My guest today is an esteemed pioneer in the world of PhotoTherapy. Judy Weiser is a psychologist, an art therapist, consultant, educator, trainer, university adjunct faculty, international lecturer, and author — she is the founder and director of the PhotoTherapy Centre in Vancouver, Canada, she is considered the world authority on the emotional significance of personal photographs.

WOW. Right?

If you are a memory keeper and/or lover of photography and personal pictures I think you’ll find our conversation especially relevant. Once we get to know Judy a little better, she will introduce us to 5 PhotoTherapy techniques which explore the various relationships that we can and do have with pictures and the process of capturing images with a camera or smart phone.

As we got deeper into our discussion I knew that I was going to need a part 2 with Judy, so you can look forward to that in coming weeks. If I’m lucky, she’ll will actually walk me through some of her techniques using a handful of my personal photos. But for today, listen and learn and see how many similarities you recognize between insights Judy shares and the reasons you choose to scrapbook or tell stories using pictures. What we do when we interact with photography and the results of these efforts can have a powerful influence on how we see and choose to see our lives, our challenges and our future selves.

This is good stuff.

Judy was recently interviewed for an article on featureshoot.com so clicking on this link will give you yet one more way to dive into this fascinating topic of using photography as a tool for self-discovery and even therapy.

How to learn more with Judy Weiser …

1. Visit her website, PhotoTherapy & Therapeutic Photography Techniques

2. Purchase her book, PhotoTherapy Techniques —my copy is due to arrive on Friday this week. IF you want to dip your toe into this book, you can download the first chapter HERE. Note: I am sharing this with Judy’s permission.

3. Request to join her Facebook Group, PhotoTherapy, Therapeutic Photography, Photo-Art-Therapy and VideoTherapy. Here’s the first paragraph from this group’s introduction: Welcome! This Group is about discussing how photographs (and creating and discussing them) can be used to help people make positive changes in their lives or the lives of others. Group discussions focus on the "why" parts of photos, not the "what" or "how" parts (the "heart" part of photographs rather than their "art" parts). LOVE this!

Photo Freedom is open for registration. You can learn and register by clicking HERE.

Podcast listeners can save $30 off registration with code ENOUGHTIME. I would LOVE to help you reign in your thousands of photos (prints and digital images) and tell more personal stories.