Registered Polarity Practitioner, Certified Polarity Educator, Certified Focusing Trainer
CT MT (#00418)

Professional Objectives: Teaching workshops on emotional clarity/self-acceptance, energy balancing techniques, lifestyle change and meditation; working with clients individually using Intuitive Energy Balancing and Focusing modalities; being part of an integrative medical team working on body/mind/spirit approaches to health.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN HEALTH THERAPIES

CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR MASSAGE, Connecticut, January 2006 to November, 2007
Instructor, Energetic Foundations, October, 2007 Introduction to Focusing, Weekend
Workshop.

PRIVATE PRACTICE, Durham, NC and beginning in August 2006, New London, CT
June 1990 to present Modalities: Focusing, Energy Balancing Therapy (including Polarity), Massage Therapy, Meditation. Experience in working with clients who are: preparing and recovering from surgery; grieving the death of family members; undergoing chemotherapy and radiation for cancer; recovering from emotional and physical traumas; suffering from injuries and accidents; and dealing with chronic pain; and with eating challenges.


DUKE UNIVERSITY DIET AND FITNESS CENTER, Durham, North Carolina, January 1997 to August, 2005
Individual Focusing and Polarity sessions, Weekly Meditation and Lifestyle Change
Classes and Quarterly Day-long Workshops

MILLER-MOTT TECHNICAL COLLEGE MASSAGE THERAPY SCHOOL, Cary, North Carolina, 2005-2006, Instructor, Energy Medicine: The Chakras.

OBESITY EXPERT PANEL, New York, NY, January 27-28 2006, presenter of Mindful Eating exercise and participant in 10-person panel sponsored by an international pharmaceutical company for clinical trials.

EFFICACY OF MINDFULNESS MEDITATION AS TREATMENT FOR BINGE EATING DISORDER STUDY 2002, Durham, NC, Duke University, Principal Investigator, Dr. Ruth Quillian- Wolever, Duke University and Dr. Jean Kristeller, Indiana State University. Meditation Instructor for Experimental Group and Pre and Post Study Interviewer, 2005 Pre Study Interviews.

TRIANGLE HOSPICE, Durham, North Carolina, 1990-1993
Massage and stress reduction with hospice patients and their primary-care givers.
In-service trainings for staff on using touch

SOUTHEAST REGIONAL ECONOMIC JUSTICE NETWORK WELLNESS TEAM, 1995 to 1999
Stress reduction, massage and spiritual support for low-wage workers at annual
conferences and on-site with member organizations

EDUCATION
CERTIFIED FOCUSING TRAINER, January, 2006
CERTIFIED POLARITY EDUCATOR, 2003 and REGISTERED POLARITY PRACTITIONER, June 2000, 615 hours
NORTH CAROLINA LICENSED MASSAGE AND BODYWORK THERAPIST (#821), June, 1990, 550 hours
MASTER OF ARTS Economics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1981
BACHELOR OF ARTS, Psychology, Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, North Carolina, 1973

GROUPS, CLASSES and WORKSHOPS

Day-Long and Weekend Workshops
Using Your Thoughts and Your Imagination to Create Health (Duke)
Healing With Touch (Triangle Hospice)
Practicing Peace: Taoist Meditation (Community)
Polarity Workshops (Community)
Focusing Workshop (Registered Polarity Practitioner Programs)
Energetic Anatomy and Physiology of Liver and Pancreas (Registered Polarity Practitioner Program)

Two-hour Workshops (Duke Diet and Fitness Center)
Getting Clear: What is Self-Acceptance
Exploring Self-Acceptance and Intimacy Through Meditation
Exercising Your Emotions

One-hour Weekly Classes (Duke Diet and Fitness Center)
Understanding Why We Overeat
Exploring Internal Motivation
Eating Trigger Foods Mindfully
Focusing on Emotional Clarity
Mindfulness Meditation
Eating With Awareness
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Guided Imagery
Loving Kindness Meditation
Guided Self-Hypnosis
Eating Just One Raisin
Exercising Your Emotions

Focusing Telephone Classes:
Learning Focusing Levels I-IV (each level a five week teleclass), assisting Ann Weiser Cornell author of The Power of Focusing, 2005-2006.


OTHER PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

WORLD IN BALANCE SPIRITUAL TRAININGS by Kay Cordell Whitaker, author of The Reluctant Shaman, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1994 to present
SOMATIC EXPERIENCING (Healing from Trauma through Bodywork), Weeklong Trainings with John Chitty, Colorado School of Energy Studies, 1997 and 1998.
OMEGA INSTITUTE STRESS REDUCTION AND MINDFULNESS TRAINING, Led by John Kabat-Zinn, University of Massachusetts, Stress Reduction Clinic, 1995.
INDEPENDENT STUDY through various meditation retreats and self-study of the works of Stephen Levine, Carolyn Myss, Donald Neal Walsh, and Buddhist and Taoist Traditions

REFERENCES

Howard Eisenson, MD, Director, Duke Diet and Fitness Center
Ronnie Kolotkin, PhD, Obesity and Quality of Life Consultant