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Before completing my Ph.D in clinical psychology, I was an adventure sports guide, translator, travel host and fitness professional in Asia, the Caribbean, French Polynesia, Hawaii and Latin America. Move Your Heart is the logical and natural integration of my lifelong love of moving in and being moved by the natural world and my devotion to helping others achieve mind-body coherence and integration.
After completing graduate school, I worked as a clinical psychologist using an active, collaborative, and direct approach to processing traumatic life experiences to an adaptive resolution. For my Ph.D. dissertation I examined the relationship between various types and dimensions of childhood trauma on later physical pain and functioning in adult women.
I am trained in EMDR, AEDP and Lifespan Integration therapy. These approaches were informed by my background in object relations and attachment theory, mindfulness meditation, and somatic therapy. My clients reported feeling more peaceful, confident, creative and calm in their daily lives. I have learned powerful and effective approaches to healing from a number of gifted and visionary teachers. I was fortunate to have been able to share these methods in the private practice setting for 25 years. I am excited to bring this experience and training to a new format and setting as a wellness coach. I am no longer offering services as a licensed clinical psychologist. In the next few years I will be focussing on neural-plasticity. optimal brain health, and functional medicine.