THE ORGIN
This Didn't Come From a Theory.
It Came From a Person in Crisis.
MyPersonalities® was not designed in a boardroom or a university lab. It began in a therapy room — with one person in profound distress, and a psychotherapist who refused to give up.
THE ORIGIN STORY
How MyPersonalities® began.
Around thirty years ago, Russell Kennard was working in private practice with a woman suffering from severe agoraphobia and panic attacks occurring every twenty minutes. She had already seen two psychiatrists and three psychologists. Nothing had worked. By the time she came to Russell, she and her husband had considered a suicide pact if her life couldn't change.
A client no one could help
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Russell became a detective. He began asking not what she thought — but what she felt. He wrote each mood on a separate sheet of paper and spread them across the floor. He gave each one a name and a colour. He began to see how they connected — and how one could lead into another. Over thirteen months of careful work, something entirely new emerged: a map of the inner personality. When this client learned to navigate that map — to see which personas were running her life and why — her most extreme and destructive states transformed into helpful personas.
The detective work begins
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Russell spent the next three decades testing and refining this discovery with research volunteers facing anger, depression, gambling addiction, bulimia, chronic anxiety and more. The result is MyPersonalities® — a program that gives anyone access to what was previously only possible through professional psychotherapy.
Thirty years of refinement
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“Within two seconds she transformed from a capable adult into what appeared to be a frightened three to five year old child. Not a symptom — a completely different way of being.”
Russell Kennard
Research Psychotherapist
Masters Degree in Psychology
Research Psychotherapist
30+ years in private practice
Author — MyPersonalities®: The Journey
Author — The 8 Day Self-Esteem Program
Developer & Author — People Management Certificate IV
Author & Developer of MyPersonalities®
A research psychotherapist who looks for what actually works.
ABOUT RUSSELL
Russell Kennard holds a Masters Degree in Psychology and has spent his career at the intersection of conventional and unconventional approaches to human development. As a research psychotherapist, he doesn't accept that the standard toolkit is good enough. He looks for what actually works — and spent decades refining it until it did.
His guiding principle is simple: the person sitting in front of you already has all the information they need about themselves. The psychotherapist's job — and the program's job — is simply to help them see it.
Training and specialisations
THE PHILOSOPHY
What drives everything Russell built.
MyPersonalities® is not built on a single theory. It draws from thirty years of working with real people, across multiple frameworks and disciplines — always guided by the same core belief, which is self-empowerment.
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