
Executive Director at Centering for Wellness, Inc.
Rochester, New York Area

Executive Director at Centering for Wellness, Inc.
Rochester, New York Area
Psychiatric and community health nurse clinician, certified hypnotherapist, Reiki Master/Teacher and certified medium who extensively and originally practices hands-on healing, alternative and western medicine, grief counseling, women's empowerment and spirituality, recovery and regression therapies, and offers a uniquely integrative strategy for a development and empowerment health philosophy. Services include but are not limited to energetic healing, past-life regression, Reiki, hypnotherapy, therapeutic journaling, intuitive and spiritual development, shamanic and archetypal healing, dream work, meditation, relaxation, visualization, conflict resolution and goal achievement. Additional specialties include related workshop and small group intensives including women's self-healing and spirituality groups, holistic and new leadership skills training for health care providers. Individual, couples, groups, classes, and related products for empowerment, development, healing and achievement.
Small group dynamics, assertiveness training, creative writing, guided meditation, codependency and inner child recovery, behavioral therapies, motivational coaching
(Alternative Medicine industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
A not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to promote individual and provider initiative within all integrative components to achieve well-being, increase creativity and self-responsibility, and sustain healthy lifestyle and coping responses within community systems. Particular holistic and complementary medicine practices such as relaxation, visualization, hypnosis, journaling and energetic healing that enhance self-care, recover self-esteem and independence, and promote caring for self and others will be taught. The vision is to promote personal and community commitment and leadership along with enhanced lifestyle balancing to bring about constructive, necessary change for the betterment of all.
(Alternative Medicine industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
A not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to promote individual and provider initiative within all integrative components to achieve well-being, increase creativity and self-responsibility, and sustain healthy lifestyle and coping responses within community systems. Particular holistic and complementary medicine practices such as relaxation, visualization, hypnosis, journaling and energetic healing that enhance self-care, recover self-esteem and independence, and promote caring for self and others will be taught. The vision is to promote personal and community commitment and leadership along with enhanced lifestyle balancing to bring about constructive, necessary change for the betterment of all.
(Alternative Medicine industry)
1987 — Present (22 years )
I founded Centering for Self-Healing, Empowerment and Development in the greater Rochester, NY area in 1987, a multifaceted holistic practice that includes corporate and human services training, specialty areas of hypnotherapy, meditation, journaling practices, grief counseling, recovery therapies, women's spirituality, intuitive and spiritual counseling and development classes, and product development of numerous guided meditation and hypnosis audios self-help books and courses on integrative healing, spirituality and intuition, empowerment and achievement.
BSN , Nursing, second major English, minor Theatre , 1971 — 1974
certified hypnotherapist from the Hypnodyne Institue 1989, Level III Reiki Master through the Usui School 2000
integrative healing, alternative health, women's spirituality, writing, publishing, hiking, classical music, Jungian psychology, entrepreneurship, spirituality, small business management, the American Civil War, history, literature, metaphysical, piano, cross country skiing, native American and Celtic shamanism, poetry, plays including Shaw and Shakespeare
International Association of Reiki Practitioners, Nurse Healers, Genesee Valley Nurses Association, International Association of Counselors and Therapists, Cambridge Who's Who, American Association of Professional Hypnotherapists, Healthways, American Association of Behavioral Therapists
Psychiatric Nurse Clinician Level III University of Rochester 1984, Florence R. Hallauer award for outstanding psychiatric nurse 1982, Rochester Ebusiness finalist Entrepreneur of the year 2004, PErsident LIvingston County Council of Nurse Practitioners 1974-76, columnist Nature's Wisdom Magazine 2004-2006