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MY FRIEND & THERAPIST - Dr. Kathryn Faughey (left) A sketch of her killer (right) I just wanted to provide everyone with some links to check out regarding the brutal, senseless murder of my friend and therapist, Kathryn Faughey: FRIENDS REMEMBER SLAIN THERAPIST BRUTAL KILLING OF NYC THERAPIST SAVAGE MURDER WAS PREMEDITATED SUSPECT ON THE LOOSE SUSPECT HUNTED IN THERAPIST'S DEATH MAN SOUGHT IN THERAPIST'S STABBING I spoke with 6 reporters today and an 8 second on camera blurb from me was used on the NYC local ABC/ Eyewitness News last night. I will tell you what I told them... this was a wonderful therapist. Truly gifted, sensitive and intelligent. Personally, I feel the animal that did this to her took a piece of me with her. I don't know how I would have gotten through some of the traumatic and stressful changes that have happened to me in the last 15 years without her. I am sure her other patients feel the same way. I am very upset with some people I have heard (m...

Dr. Kathryn Faughey was my therapist for 13 years. She was a wonderful, wonderful person and my friend. She helped me get my diagnosis when I was becoming disabled. And stood by me during the disability process. She helped me through my infertility treatments and the birth of my children. She helped me get through the deaths of both my parents. She kept me from harm and helped me through severe PTSD of 4 years ago. She was a deeply spiritual woman, a class act and the sort of therapist I wish everyone had. I am in shock. Please pray for her boundless spirit and her husband. She was a one of a kind doctor, friend and human being. Patient hacks therapist to death BY ALISON GENDAR, KERRY BURKE and ETHAN ROUEN DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS A cleaver-wielding patient hacked his psychologist to death in her upper East Side office Tuesday night, viciously slashed a colleague who came to her aid and then fled into the night, cops said. The psycho apparently attacked Kathryn Faughey, 57, during a ...

God, this is hard Even though I consider my anti-abuse advocacy and helping other victims my Teshuva, I will admit it is helping heal my own inner wounds in ways I would never have thought. This article helps capture that feeling. Adele Ryan McDowell Did you ever hear this story? The young woman goes up to her parish priest and says, "Father, Father, will you please pray for my therapist?" The priest inquires, "Why does your therapist need prayers, my child?" And the young woman replies, "I am in therapy for only one hour each week, but my therapist is there for hours and hours all week long." The young woman had a point. My practice of psychotherapy has been a healing endeavor for me. It has opened my heart beyond my wildest comprehensions, and it has brought forward the very best part of me. I am convinced that one of the reasons the gods directed me into this line of work was to teach me patience. You can't push a process. The work can someti...