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Catherine Johnson is a registered Clinical Psychologist who graduated from UCT.  She has been working as a therapist for 13 years.  Her psychotherapy training and orientation is predominantly in Self Psychology, a branch of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.  She was Chair of the Cape Town Psychoanalytic Self Psychology Group for several years.  Catherine became interested in the integration of psychotherapy and spirituality, and Buddhism in particular, in 2000 and convened a group of psychotherapists developing this in their work. She presented a paper exploring this theme through the work of Ken Wilber at the National Self Psychology Conference in 2004.  She has completed the Foundation Course of the U.K-based Buddhist Psychotherapy Karuna Institute.