orange and sandalwood.
Even as she is working, Dr.
Mandell often finds herself being
healed, she said. "I work in a med-
itative state, to be sensitive to a
person's levels of energy."
Dr. Havi Mandell came to the
Circle of the Sacred Light because
"I wanted a place where I could
do this kind of work and not be
viewed as weird." Outside her of-
fice, though, there isn't much
about her life anyone would find
strange.
She belongs to Adat Shalom
Synagogue, her husband is an at-
torney, she loves M&Ms and
watching "Third Rock From the
Sun." Also, she confesses, `Tm a
java junkie."
At home, her son and daugh-
ter have delirious fun vowing to
"do some Reiki" on the family
cats, and during a disagreement
with Mom at least one of the chil-
dren is bound to say, "And you
call yourself a psychotherapist?'
Dr. Mandell takes it all in with
a sense of humor. "You have to be
able to laugh," she said. "You can't
take everything too seriously."

woman came complaining
of a tightness in her chest.
Dr. Carole Katz asked her
/)
to give the tightness a
shape and a color. The client
chose a basketball.
Dr. Katz asked her to imagine
air slowly leaking out of a hole in
the basketball, until it had all
gone, and the pain vanished.
Other times, she'll used guid-
ed imagery to take clients to "a
safe place, perhaps a beautiful is-
land." The journey will continue
something like this: "You're on
a long walk, you're feeling relaxed
and peaceful, and you come to a
meadow filled with flowers of
every color and shape." The client
will then take a balloon from his
pocket, put all his anger within,
send it off into the air and it's
gone forever.
When not at Circle of the Sa-
cred Light, Dr. Katz works for an
outpatient group at a local men-
tal and substance abuse treat-
ment center. She also spends a
lot of time preparing a Circle
newsletter, with a circulation of
1,100. She signs her messages,
"Peace & Love."
Clients come for everything
from individual therapy to cou-
ples groups. And while there is
some demand for traditional care
— and Dr. Katz is willing to do
whatever the client needs — it's
/— the more "New Age" methods of
healing that are in the biggest de-
mand and continue to grow in
popularity.
Dr. Katz explains: "Most peo-
ple who call here know it's not go-
ing to be exactly mainstream." ❑

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