2019(29), 99-107.
- Shahri, H. (2018). Rewriting Traumatic Memories during the Reconsolidation Phase. Presented at the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy Conference, Santa Barbara, CA.
- Shahri, H. (2018). Examining traumatic memories: re-encoding and reconsolidation. The Clinical Journal of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis, 2018(28), 45-63.
- Shahri, H. (2017). Traumatic memories, a neuroscience perspective. The Clinical Journal of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis, 2017(27), 49-69.
- Shahri, H. (2014). Toward an integrative model for developmental trauma. International Body Psychotherapy Journal, 13(1), 52-67.
- Shahri, H. (2014). Analysis of developmental trauma. The Clinical Journal of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis, 2014(24), 41-62.
Patents
- Babak Forutanpour, Homayoun Shahri, Farhan M Aziz, Maria E Romero Jolliff, and Ronen R Stern,"Extending the battery life of a portable electronic device", patent number US 8,665,214, US patent office, awarded in 2014 to Qualcomm Corporation.
- Dinesh Ramakrishnan, Homayoun Shahri, and Song Wang, "Suppressing Noise in an Audio Signal", patent number US 8,571,231, US patent office, awarded in 2013 to Qualcomm Corporation.
- Babak Forutanpour, and Homayoun Shahri, "Context Based Messaging for Wireless Communications", patent number US 8,385,975, US patent office, awarded in 2013 to Qualcomm Corporation.
- Behrooz Rezvani, Dale Smith, Sam Heidari, and Homayoun Shahri, "Method and apparatus for an X-DSL modem supporting multiple X-DSL line codes", patent number 6,959,036, US patent office, awarded in 2004 to Ikanos Communications.
- Curtis Abbott, and Homayoun Shahri, "Count/Address Generation Circuitry", patent number 6,601,158, US patent office, awarded July 2003 to PMC-Sierra.
Electrical Engineering
- H. Shahri, "Mapping DSP Algorithms to DSP Architectures", Invited paper, published in the ACM Queue Magazine, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 32-41, March 2004.
- H. Shahri, "The Blurring Lines Between Hardware and Software", Invited paper, published in the ACM Queue Magazine, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 42-48, April 2003.
- H. Shahri, et. al. "On Parallel implementation of G.975, (255, 239) RS code", presented at the Global Signal Processing Conference, GSPx, Dallas Tx. Mar 2003.
- H. Shahri, et. al. "On Efficient Implementation of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)", presented at the Global Signal Processing Conference, GSPx, Dallas Tx. Mar 2003.
- H. Shahri, "Comments on Inversionless decoding of both errors and erasures of Reed-Solomon codes", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communications, Jan. 1999.
- N. Mohsenian, H. Shahri, and N. Nasrabadi, "Scalar Vector Quantization of Medical Images," special issue of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 5, no. 2, pp.386-392, Feb. 1996, and in proceedings of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Medical Imaging, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 1995.
- N. Mohsenian and H. Shahri, "MR Image Compression using Scalar Vector Quantization," in proceedings of SPIE conf., Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 1995.
- R. Laroia, H. Shahri and T. Alonso, "On TB-SVQ based Motion Compensated DCT Coding of Video Conference Sequences," in proceedings of Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Austin, TX, Nov. 1994.
- R. Laroia, H. Shahri, T. Alonso, "A Fixed Rate Video Coder for Teleconferencing," in proceedings of the Int.Symp. on Information Theory, ISIT, Trondheim, Norway, July, 1994.
- S. Narayanan, H. Shahri, et. al., "Fast and Efficient Techniques for Motion Estimation using Subband Analysis," in proceedings of Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Austin, TX, Nov. 1994.
- H. Shahri, et. al., "3-D Subband Coding of Videoconference Sequences," in proceedings of Int. Conf. on Signal Processing Applications and Technology (ICSPAT), Dallas, TX, Oct. 1994.
- G. L. Feng, K. K. Tzeng, and H. Shahri, "A Generalization of the Forney Formula," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (submitted July 1994).
- H. Shahri, et. al., "Subband Coding of Videoconference Sequences at 384 KBPS," in proceedings of Int. Conf. on Signal Processing Applications and Technology (ICSPAT), Santa Clara, CA, Sept. 1993.
- H. Shahri and J. Hartung, "A 3-D Subband Coder for Teleconferencing at 384 KBPS," in proceedings of the IEEE Int. Symp. on Information Theory, San Antonio, TX, Jan. 1993.
- D. Youtkus, H. Shahri, and M. Luo, "A Low Delay JPEG based Image Coder using a single AT&T DSP32C," in proceedings of Int. Conf. on Signal Processing Applications and Technology (ICSPAT), Boston, MA, Nov. 1992.
- H. Shahri and K. K. Tzeng, "On Error and Erasure Decoding of Cyclic Codes," IEEE transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 38 pp. 489-496, March 1992, and in proceedings of the Int. Symp. on Information Theory, ISIT, San Diego, CA, Jan. 1990.
- H. Shahri, "DFT, Convolution and Error Correcting Codes," in proceedings of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ASSP), San Francisco, CA, March 1992.
- H. Shahri, K. K. Tzeng, and J. C. M. Janssen, "On Error and Erasure Decoding of Cyclic Codes upto the Roos Bound," in proceedings of the Int. Symp. on Information Theory, ISIT, Budapest, Hungary, June 1991.
- H. Shahri, K. K. Tzeng, and G. L. Feng, "On Evaluating Errors and Erasures of Cyclic Codes," in proceedings of the Int. Symp.on Information Theory and its Applications, ISITA, Waikiki, Hawaii, Nov. 1990.
- H. Shahri, K. K. Tzeng, and G. L. Feng, "On Bounding the Minimum Distance of Cyclic Codes," in proceedings of the Int. Symp. on Information Theory, ISIT, Kobe, Japan, June 1988.