Gretta Keene, LCSW, CST
Long before she entered the field of psychotherapy, Gretta pursued her interest in understanding different aspects of human nature. She spent two life-changing years in the Canadian wilderness, living in a cabin seventy miles from the nearest electricity and collecting stories of the people who lived “in the bush.” Then, back in the USA, she spent years as a professional performer while teaching preschool and working towards an MFA in printmaking. After touring with her original show, depicting an allegory of psychological transformation using mime, song, music and dance, she put her energy towards writing and illustrating books and novels that illuminate the inner and outer worlds of children and adults. During that time, she raised two daughters and had adventures in the land of Hollywood. By the mid-nineties, she was beginning her life as a psychoanalyst. Her work with sandplay, dramatic play and mindfulness has taken her to Sri Lanka to train counselors responding to the devastation of the tsunami and civil war and into troubled New York City high schools dominated by violence.
Bill Murray, PhD
Bill reached puberty about the time Bob Dylan signed with Columbia Records. He has carried a guitar and a paintbox with him ever since—through the radicalizing sixties in suburban New York to raising five children in rural Nova Scotia while exploring the psychological dynamics that shape religious experience. Bill sold watercolors locally, and his work is represented in the collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Bill returned to school and earned a PhD in clinical psychology. Seven years of teaching in a graduate program exposed him to a wide range of theoretical and clinical approaches to understanding and working with the human psyche. It also gave him the opportunity to use his art and music in the service of education. Before launching a private practice with Gretta, Bill served as the clinical director of a private outpatient clinic and has worked extensively with elders, couples, and those who have experienced trauma.
Gretta met Bill at a friend’s 13th birthday party where Bill played his guitar for the first time in public, serenading the gathering with Mr. Tambourine Man and the entire 26 minutes of Alice’s Restaurant.
They joined forces to raise money for the starving children of Biafra, discuss philosophy and religion in Sunday school and win best actor and actress in the high school production of “Pride and Prejudice.”
Going separate ways after graduation, they reunited decades later, discovering that they had both become spiritually-minded therapists. Still committed to increasing healing, awareness and human understanding, they combined their creative and psychological skills and knowledge to form Keene Murray Therapy.
Working in tandem as well as individually with clients, Bill and Gretta built a thriving private psychotherapy practice in Brooklyn and created a personal retreat for creativity and healing in upstate New York. From the desire to pass on to others what they have learned and continue the dialogue with kindred spirits, Mind Your Weather emerged. Their book, Your Way There, will be available in Spring, 2022.
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