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Dancing on the Edge: A Cautionary Tale About Spiritual Discipline

by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Mar 29, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Fasting, Happiness, Joy, Sexuality, Spirituality

If you’re going to walk up to the edge of life and look over into the precipice, you’d better know how to find your way back. Many of you know about my lifelong passion for fasting and have read my books and research. I’ve long credited fasting for all the flourishing...

Mystic Psychotherapy: When Psychotherapists are Mystics

by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Mar 20, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Counseling, Psychotherapy, Sacred

What it’s like to have a therapist who has vision into unseen realms. Modern psychotherapy presents itself as a scientific and clinical discipline—grounded in diagnosis, evidence-based modalities, and professional ethics. Yet beneath the language of manuals,...

How Fasting Rebuilds You From the Inside Out

by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Mar 14, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Fasting, Sacred, Spirituality

The New Science on Fasting For most of recorded human history, people fasted not because they understood the biology behind it, but because they discovered — through experience, through tradition, through the intimation of something ancient and reliable — that going...

Starving the Disease: Valter Longo’s Research Into Fasting and Alzheimer’s

by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Mar 14, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Dementia, Fasting, Nutrition

For decades, the dominant narrative around Alzheimer’s disease has been one of inevitability — a slow, relentless unraveling with no meaningful way to intervene. Pharmaceutical research has poured billions into amyloid-clearing drugs with discouraging results, and the...

Short Term Extended Fasting: The Difference Between Three-day and Five-day Fasts

by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Mar 14, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Fasting, Nutrition

Water-only fasting is one of the oldest practices in human history — undertaken across every major civilization for spiritual, medicinal, and ritual purposes long before science had any framework for understanding what it was doing to the body. Today, that framework...

Understanding LSD and Depression Research

by San Jose Counseling Therapist | Feb 1, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Depression, Psychotherapy

The Ultimate Consciousness Drug That is Experiencing a Resurgence Research into using lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to treat depression is being renewed. LSD was extensively investigated in humans in the 1950s and ‘60s and was shown to attenuate depressive...
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RANDI FREDRICKS, PH.D., LMFT

Randi Fredricks, Ph.D is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, licensed to practice in California MFC47803. As a psychotherapist, best-selling author, and published researcher, she provides counseling and psychotherapy services online from her private practice in San Jose, California.  She has written books on mental health and alternative treatments, including Healing & Wholeness: Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Mental Health, Fasting: An Exceptional Human Experience, Complementary and Alternative Treatments for Anxiety, and Complementary and Alternative Treatments for Depression. She has conducted and published research on communication, relationships, and fasting in mental health.

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